Migrants struggle on streets in New York

Street vendors outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. — ©️2023 The New York Times Company

STANDING on a subway platform deep below Times Square, Natali Tualombo, a newly arrived migrant from Ecuador, sells water bottles and sodas from a cooler, her four-year-old son sitting at her feet.

It has become an increasingly familiar sight in New York City, where nearly 120,000 migrants have arrived since spring 2022.