How other cities are responding to migrant crisis

Contractors set up the kitchen tent during a media tour in August of a shelter New York City has set up to house up to 1,000 migrants in the borough of Queens. (Associated Press)

The city’s plan to unburden overcrowded police stations by moving migrants into mega-tent shelters is new to Chicago, but not to other U.S. cities also dealing with an influx of new arrivals.

New York City, which has received over 110,000 migrants since Southern governors began sending migrants north last year, opened a tent shelter Wednesday on an island between Manhattan and Queens.