The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday opened an investigation into the operation of New York City hotels as migrant shelters, according to media reports. The Guardian newspaper and the New York Times,

The Justice Department is investigating funding and operations at two Manhattan hotels being used as migrant shelters, according to several reports.

New York City’s migrant shelter operation is under criminal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, which is looking into the management and funding of the hotels that helped house the influx of hundreds of thousands of foreign migrants since 2022,