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NYC looks to amend right to shelter rule amid migrant surge

Over the weekend, several buses carrying migrants who'd recently crossed the southern border were headed to New York, but they were diverted instead to New Jersey. It's the most recent effort by officials to manage a crisis that has seen hundreds of thousands of migrants arrive in northern cities. William Brangham reports.

NYC looks to amend right to shelter rule amid migrant surge

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