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The Guardian - US
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Samira Asma-Sadeque in New York

New Yorkers welcome asylum seekers sent on ‘uncomfortable’ ride from Republican states

New York Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Manuel Castro high-fives a child as a group of migrants, who boarded a bus in Texas, arrive at Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City on August 25, 2022.
Eric Adams has complained about receiving little or no notice from southern states when asylum seekers are arriving. Photograph: Yuki Iwamura/AFP/Getty Images

The buses all had something unusual in common: even though they had traveled the length of the country the luggage compartments were eerily bare.

The vehicles’ giant front windows reared around the corner, faces peeping through tinted glass for a first glimpse of New York City.

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