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Source: CNN
Subject: Immigration
Type: Media Coverage

‘The future is here.’ Migrants step off buses from Texas into New York homeless shelters

“We know the trauma these families are going through but this is extra what’s happening here,” said Jose Lopez, co-executive director of the immigrant advocacy group Make the Road New York.

The nonprofit has volunteers at the terminal, distributing phones and cash assistance at tables set up in the receiving area.

“Many of these families from Venezuela have traveled months on their feet and across the Rio Grande to get here. That is a treacherous trip. And imagine doing that with a three-year-old,” Lopez said.

“I have a two-year-old and a five-year-old at home and the first family I met had a three-year-old girl who just looked around and had no understanding of what was happening. I needed to step away from the table for a minute. Her family was asking for resources. I asked the little girl what she had picked up from the tables. She said, ‘I just have Mami and Papi.’ “