NY immigrant advocacy groups say $40 million needed to help asylum seekers (featuring I-ARC Exec Director Camille Mackler)

New York City immigrant rights groups say they’re scrambling to help the influx of newly arrived asylum seekers bused in from Texas – and now they’re demanding more government support.

As bus after bus arrives at Port Authority Bus Terminal with no clear end in sight, the New York Immigration Coalition – a group composed of hundreds of organizations across the state – is calling on the government from the city to federal level to coordinate a better plan to resettle the asylum seekers. The request comes as the city struggles to handle the ongoing arrival of asylum seekers, which appears to be straining its existing social safety nets.

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