This Manhattan adult learning center is seeing a surge in African asylum seekers

The case manager’s office at Harlem’s Mid-Manhattan Adult Learning Center was crowded, primarily with Senegalese men in their late 20s and 30s. Fatou Kane, the school’s community coordinator, picked up the student sign-in sheet that February afternoon, and with the aid of Patrick Duff, the case manager, started triaging the students’ problems. 

Some of the men had received a blue New York benefits card in the mail and had questions about it. They thought it was an immigration document. Another student wanted a school identification card. Others were there to register.

Read the full article here: https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2023/8/25/23845693/asylum-seekers-students-manhattan-adult-learning-center-migrants-nyc

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