Posted on 01/04/2024 5:49:28 PM PST by algore
Migrants who spent their life savings traveling from Africa to NYC have complained that they have been sold a dream by Hollywood - but the Big Apple is not what they expected.
Hundreds of homeless expats, mostly young and middle-aged African men, were waiting in line outside a church on East 7th Street in Manhattan's East Village on Thursday, hoping to find a place to sleep.
Among them was Landry, 40, from Congo, who told DailyMail.com he spent his life savings of $9,000 traveling to the US, taking the difficult decision to leave his wife and 14-year-old son behind four months ago.
The military veteran had been hoping to land a job in construction but he's been unable to find work in the city and ended up sleeping on the streets in sub-zero temperatures after shelters ran out of space.
Conditions in Congo were 'terrible' according to Landry, with frequent fights between ethnic groups and oppressive laws - but he said life in the Big Apple has been 'even worse.'
'It's like prison here,' he said, speaking in French. 'It's negligence. We have no access to food, toilets, or anything. Animals live better here - pets in the street are treated better than us.
'The UN building is right there to talk about the problems around the world but look at all this on the doorstep... desperation and lack of services.'
'We were sold a dream in Hollywood films and TV, but the reality of life in New York City is not like the movies,' he said, adding that he had been bussed over from California.
Landry said: 'I cry and think, why did I do this? But it's too late. I spent my life savings coming here and now I can't get a job. What can I do?'
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Go.
Home.
They’ll send you home. Just ask for a ticket.
I like my pets.
His $9,000 will pay off in the first year, work and earn money, collect all the freebies and welfare and health care you can while operating in this high-trust society with your back home corruption/amoral, no-rules cash-based ways, evade most taxes, invest in social security, and retire back to the Congo as a rich and powerful man by their measure.
Sub zero temperatures…,,,,nope.
…..l
left his wife and kid behind. Great guy.
Dumbass. Go home, and please tell 100 of your friends and relatives how bad it was.
He shouldn’t be treated to anything other than a bus ticket back to Mexico.
Awwwwww, give em a box of milk bones and send them home.
They need to go home and fix their countries
I feel sorry for the guy ... apparently he’s not an illegal. But he should have looked before he leaped.
Just go home
‘I cry and think, why did I do this? But it’s too late. I spent my life savings coming here and now I can’t get a job. What can I do?’
Go to sleep and dream that little dream about Hollywood again. As we say in America “You fked up.”
Thanks Joey, you dumbass
‘I cry and think, why did I do this? But it’s too late. I spent my life savings coming here and now I can’t get a job. What can I do?’
Go to sleep and dream that little dream about Hollywood again. As we say in America “You fked up.”
Thanks Joey, you dumbass
We love our pets....they’re like family. However, we despise your illegal arses.
Go back to wherever you came from.
He should have gone to Wakanda,would have been a shorter trip,,
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