Several New York media outlets have captured migrants with their children selling water, soft drinks, fruit, sweets, and other types of food at traffic lights and busy city streets.
Reporters have been following up on these cases, indicating that, for the past two weeks, these scenes can be seen on busy and dangerous streets in New York, such as Harlem River Drive, FDR Drive, West Side Highway in Manhattan, Woodhaven Boulevard and Myrtle Avenue in Queens.
Some of the street vendors said their intention is not to sell on the streets, but to have a “real” job in the United States, according to the New York Post account.
“Many people who see us selling here take photos and videos of us and say ‘You can’t be here selling like this’ and ‘Not with your baby,’” said one of the vendors photographed. “But some days there is no one to leave them with… and if we don’t work, we can’t pay the rent and buy food… for the babies,” the woman said.
The newspaper has reported that the authorities ignore the presence of these vendors who work on the streets, most of them migrants who came to the US through the border with Mexico.
Just this Monday, New York Mayor Eric Adams said that the city receives a large part of these Central and South American immigrants who cross the southern border of the country, but that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is not giving enough funds to the city.
“FEMA allocated 350 million dollars (about 323 million euros) and only 30 million dollars went to New York City,” he stressed in an interview on “The Sunday show with Jonathan Capehart” on MSNBC.
“So we received the large sum of immigrants in our city, but we are not receiving the funds to match. The plan in our border states is simply to use FEMA money to move the immigrants to New York City. That is not a viable solution,” he stressed.
2023-05-22 17:02:00
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