Utah tells migrants seeking better prospects to stay away

After aid runs out elsewhere, some migrants relocate to places like Salt Lake City, where they find help but hurdles, too. “Consider another state,” says a flier distributed by Utah.

(Alex Goodlett | The New York Times) Lisa Fladmo, a caseworker at Family Promise, an interfaith alliance that assists homeless families, at her office in Salt Lake City, May 28th, 2024. Families keep arriving in Utah from the border and overwhelmed cities like New York and Denver, which have been offering migrants free bus rides and flights to other destinations, and homeless service providers, immigrant-rights groups and others say that they are at a breaking point.

Utah tells migrants seeking better prospects to stay away

After aid runs out elsewhere, some migrants relocate to places like Salt Lake City, where they find help but hurdles, too. “Consider another state,” says a flier distributed by Utah.

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