#2,350 - Denver passes the buck of expensive illegal immigrants by bussing them to Salt Lake City

Denver is paying travel costs to send migrants to Utah — roughly 2,000 so far — even as the state, Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County lack capacity to care for them, and as they urge asylum seekers to go someplace else.

"Any individual who travels through our system makes their own decision on their destination," said Jon Ewing, with the Denver City-County Department of Human Services. "We are simply helping people connect with family, friends, or existing support systems."