As Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sends more migrants via bus from the Mexico border, volunteers, city officials, and migrants in New York City are forced to adapt as politics play out on the ground. | via NPR
Asylum-seekers who have recently arrived in New York on a bus from Texas wait for ride-share vehicles, organized by a mutual aid group, to take them into the city.
Charities and volunteer groups have been helping people as they've arrived over the past few months, but city officials and nonprofits have become more publicly involved in the past few weeks. Team TLC NYC, part of a larger national organization called Grannies Respond, has worked to offer food, clothing, and medical assistance to asylum-seekers when they arrived. In an interview on Aug. 10, Ilze Thielmann, the group's director, said the cooperation has been successful.
Many of the newly-arrived asylum seekers don't have relatives in New York to stay with. So after they leave the station, they often enter city homeless shelters. The shelter system doesn't track people by immigration status, but city officials estimate that between 4000 and 5000 asylum-seekers have entered city shelters since May.
"They had problems with drugs, they had [mental] problems, and really, we felt in danger there," he says, speaking Spanish."I'd 1000 times rather stay in the streets than [at that shelter]." Veronica, a 22-year-old from Venezuela, who also asked to use only her first name to protect her legal status, says she is six months' pregnant, and a problem with her pregnancy she encountered while traveling through Mexico necessitates specific medical care. She says she was staying in a shelter in Manhattan, but it only offered a place to stay.
NYC's Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs commissioner Manuel Castro says he wants to hear about any problems people encounter, and that city officials are working with a growing group of charities and nonprofits.
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