ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Hundreds of migrants apprehended at the southern border are being held across the country in an upstate New York jail, many arriving "incredibly disoriented," according to advocates scrambling to get them legal aid.
The Albany County Jail has taken in about 300 migrants this summer under an arrangement with federal officials. Most of them are asylum-seekers and were apprehended at the southern border. About half are from Central America, with others coming from Asia, eastern Europe and Africa, according to the New York Immigration Coalition.
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