This is a story I missed, but Friends of Refugees caught it here.
A little background on Utica as a refugee resettlement city:
We told readers as early as 2007 that the “city that loves refugees” was having problems, here. Then we have some immigrant food stamp scammers caught in Utica, here. Nearby Rome, NY has problems with too many refugees, here. Then here is a post where we learned that percentage wise Utica has one of the highest populations in the US of foreign born residents.