New Yorkers welcome asylum seekers sent on ‘uncomfortable’ ride from Republican states

In midtown Manhattan, volunteers receive families bussed from the south amid simmering political and legal rows

The buses all had something unusual in common: even though they had traveled the length of the country the luggage compartments were eerily bare.

The vehicles' giant front windows reared around the corner, faces peeping through tinted glass for a first glimpse of New York City.