In New York City, dozens of young men from West Africa, squeezed on the sidewalk, wait for days for shelter, in front of the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan. The city is facing an unprecedented number of arrivals since the summer of 2022, as more than 90,000 migrants, mainly from Central and South America, have arrived in the Big Apple since April last year, stretching services to breaking point. "Last week I waited 3 days and they told me that the hotels were saturated", says a Senegalese man. New York's mayor has said the city has no more room for migrants, and that authorities will hand out flyers at the US border with Mexico encouraging them to go elsewhere. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES