The roughly 50 migrants arrived at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan on Christmas Day after leaving by bus from the Texas border city of El Paso on Dec. 20, said Power Malu, the founder of a group called Artists, Athletes, Activists.
After months of pleading with the feds for some intervention to contend with the operational issues caused by the arrival of thousands of asylum seekers to NYC, help is coming not via the executive branch but via Congress.
The recent suicide of a migrant in Queens has brought the issue of mental health sharply into focus. Though migrants are vulnerable to suffering from mental illness, help is hard to come by as the mental health resources available to them are profoundly inadequate.
New footage has shown border patrol agents unlocking the border gate - allowing around 25 migrants to enter - as a Texas National Guard watches on helplessly.