Linda Momborquette, a Portland health and human services employee, puts a sheet over a cot inside the Portland Expo on Friday.

Hannah Dow straightens a cot inside the Portland Expo on Friday. Around 270 asylum seeker will be moved into the Portland Expo starting Monday. Dow is the daughter of Kristen Dow, the director of health and human services for the Portland, and was helping set up.

PORTLAND, ME - APRIL 7: Kristin Dow, the director of health and human services for Portland, center, chats with her daughter, Hannah Dow, right, and fellow DHHS employees as they unbox the plastic totes that asylum seekers will be given to keep their belongings in at the Portland Expo on Friday, April 7, 2023. Early next week about 270 asylum seekers will be moved into the Expo. (Staff photo by Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer)

Asylum seekers begin arriving at the emergency temporary shelter at the Portland Expo on Monday.

Landriche Kalamba, 33, holds her daughters’ hands while speaking to a reporter outside of the Portland Expo on Monday. Kalamba was one of about 270 asylum seekers, all of them families, moved into the Expo on Monday.

Asylum seekers begin arriving at the emergency temporary shelter at the Portland Expo on Monday.

Portland moved about 270 people, all of them families, into the Expo on Monday which has a max capacity of 300.

Asylum seekers begin arriving at the emergency temporary shelter at the Portland Expo on Monday.

Andre Muka, center, listens to a city employee talk to them about entering the temporary shelter as he and other asylum seekers begin arriving at the emergency temporary shelter at the Portland Expo on Monday.