NEW YORK — Kaleine Gualoto was relieved when she arrived in New York and was greeted by a team of volunteers. She was grateful to be offered food, water and coffee, and taken to a hotel, where she and her family had a place to sleep.
But in the two months that have passed, disappointment has set in. How would she work without papers? How would she cook for her family without a kitchen? How would she look for work without child care?
Not knowing where else to turn, Gualoto, 24, retraced her steps to the place she first stepped foot in New York — Port Authority.