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States hope finding jobs for migrants will help clear shelter overload

BY TIM HENDERSON Stateline
Posted 10/13/23

States and cities are taking advantage of expedited work authorizations for a flood of new migrants, seeking to match them with jobs so they can support their families while they wait for asylum hearings.

Allowing migrants to work might enable many of them to leave shelters in cities that were already strained by local homeless populations but have been further overwhelmed by the newcomers.

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