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Héctor Ríos Morales

A look at how migrant families are being relocated to shelters in NYC's different boroughs

Migrants families walk around the shelters at Floyd Bennett Field in the Brooklyn borough of New York (Credit: Via Getty Images)

SEATTLE - As the city of New York continues to deal with the high number of migrants and asylum seekers living in its shelters, new data from the mayor's office reveals that about a third of all evicted migrant families who remained in the shelter system after their 60-day limit was up were relocated to other boroughs.

According to data obtained by Gothamist and shared, over half of the 12,560 families who have received eviction notices have since left the city's shelter system, but of the roughly 6,000 families left behind, nearly nine in every 10 of them had to move to another shelter.

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