NEW YORK — Knees to their chests, dozens of men from countries such as Venezuela, Mali, and Senegal sat on a dirty New York City sidewalk outside a Manhattan hotel on Tuesday (Aug 1), awaiting asylum processing.
Some had been there for days, in a line that wrapped around the block and that underlined the challenge facing thousands of migrants in New York."There is no more room," Mr Adams said.
At the Roosevelt Hotel, which replaced the Port Authority Bus Terminal as the processing hub for migrants new to the city, asylum-seekers are supposed to be given food, water, and for the single men, transportation to shelter. Mr Hamid came to the United States"to work and for a home", he said, adding that he can't go back because,"we are threatened with death". A recent US State Department travel advisory for Mauritania warned of violent crime in the North African country and said its police lack resources.
Mr Murad Awadeh, executive director of the New York Immigrant Coalition, said that this week was the anniversary of asylum seekers being bused to New York City from Texas. He added that the city should have better planning and shouldn't be operating from an emergency response.
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