SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — A backpack filled with clothes was the only thing 18-year-old Darleen brought with her from her native Guatemala.

She left Guatemala on May 7 with her 57-year-old father, walking and taking buses until they reached the U.S.-Mexico border where they were detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

They spent about a day and a half inside a detention center when they were told to get inside a border patrol van, then placed on a Greyhound bus.

She said she was surprised when they arrived at the Greyhound bus station in San Bernardino. She doesn’t have family in San Bernardino and doesn’t know anyone in the area.

According to the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, since May 14 more than 500 asylum seekers have been dropped off at the Greyhound station in San Bernardino.

About 90 percent of the asylum seekers dropped off at this bus depot are from Guatemala, but they also saw asylum seekers from Honduras, El Salvador, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and one person from India.

We contacted CBP regarding the recent drop-offs of migrants that have occurred at the San Bernardino bus hub.

They told us that there have been a record number of apprehensions and that large groups and high numbers in Border Patrol custody have placed them at a breaking point.

Joyce C. Golosino, the supervisory Border Patrol agent with the U.S. Border Patrol-El Centro Sector said “family units are being released at full service bus stations, so they can reach their final desired destination as they wait for their immigration court hearing. So we make sure that they have a shower, we make sure that they have clean clothes.”

Erika Paz with the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, a group has been picking up and helping asylum seekers as they arrive at the bus depot.

“So we make sure that they have a shower, we make sure that they have clean clothes,” Paz said.

She was busy sorting out donations, so they can be distributed to the people coming across the border. But it's not just clothes.

“We are making sure that everybody leaves with a watch, so they can keep an eye so when they have to change buses," Paz said. 

As for Darleen, she leaves San Bernardino grateful to all the people who have reached out to them in their time of need.