“New York is our home, we are here, we are not leaving” shouted the immigrants who protested at the rally held in Manhattan.
City Councilors indicated that the measure is not correct because it harms the family.
“Imposing limits on shelter stays for asylum-seeking families further strains our response systems and ultimately harms children,” said Councilwoman Carlina Rivera.
“They are tiring immigrants”
Around the shelter located on East 7th Street in Manhattan in the facilities of what was the Saint Brights School, several immigrants spend the day looking for a place to sleep.
Although they look for a more permanent place that allows them to leave their belongings, they generally sleep in a different shelter every night.
“Let’s see what they give us, every day they change us, one day they send us to Brooklyn, others to the Bronx, another to Queens and that’s how we are,” commented one of the immigrants interviewed by Univision 41.
They added that they feel like homeless people because they always carry the little they have in suitcases they have found in the trash.
Many of them claimed to be ready to work, but not having a fixed place complicates their task.
In an interview, some said that the measure of limiting stays in shelters is a strategy to tire them out.
“There are my countrymen who want to return to their country. What they are (doing) is tiring the migrants so that they move away from the city,” commented an asylum seeker identified as José.
“They are doing everything they can to show that New York is not ready to receive them,” he added.
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They offer free oranges to migrants.
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Regardless of the country of origin, food, drinks and clothing are delivered.
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