NEW YORK — For one 29-year-old Venezuelan woman, who left her two children and partner behind in her home country to embark on a six-month journey to New York City, America represented hope. There, she thought, she would find safety and the opportunity to make a living. But four months after arriving in the U.S., she says it's nothing like she had imagined.
Mandatory Credit: Photo by CHINE NOUVELLE/SIPA/Shutterstock - NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2023 - Migrants are seen outside the Roosevelt Hotel, the city's migrant intake center, in New York, the United States, on Aug. 3, 2023. Hundreds of asylum seekers are still coming to New York daily though authorities said the city has reached its limit on migrants.
“It’s too difficult to come to a place where you don’t know the language,” the woman, who agreed to speak anonymously to protect her safety, told Yahoo News. Speaking in Spanish, the woman had been standing along the granite wall of a bustling midtown Manhattan restaurant attached to the Roosevelt Hotel, which in recent months has been transformed into the city’s migrant intake center.in recent years, the woman explained that Venezuela's corrupt and repressive government had left her with few options at home. She embarked on the dangerous journey to the U.S.
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