Ritzy Colorado ski resort Carbondale warns it is buckling under influx of Venezuelan migrants who are sleeping five to a CAR after word got around that town had lots of jobs available

Venezuelan migrants are flocking to an upscale ski resort town in Colorado without a homeless shelter after hearing rumors that there are plenty of jobs to offer.

Major U.S. cities are seeing a huge influx of migrants, and Denver — with 2,600 migrants in the city's shelter system and 200 on the streets — isn't the only hotbed in Colorado hit by the crisis.

Carbondale is a home rule municipality in Garfield County, Colorado, with a population of approximately 6,434. The city is a 30-minute drive from Aspen's luxury ski resort – located in Colorado's Rocky Mountains.

The expensive community, described as a small town with a big heart, is being flooded by at least 125 Venezuelan migrants who have traveled to the remote mountain neighborhood after hearing of its plentiful job opportunities.

However, the city is known for its luxury ski chalets and is already facing a housing crisis. So the newcomers have no choice but to sleep outside in their car.

The cheapest real estate currently on the market in the small town costs $720,000, with most homes worth around $2 million, according to Zillow.

Although there are small homeless shelters nearby in Aspen, they are usually overcrowded and have long waiting lists.

Even as the weather drops to a minimum of 10 degrees at night, migrants are piling in to sleep in the vehicles they drove to the mountain town.

Edgar Hernandez told it 9news that he lives in the back of his Honda with four of his other friends, and said there is another car with five more.

Hernandez and his brother bought the car with several weeks' worth of salary each, but they decided it was worth it to travel from Denver to the mountains, where they heard there were more jobs on offer.

“If you need me to clean a bathroom, I will,” Hernandez said. “If you want me to wash your car, just tell me and I'll wash it quickly. What we want is to work.'

The arrival of 125 migrants has increased the number of homeless people in the city by 500 percent, putting a significant strain on the city's resources.

“We don't want to become a destination for people,” Mayor Ben Bohmfalk said. 'We can't take more people than we have now. We are really beyond what we can handle.”

Bohmfalk said he asked the state last week for more than $200,000 to help house and feed the migrants, stressing that the city does not have the facilities to take them.

“We don't want people to see these stories and think, oh, Carbondale is the place to go. They are very welcoming,” Bohmfalk said. “We are absolutely not equipped to hire more people.”

The city opened an emergency shelter for up to 60 people in a building with extra space. The rest of the homeless sleep in the parking lot.

The mayor is concerned that the newcomers won't survive the frigid weather: “It's below 10 degrees at night, and it will stay that way for the next few months,” Bohmfalk said. “If people sleep outside in those conditions, they might not make it.”

Even with the challenging circumstances facing Carbondale's new immigrant population, things are apparently better than their previous lives. “Life is already much better here than in Venezuela,” Hernandez said. 'A thousand times better.'

The migrants began pouring in a month ago, and Bohmfalk said at the time, “We have a long history of welcoming immigrants into our communities and they are a critical part of our workforce.”

However, as more and more newcomers arrive, the mayor emphasizes that the city cannot handle this increase in homelessness. “We're trying to be human beings. At the same time, we have to maintain some guardrails and set some limits on what we commit to, because we just can't be the destination for more people.”

Böhmfalk said CBS he is disappointed with the lack of support from state and federal agencies.

“When we talk to our supporters at the Department of Local Affairs and say, 'Is there state support for this or federal support, is there an agency that will step in if this is happening in a community?' They basically said 'No.'

In October, Denver's liberal government asked officials in border cities to hand out flyers telling asylum seekers to stay away from Colorado's capital after 21,000 new migrants arrived this year.

The flyers included messages such as: “Denver's resources are depleted,” “the city cannot provide long-term shelter” and “housing in Denver is very expensive and there are not many affordable housing options available.”

In an effort to ease the crisis, Denver's local government plans to limit the length of time individual migrants can stay in temporary shelters while extending the time limit for families.