Posted on 08/21/2023 1:35:30 PM PDT by packagingguy
For most migrants, the prospect of finding a decent job and safety is enough to justify the arduous, and often dangerous, journey to the United States. But now that they’re here, some say the U.S. is nothing like what they had imagined.
“I thought of New York differently, but now I also see that New York is in chaos,” said a 48-year-old Ecuadorian woman who was also staying at the Roosevelt. The woman, who declined to give her name, told Yahoo News that she, her husband and their 2-year-old child escaped violence in Ecuador, traveling for two months before they eventually reached New York.
“In my country right now they are stealing, they are killing and there is no longer security, just desperation,” she said, rocking her child back and forth in a stroller on the sidewalk. “We come to look for work. When we die, we are not going to take anything with us. But we want at least to have stability to live, at least while living in this world.”
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Lawlessness, murder, open drug use, gangs, wholesale shoplifting, expensive medicine.
Don't say none of them had access to the internet and were unable to see what they were stepping in to.
On a local level it's simply amazing that people from other countries would ever decide to come to our ghetto.
What the devil are they doing?
Could anyone please explain why they thought coming here was a good idea?
They imagined the old America that was already gone before they got here.
Handouts.
I visited New York several times in the late 80's. I had the same impression of the place.
so she has her first child at 46? Really?
If not her first, where are they other children. Even if they exist, we are to believe she had another one at 46?
You’re right.
“In my country right now they are stealing, they are killing and there is no longer security, just desperation,” she said,
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Guess what lady. It’s the same stuff in New York City.
You should have stayed home.
“But now that they’re here, some say the U.S. is nothing like what they had imagined.”
Same for most of us who’ve lived here all our lives. I feel sorry for the poor devils who got sent to the worst shitholes the country has.
Depends on their expectations.
Freedom is somewhat chaotic because your life belongs to you, not some faceless bureaucrat somewhere who, if allowed, will “organize” your life for you regardless of what you want.
If they read just the “approved” mass media sites they would have no idea how bad things were in the cities.
This is what censorship does—hides material facts from people who need to know them.
They’ve been watching too many Hollyweird and American TV shows thinking that’s the way things are here - oops.
That’s good, now gtfo!
Simple solution to these foreign born parasites. Go Home!
And per UN rules, refugees have to go to the nearest country, not all the way up to the US. So kick her and her spawn out. Parasites.
What is more puzzling to me is that liberal policies consistently turn once livable places into $#*+holes and yet people keep voting for that same old, same old.
Chaos and they are a large ingredient of that chaos, but then they left home where they slept on sidewalks amid chaos, and came here to sleep on our sidewalks amid chaos. A certain predictable irony.
“I feel sorry for the poor devils who got sent to the worst shitholes the country has.”
Location, location, location.
“Migrants” in my area live better than a lot of the taxpaying citizens.
In my country right now they are stealing, they are killing and there is no longer security, just desperation,”
Hell, lady...thats Chicago, Philadelphia or Seattle on a daily basis...Go the hell home and shut up.
At least now they get stipends, public schooling and free medical care.
Sorry Jose. The only reason you’re here is so the RATS will have the votes to take over the country. The far-left commie libs played you all like a cheap set of souvenir maracas.
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