Geovanna Tonato has been looking for work in New York City for more than a month, but with her asylum claim in its infancy, a five-year-old son to look after and tens of thousands of people in the same position, it’s been more challenging than she anticipated since she left her home in Quito, Ecuador, last September.
“My mother is sick, my father, too. So I told myself, ‘It’ll be better if I leave, go find work and I’ll help you.’ But I’m worse off than before,” she said recently through tears after wandering through New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal, in midtown
