‘It represents freedom’: Volunteers tear Texas tags off arriving migrants as tents rise in Randall’s Island

By Dean Moses Posted on October 10, 2022

Volunteer Power Malu rips the Texas tags off of arriving migrants in Port Authority. Monday, Oct. 10, 2022.

Photo by Dean Moses/amNY File

Five buses carrying asylum seekers pulled into Port Authority before 7 a.m. on Oct. 10 as the mayor’s tent city begins to take shape on Randall’s Island.

Fatigued, hungry and frightened, a wave of humanity flooded out of the buses and into the city. Mothers and fathers swaddled small, bleary-eyed children in Red Cross blankets as they both symbolically and figuratively stepped out of the darkness and into the light.