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Migrants Continue Arriving in NYC, Despite Discouragement from Adams
In recent weeks, City Hall has intensified its campaign to discourage migrants from coming to New York.

After a two-day bus journey, which began on Saturday, Alvarez Vargas, from Venezuela, arrived. Standing outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown, he waited to see if the staff there could help him catch a flight out of the city. By Monday evening, he said, Roosevelt Hotel workers had ordered him an Uber to Newark Liberty International Airport and bought him a $115 plane ticket to Miami, where he is now staying.
“I didn’t want to come to New York,” Alvarez Vargas, 28, said in Spanish on the sidewalk outside of the Roosevelt on Monday. But in Texas, he says the workers at the bus depot encouraged him to head to New York. “They told me: ‘Go to New York, and in New York they’ll help you. And from there, you’ll go to Miami.’ ”