In a statement, the city says, with hundreds of asylum seekers arriving daily, now has to limit the number of buses to transport them.
"It's only right if we can at least provide them with that welcome mat as this country was built off the backs of immigrants and say you are welcome here.""Not give them a piece of paper and say, hey, you're here in New York City find your way to this place," Malu said.
An activist organization says it ended up paying for Uber to get migrants to the hotel on East 45th Street.
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