Next stop for asylum seekers newly arrived in New York: Get IDNYC card

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Managed by the Department of Social Services, IDNYC is another resource for the recently arrived migrants to navigate their new lives in New York.
66% : While CBP seized his Venezuelan identification card at the border, he was able to get a new one with the help of a relative.
53% : Foreign passports (three points) and consular ID cards (two points) both count toward the tally, but Customs and Border Patrol often confiscates these documents.
50% : There, two dozen or so people waited in a narrow hallway for hours in hopes of getting an IDNYC card, many if not all of them recent arrivals in New York City who are seeking asylum after crossing the southern U.S. border.
49% : Cristian arrived in New York a little over a week ago after a journey from Colombia that included being detained by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol for over a month at the Texas/Mexico line.

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