migrants

The mayors of Chicago, New York City and Denver have renewed pleas for more federal help and coordination with Texas over the growing number of asylum-seekers arriving in their cities by bus and plane. Their requests come as U.S. cities have struggled to manage the increasing number of migrants sent from Texas and other states.

Before he left Mauritania, the West African nation of his birth, Mohamed thought of New York as a place of “open arms,” a refuge for immigrants fleeing dire circumstances. Now that he’s here, seeking political asylum from a government he feared would kill him, he doesn't feel welcome.

Civil rights and immigration support groups protested Suffolk County’s plans to block migrants from relocating there, saying any lawsuit would be discriminatory. Then, legislators sidestepped the issue.

Park came to New York with his family when he was 7 years old. He's a senior at Harvard working toward a degree in molecular and cellular biology with a minor in ethnicity, migration and rights.