![]() ![]() She said the family had hoped someone they knew in New York would take them in, but that plan did not work out. "It's a little easier to enter the country now, before it was very hard to come here with children," said Leidy, who travelled with her kids Mariana, 7, and Nicolas, 13. Byron and Leidy, both 28, said they left the country's capital Bogota because they were having trouble finding work. One family of four from Colombia, who ended up at a homeless intake centre in the Bronx, were unsure of where they would spend the night. They don't know where to go, so we're taking them to shelters," said one volunteer at the bus station, Evelin Zapata, from a group called Grannies Respond. "Most of them don't have anybody to help. Volunteers were helping to steer people who had no relatives in town to city resources. The first bus arrived early on Friday at the city's Port Authority Bus Terminal in midtown Manhattan carrying around 50 migrants from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras and Venezuela. ![]() Texas governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, said on Friday he has started to send buses carrying migrants to New York City in an effort to push responsibility for border crossers to Democratic mayors and US president Joe Biden, a Democrat. ![]()
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