Colorado Ends Short-Term Program to Bus Immigrants to Chicago and New York
DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis said Colorado will no longer transport asylum seekers to New York City and Chicago after the mayors of both cities demanded the policy stop.Polis sent an unspecified number of migrants to both cities and other locations in Colorado last week because, he said, they were only passing through on their way to those destinations, and Denver city officials were overwhelmed by the 3,900 migrants who have already They had arrived in the last month.It has already cost Denver more than $2.5 million to house and feed migrants seeking asylum due to violence, hunger and unemployment…
