NBC News is reporting that there have been so many illegal migrants brought into New York City recently that the migrants are putting each other out of work.
A video report posted February 28 on NBCnews.com explains how “so many illegal migrants [have come] into New York that some of the female migrants cannot find work to pay their smuggling debts.” The reporter interviewed various applicants for day labor at an intersection in Williamsburg, New York, called La Parada (The Stop).
Every day up to 150 [illegal migrant] women wait here, bargaining for hourly pay that is often below minimum wage. . . Rosa migrated from Ecuador and eventually settled in New York city nine years ago. She still comes to La Parada at least five days a week to look for work: [She said] “Now it is very, very difficult because there are a lot of people.”
Rosa, like most of the other applicants at La Parada, is here illegally, but she has joined the club of American workers outbid for work by incoming illegal migrants.
Ecuadorians, like so many from Central and South America, have been illegally coming to America for years. Breitbart’s Neil Munro says “roughly 500,000 Ecuadorians walked through the southern border between 2000 and 2017.”
With the coming of the Biden administration, the numbers have exploded, however. Munro continues: “97,000 Ecuadorians were recorded in 2021 while trying to cross the border.” The numbers aren’t available, but the odds are most of the latter were admitted.
Walter Sinche, the executive director of the Ecuadorian International Alliance, says the numbers are unprecedented: “I’ve been here almost 34 years and I’ve never seen the wave of Ecuadorians coming in the short time,” he said.
New York City is of course an extraordinarily expensive city to live in. Last year, a report issued by the city estimated that a couple with two children would need to earn at least $154,000 to count as middle-income. With basic two-bedroom apartments renting for thousands of dollars a month and debts to coyotes of $15,000 to $20,000 per person, migrants live clustered tightly together to share expenses. Many of the tenements are substandard, divided by landlords into ever-smaller units to increase rental income. Last August, 11 migrants drowned in basement apartments during a storm.
Still they come, encouraged by city, state, and federal governments. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) declared last year, for example:
We need them. We need them in our labor force. We need them to continue American vitality. We need them because they’re part of the American dream.
This in spite of the fact that they’re so numerous they’re taking each other’s jobs. Only in America.
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