New York schools embrace thousands of migrant children with needs beyond the classroom
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This story is based on reporting for a "60 Minutes" piece that examined how New York City has been dealing with an influx of migrants bused to the city, and some of the glaring problems with the asylum system that the crisis exposed. Watch the "60 Minutes" report in the player above. New York — Ten-year-old Cesar said his favorite part of school in the U.S. is the hot meals. While he's not a big fan of vegan Fridays, he said he enjoys the chicken and pizza served by the school. In crisis-stricken Venezuela, Cesar said in Spanish, "there was no food, there was no money." When he's not at P.S. 145, a public school on New York City's Upper West Side, Cesar is reluctant to eat the salads and cold meals served at a repurposed hotel in midtown Manhattan housing migrant families, according to his father, Ronny, who said the family does not have a microwave or refrigerator in their room. Cesar's family has struggled in New York. Ronny, whose last name is being withheld because he has a pending
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