amy: ilze thielmann speaking outside the port authority bus terminal in the center of manhattan. and many other new yorkers have also taken newly arrived asylum-seekers will stop on thursday, democracy now! spoke a venezuelan asylum seeker who arrived to new york in september and is now staying with thielmann. he was apprehended at the texas-mexico border and detained for two days. he said he was put on a bus to washington, d.c., and then on another to new york city. he asked to remain anonymous for safety. >> i left due to the economic situation in my country. you cannot make much money there. i have my daughter's my wife and my mother and that is why i made it to the united states. i was homeless a lot of the time. i went to the darien jungle. i was in there for seven days eating only bread. i got out of there and made it to panama and then costa rica and the nicaragua. it was complicated. we were always running. i made it to guatemala and then we crossed into mexico. mexico was a nightmare. they attacked venezuelans a lot. the police come immigration officials. when i made it