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🗓️ 22 August 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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0:00.0 | The day I spoke with Marado Wada, he had been up at dawn at New York's Port Authority |
0:10.3 | terminal waiting for a bus full of migrants to roll in. |
0:14.6 | The journey super long, it's a two-day ride at times, you know, given very little food |
0:20.0 | if any food at all. |
0:21.5 | They're coming off the bus with nothing in hand except for their paperwork that they |
0:25.8 | were given by immigration officials. |
0:28.2 | They had started in Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, and other parts of South and Central |
0:34.1 | America, eventually crossing the U.S. border to seek asylum. |
0:38.6 | And then they found themselves on a bus, some with no idea where they were headed. |
0:44.7 | Like they did a huge journey to get to the southern border and then they're bused another |
0:50.0 | two days to New York City without real care or support. |
0:55.0 | Some folks are coming off the bus sec, there's a little girl who needed insulin. |
0:58.9 | There's a young man who had chest pain. |
1:00.8 | Marado Wada is the executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, a nonprofit |
1:06.0 | network helping the city provide for the new arrivals. |
1:09.9 | Texas began busing asylum seekers and other migrants northward in April, or the orders |
1:14.8 | of Governor Greg Abbott. |
1:16.8 | Here in New York City more than 100 asylum seekers arrived on buses from Texas early Wednesday |
1:21.8 | morning at Port Authority, the bus terminal near Times Square. |
1:25.5 | Another bus arrived Sunday with no advance notice from Texas officials. |
1:30.7 | It's been six years already, six years since I left my country. |
1:34.3 | First to Colombia, next to Ecuador, and in February I decided to come here to the Darian |
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