Old Phoenix school becomes shelter for asylum seekers

PHOENIX (AP) — An international refugee organization and local non-profit groups have converted an old elementary school in south Phoenix into a shelter to sleep up to 277 people seeking asylum in the U.S.
Beth Strano of the International Rescue Committee of Arizona said Wednesday the Welcome Center will be able to sleep some 80 adults and children on new cots in the auditorium starting next week and 277 by summer’s end.
Shelter organizers say they aim to ease the stress of church an