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NYC is shutting down volunteer-led Port Authority welcome center for migrants
By David Brand, Elizabeth Kim and Bahar Ostadan
Published May 19, 2023
New York City is shutting down a key migrant welcome center inside the Port Authority bus terminal, and rerouting new arrivals to a city-established intake operation at The Roosevelt Hotel.
But leaders of volunteer groups who have assisted thousands over the last nine months say they are being cut out of the process.
"They're going to have their way, which is basically creating a welcome center where we're not welcome,” said Power Malu, one of the leaders of Artists Athletes Activists, which has coordinated transportation, food and shelter for migrants at the bus depot and the city’s major airports.
The Port Authority welcome center emerged as a crucial hub for thousands of newly arriving immigrants who have made their way to the five boroughs after crossing the southern U.S. border — at times, after being bused to the city by Republican governors. Aid workers there stepped in to assist the migrants with food, medical care, guidance and legal assistance, funded by donations and filling gaps in the city’s fraying social safety net.
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