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Eduardo Garcia stands with crutches, surrounded by his family outside the Catholic Charities
headquarters in New York, on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022.
Associated Press
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN same journey. Ducey of Arizona to exploit
and ASHRAF KHALIL Now Maldonado and what they consider failed
Associated Press thousands of other asylum Democratic leadership.
NEW YORK (AP) — Weary seekers from across Latin Nearly 8,000 migrants have
of Venezuela’s autocratic America and the Carib- arrived on the state-spon-
government and the pit- bean are caught in the sored bus trips, straining the
tance he earned in the political battle over U.S. resources and humanitar-
military, Dario Maldonado immigration policy after ian services of both cities,
deserted and fled with his two Republican governors which have also sought as-
family to neighboring Co- started sending busloads of sistance from the federal
lombia. But life remained migrants to New York City government.
hard — money was tight and Washington. “This can be chaotic. But
and expenses mounted. Border cities such as San we want to send a mes-
So he set off for the United Diego have long wrestled sage: We’re here to help,
States, an odyssey that re- with influxes of asylum- and we want to put politics
quired him to travel by foot seekers and created well- aside,” said New York City’s
through Central American oiled machines to respond, immigration commission-
jungle infested with ven- but the nation’s largest city er, Manuel Castro, as he
omous snakes and gun- and its capital were caught greeted arriving migrants
toting bandits, sometimes flat-footed. That created on a recent morning.
sidestepping the corpses an opening for Greg Ab-
of people who died on the bott of Texas and Doug Continued on next page Page 7