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☆ On Queens Soccer Fields, Immigrants Find Each Other and a Sense of Home
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Raúl Vilchis | Photographs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Ender Mora arrived at the soccer field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park one Sunday afternoon with a couple of new Venezuelan friends who had gotten off a bus at Port Authority four hours earlier, after a journey from the Texas border. The two 20-year-olds had no socks, wore only thin jackets and looked confused and exhausted. While waiting for his turn on the field, Mr. Mora, wearing his soccer uniform, busied himself bringing them bottles of water, sandwiches and warmer coats. “I know they just arrived, but I thought it was important for them to see this,” Mr. Mora said, “so that they could get to know all our people here.”

Persons: Ender Mora, . Mora, busied, Mr, Mora, ” Organizations: Port Authority Locations: Flushing Meadows Corona, Texas

Under an elevated subway track in Queens, Victor José Hernández was whipping up the pepitos that he had perfected at a street cart in Caracas, Venezuela. Just steps away, an Ecuadorean restaurant now displays a big Venezuelan flag and offers karaoke with Venezuelan love songs. And the line for arepas and cachapas (sweet corn cakes) spills out the door of a Venezuelan cafe. Though New York City was built on immigrant neighborhoods — Chinatown, Curry Hill, Little Italy and Little Haiti, among many others — it has never had a Venezuelan neighborhood. Historically, the city’s Venezuelan population was tiny and overshadowed by much larger Hispanic groups, including Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, immigration experts said.

Persons: Victor José Hernández Organizations: New, Puerto Ricans Locations: Queens, Caracas, Venezuela, Roosevelt, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Corona, Venezuelan, Little Venezuela, New York City, Curry Hill, Little Italy, Little Haiti

200,149 migrants came to New York State, most of them to New York City. 200,149 migrants came to New York State, most of them to New York City. His brother-in-law, who had come to New York six months earlier, told Mr. Rodríguez there were opportunities for him in New York, and lent him money to fly here. “I didn’t want to interrupt my seven-month-pregnant wife’s rest, and we didn’t go out,” Mr. Vargas said. “Little by little we understood how to navigate the neighborhood,” Mr. Vargas said.

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On Thursday, Vinicius Funes, a 26-year-old migrant from Honduras, went in search of a bed. He had spent two nights waiting in a chair at New York City’s official arrival center for migrants at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. But it turned out to be a “reticketing” office, where the city buys migrants a one-way passage out of town. There were no beds there either, though, just a big waiting room. Mr. Funes spent the night on the floor.

Persons: Vinicius Funes, Funes, Roosevelt Organizations: New York, Roosevelt Locations: Honduras, New, Midtown Manhattan

New York City’s homeless system is sheltering record numbers of people week after week, as an influx of migrants accelerates to its highest rate since the crisis began. The city is moving more and more migrants out of its vast network of emergency shelters by combining pressure tactics with help in finding permanent housing. But the jump in arrivals — to more than 500 people per day in recent weeks — has outpaced those efforts. On Monday, the mayor announced a 60-day limit on how long a family can stay at any one shelter. A similar limit was imposed on single adults over the summer, and later reduced to 30 days.

Persons: Eric Adams Locations: York

So residents turned to other measures — heckling migrants who came looking for shelter and protesting loudly. It was on Mr. Herkert’s street, but he and others residents would not confirm whether they owned it. Gisela Rivadeneira, 24, and her father, Roberto Rivadeneira, 52, both originally from Ecuador, have been staying at the shelter since they arrived there 12 days ago. There are just a few more weeks before a 60-day deadline to move out, which the Adams administration recently imposed on migrants. The messages from the speaker over the weekend underlined the feeling that they are not welcome.

Persons: Gisela Rivadeneira, Roberto Rivadeneira, Adams, Mr, Rivadeneira Organizations: Staten, St, John Villa Academy, Advance, New York Post Locations: Staten Island, Ecuador, U.S

Until last week, Corona Plaza in Queens was bustling: taqueros flipping fresh tortillas and vendors hawking Central American crafts over a soundtrack of cumbia and train traffic. There were produce stands, live bands and surging crowds, all in a public square that was named one of the 100 best places to eat in the city. But last Thursday and Friday, sanitation workers swept through the plaza, removing several stalls and threatening to penalize vendors who did not have a city permit to operate — nearly all of the more than 80 who regularly work there. In the days since, the grilled-meat stands and jugs of agua fresca have been replaced with protest signs. A spokesman for the Sanitation Department said removing the unpermitted vendors was necessary because the plaza had become so crowded that it was impassable, “with dirty conditions, with semi-permanent structures bolted into the ground, illegal vending right in front of storefronts.”

Organizations: Corona, hawking, Sanitation Department Locations: Corona Plaza, Queens, American, New York

☆ As Politicians Cry ‘Crisis,’ Some Migrants Are Finding Their Way
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Christopher Maag | Raúl Vilchis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At around 7 a.m. one day last August, the first migrants sent to New York City by the governor of Texas arrived with little warning on a bus, and walked sleepily into their new lives. They joined others who moved into shelters, then hotels, then white tents on an island in the East River and, as more came, into empty office buildings and school gyms. They enrolled their children in nearby schools, ate boxed meals served by the city, and clothed themselves in castoff pants and shirts donated by volunteers. Roughly half moved into public shelters, and the city’s shelter system reached 100,000 that month. City officials added up the costs of housing them: an estimated $4.3 billion by next summer.

Persons: Eric Adams, Biden Locations: New York City, Texas, East

☆ New Migrants Have a Year to Apply for Asylum. Many Won’t Make It.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Hurubie Meko | Raúl Vilchis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The group demanded a monthly payment, he said, to allow him to run his car shop in peace. But more than a year after his family — including his wife and two daughters — arrived safely at the southern border, it seems likely they missed the deadline to apply. Mr. Lopez, 42, said he was seeking help from a lawyer. Mr. Lopez and his family are among the millions of migrants who have arrived at the southern border in the past year. Many, after telling border agents about abuse and persecution that they experienced, a first step in the long and complicated process of seeking asylum, have been temporarily released as they wait for their immigration cases to wind their way through courts.

Persons: Santos Lopez, Lopez, — Locations: Honduras, United States

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