New York City saw thousands of new migrant arrivals in recent years, but now many face an uncertain future in the United States.
Over 210,000 migrants arrived in New York City between early 2022 and summer 2024, pushing city resources to their limits as the historic gateway to the United States tried to find beds, food and financial aid for many who had crossed the southwest border.
'Trump has made clear he wants to carry out a hard-right agenda that would tear apart families by carrying out sweeping raids, deputizing police to detain immigrants on a mass scale and literally lock them up in camps before deporting them,' Gounardes said.'But the truth is that separating families, and sowing fear and chaos in communities, does nothing to ensure public safety or fix our broken immigration system.
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