The scene outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal featured protesters, some well-wishers and lots of politics.
Media and immigrant rights activists gather outside one of the three busses that arrived at Port Authority, from Texas, on Tuesday carrying 80-100 asylum seekers from Central and South America.Media and immigrant rights activists gather outside one of the three busses that arrived at Port Authority, from Texas, on Tuesday carrying 80-100 asylum seekers from Central and South America.
We’ve had this enforcement-only approach for decades that’s funded detention and deportation. And yet, migration keeps going. And the humanity of people whose lives are at stake isn’t being fully considered.The first of the three busses that arrived at Port Authority, from Texas, on Tuesday morning, carrying 80-100 asylum seekers from Central and South America.
“The mayor is using this as a game against the city’s own homeless population,” Rastogi told Gothamist, “saying, ‘All these migrants are coming, they’re using up the shelter spots, that’s why we can’t take care of our own homeless.’ It sounds like a political game, it sounds like a talking point.”For his part, Adams has voiced confidence in estimates that more than 4,000 asylum seekers have arrived in the city in recent months, placing a strain on the city’s shelter population.
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