Colorado Gov. Polis says the state will no longer bus asylum-seekers to New York City and Chicago after the mayors of both cities demanded a halt to the policy.
Migrants rest at a makeshift shelter Friday in Denver. Over the past month, nearly 4,000 immigrants, almost all Venezuelans, have arrived unannounced in the frigid city, with nowhere to stay and sometimes wearing T-shirts and flip-flops.DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis said Colorado will no longer bus asylum-seekers to New York City and Chicago after the mayors of both cities demanded a halt to the policy.
last week. He declined to comment Monday, and his office would not say how many migrants had been sent away by bus. "Although we share the concerns of accommodating the flood of asylum seekers, overburdening other cities is not the solution," Lightfoot and Adams wrote last week in a letter to Polis, according toPolis' office said the migrants who arrived in Denver werefor their final destinations because of bad weather that prompted transportation services to be canceled.
By Sunday afternoon, nearly 600 migrants were housed in Denver shelters and another 600 were in partner emergency shelters, city officials said. About 50 migrants arrived in Denver Saturday night, but the number arriving in the city on a daily basis has cooled in the past week, they said. They expect another surge at some point.
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