More NYC Asylum-Seekers Arrive in Rochester

More asylum-seekers have arrived in Rochester.

County officials say 71 more asylees arrived from New York City yesterday, and are now staying at the Downtown Holiday Inn.

There are 19 families: 12 from Venezuela, 3 from Colombia, 2 from Peru, and one each from Ecuador and Nicaragua.

And 38 of the new arrivals are children.

It's the fourth arrival of asylum-seekers to Rochester in recent weeks.

Fifty-one arrived last week.


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