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It's the same you see in several cities in the united states
Outside of a home depoo or a lows or au hle migrants looking for a daylabor
I'm here without indicate fellow kalloggocia broken galalas
Thanks
Darin as you know
A few weeks ago
You and i went to a home depoo in brrooklin new york
We saw dozens of migrants gathered outside of every parking lot outit waving at cars
Looking for work
We just anted to talk to one of them
That's ebrahihim a thirty four year old asylum seeker from guinny
He told me
The geking in the ability of getting day labor is small
But it's his only hope to find work without a work permit
Which is using his first name
So that he could talk freely about geking in the us without authorization
He said that he fled ginny
Because he suffered political persecution
There he did off in my demand dazzy
He says he applied for day yabor like many asylum seekers ebran
He came to the us to rebuild his life and start working
But he can't work legally
He had to apply for a work permit through asylum
He got to new york nine months ago
And he is still waiting for the work permit to come through this is the indicator for planet money
I'm daran woods
And i am carlose carcia a lot of the debate
Right now is about illegal immigration
Today on the show
We're homing in on one aspect of what's happening people legally seeking asylum
They'll explain the complicated and lengthy process cess we'lying for a work permit as an asylum seeker
Why does it take so long
And what supports are in place during that process
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There were hundreds of thousands of asylum applications
Filed last year people come to the us from countries all over the world
Columbia
Equador
Centagoal and china
Twenty eight year old ala hangzhou came from venezuela
We met him outside of the rose about hotel in miid town manhattan
That's the main intake center for migrants in new york city
He sat down with us
To tell us this story
And again
Which was using his first name
So he can talk freely about working in the us without a work permit
He says that invent as well la
He owned a barber shop
Which was also a beauty salon
He says he was also part of a group
That opposed the government
And he received a lot of threats
He says the government worked with criminals and his hometown of vilenthsia
And that if he didn't pay the government off
That threatened to come off to him in his business
He decided to leave vanzuela
He left behind his wife and his then five year old son 对a
He only had enough money to get himself out of the country
But his goal was to earn enough money in the us to eventually get his family out
Too he cross seven borders from venezuela to mexico
He then crossed the us border inl pasco to apply for asylum crossing the border at a port of entry to apply for asylum is legal the right to seek asylum was incorporated into international law in willbw two and into us law in one hundred and eighty
是
A from the time people cross the border
It can take years for their asylum application to be determined the deadline
To submit an asylum application is one year after you cross the border
People often applied right before that twelve one deadline
Because they need that time to build the case in court
They must prove that they suffered persecution or fear persecution in their home country
Once people have applied for asylum
They must waite six more months before their eligible to get a work permit 是
But getting a work permit does not mean that you've been granted asylum on average
It takes the courts about a year and a half to determine an asasillum cdadavid sagogukelliick directs immigration researarch inititive
And he says that there are a number of reasons
Why it's a long process
There are not enough immigration judges
And at the same time there re's been a rise in asylum applications restrictions
During the pandemic created a paint p demand
Which he isn't helped thethere's also think think political turmoil in places
Like in eueland
In parof africa and in parcivasia
That have been unusual and happened to be converging around this um
This moment of coming um been been an sick asylum
He says
This also been no meaningful immigration reform
Since the unianm m ko on angzo uaa ma to dedelum case doisn't
He says he turned himself in the us officicreas an asylum seekers and immigration took him to a place
Where there was a bus going to new york
That bus was organized by texis coin a gregreg abbott who explained his reasoning on abc news
Before we begin buone illegal immigrgrare up new york
It all the texts and to arizona that bore the bunt
That all of the chaos and all the problems that come with it
That the rest of america is understanding exactly what is going on all hundred ened was one over over thirty seven like gregrthat that exgovernor thousand new york between august twenty
Twenty two and january twenty twfour four there are currently just under sixty five thousand migrants in new york
Ity's shelter system including out a handro
The city is projected to pay nearly four billion dollars in emergency spending for asylum seekers
This fiscal year
Now it proo over two hundred emergency shelters for asylum seekers
Some shelters are former hotels
Jakers or schools that have been repurposed
And others are large tent like structure allo hundred i losing a converted hotel
Where he also also ts ts three meals a although
Though there have been a number of reports
That the food in the shelter system is unhealthy and even rotten at times
Right now the he
He to a the ting with providing migrgrstedevcard
So that they could more easily access their own food
But
But the hundred who says he wanted to work to be able to provide for himself and his family
And i said he
He ggted in his
His st st defined a work permit
His very first day in new york
He met to immigration advocates at the bus station
They worked with him for about a year
And connected him with the legal services
He needed yeyou though then he had
Had more to his family
He
He ys they've been like his family
Since he got to this country
At
At alhangro submitted his asylum application just before the one year deadline
Then he had to wait six more months to be eligible to get a work permit
Right he that time he wait under the table
Yeah though i he they
They ebhe he says he would go to restaurant construction sites
Anywhere people could be looking for workers
He would ask for a day of work a few hours
Anything they could offer
Sometimes he would go early in the morning
Spend the whole day and have no luck finding work
Then in january
Twenty
Twenty four
Almost a year in a half
After then coybia in new ork k
He was his work authorization
But he works forty hours a week
Cleaning the floors of a new york city hospital
He makes twenty two dollars an hour
When he found big able legal work
He earned enough money to get his wife and sun out of venezela
They followed his path crossing borders from columbia to mexico
And then in the texas
They arrived in new york earlier
This year where they joined all hhzo in the shelter system
That shelter system is struggling
Though when like other us cities new york has long guaranteed a bid to anyone
Who needed one
But in march citing a twenty crowding with the constant arrival of migrants
The city began limiting migrants days in shelters to thirty days for single adults
That limit does not apply to migrant families with children
So ala angzhou his family are able to stay in the shelter system for now
Ala hundred says
Once his wife gets her work authorization
They hope to have enough money to rent their place
We asked him what what aspiperrations for the future
It also wwants ants to his on ann laws
He wants to give him what entaken from him in his country
He wants to work and get ahead in life
Last month
President biinan announced a new executive it
It was also called to excceed when eniceannounced from seeking asylum it goes into effect when encounters exexceed
When engragrain the seven day average
It was also called out immigration and asylum system broken and outdated and called on congress to enacked new immigration laws
This episode was produced by julia rggy
With engineering by debby
Dotterit
It was factchecked by siarahrrkcacancannon is the shows editor
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