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Denver’s new migrant strategy offers intensive help — but what about the many who won’t qualify?

Advocates say drastically shorter shelter stay limit means more people sleeping outside

Maria Juarez, left, serves empanadas to immigrant families at a city shelter for migrants in Denver on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Denver restaurant Maria Empanada is donating $25,000 worth of the savory pastries so that newcomers can enjoy the foods they grew up eating. The weekly dinner program lasts through June. In all, more than 10,000 empanadas will be donated. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
Maria Juarez, left, serves empanadas to immigrant families at a city shelter for migrants in Denver on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Denver restaurant Maria Empanada is donating $25,000 worth of the savory pastries so that newcomers can enjoy the foods they grew up eating. The weekly dinner program lasts through June. In all, more than 10,000 empanadas will be donated. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
Joe Rubino - Staff portraits in The Denver Post studio on October 6, 2022. (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)Saja Hindi - Staff portraits in The Denver Post studio on October 5, 2022. (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
By | jrubino@denverpost.com | The Denver Post and | The Denver Post
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Migrant advocates and some City Council members are raising concerns that the drastic rollback of shelter stay lengths will have consequences. Those include migrant children living outside in tents.
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