Migrants congregate outside Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan on Aug. 2, 2023, waiting for placement inside a shelter. While the city has accommodated tens of thousands of migrants since an influx that began two years ago, it also provides for some 2,000 migrants who were sent to communities outside of New York City, including in Buffalo.
A novel resettlement program will enlist a nonprofit to help migrants leave city-funded hotel shelters in Buffalo, and immigrant advocates hope it can be replicated. [ more › ]