NYC’s Port Authority reveals migrant families’ emotional reunions with relatives
Several migrants were reunited with loved ones after being bused to the Big Apple early Monday, exclusive photos obtained by The Post show.
In emotional scenes outside Manhattan’s Port Authority bus terminal, multiple asylum seekers who stepped off a newly arrived bus were spotted quickly being embraced by waiting family and friends.
At one point, a smiling young boy could be seen running from the bus and into the arms of a man waiting patiently on the sidewalk.
Meanwhile, a migrant woman clutching a toddler was spotted in a tight embrace with a visibly emotional man.
The male was spotted resting his forehead against the woman’s cheek before planting a kiss on the little girl’s head as she was sandwiched between them.
The exact relationship between the reunited migrants wasn’t immediately known.
It also wasn’t clear how long the asylum seekers had been separated from their relatives.
The newly arrived migrants join the more than 100,000 who have flooded into the Big Apple since early last year.
Nearly 60,000 asylum seekers are being housed in the roughly 200 city-run shelters or emergency sites scattered across the five boroughs.
Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly warned the city is at capacity amid the migrant influx and has been scrambling to find additional locations to house the arriving asylum seekers.
“We are past our breaking point,” the mayor said last week.
It comes after Adams revealed that the migrant crunch was expected to set the Big Apple back a hefty $12 billion over the next three years.