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'Pets are treated better than us': Migrants who spent life savings traveling from Africa to NYC complain they've been 'sold a dream by Hollywood - but the American Dream isn't like the movies'
Daily Mail ^

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?'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: ansel12

He’s likely spent all his energy and time communicating and studying with other unwanted imports on how to ‘game our system’ and do exactly what you’ve said. Time that he could have spent ‘really’ looking for a job (along with the responsibilities that go with).

He’s just another in the endless throng of this world’s ‘economic refugees’ wanting to come here and take all they can get without doing anything substantive for it.


41 posted on 01/04/2024 6:18:19 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: TheCipher

You’re right. Thanks for the correction.


42 posted on 01/04/2024 6:18:38 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't match your biography, what good is it?)
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To: BipolarBob

My dog sits when I ask. And ‘stays’ and only eats the dog food portions allotted and protects me, etc.

Does not complain.

Wags his tail, and licks me.

Does not speak any spanish dialect.

We get along great.


43 posted on 01/04/2024 6:20:46 PM PST by Scrambler Bob
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To: algore
'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.

Too bad he does not understand that HE is the pet of the progs.

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44 posted on 01/04/2024 6:21:05 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: algore

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.


California is bussing them? Won’t put them on a plane?


45 posted on 01/04/2024 6:22:39 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: algore

I’m really old, but I do remember when genuine Vietnamese War refugees had to stay in camps in other countries until a US organization or individual sponsored them to enter the country.
These illegal alien mobs remind me of swarms of locusts.


46 posted on 01/04/2024 6:24:22 PM PST by Blueway (e)
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To: algore

Guess they won’t be voting for the Dims


47 posted on 01/04/2024 6:26:48 PM PST by Karoo
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To: wjcsux

If he moved a few hundred miles north he’d be in a French speaking society in the province of Quebec. Whether that would enhance his chances I don’t know. It’s even colder up there than NYC. Given his naivety about Hollywood and America he probably doesn’t even know Quebec exists.


48 posted on 01/04/2024 6:27:25 PM PST by xp38
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To: algore

I’d love to know who sold him this bill of goods, and no, it wasn’t “Hollywood”. $9000 is a good chunk of change and it went somewhere to get him here. If he has a complaint it’s with the people who talked him into this, got his transport arranged, and took his money. Who, incidentally, may well have taken money from the UN or other NGOs as well, to do so. This whole thing is a thinly disguised international trafficking racket with the U.S. on the hook for paying the final installment, and paying, and paying.


49 posted on 01/04/2024 6:27:38 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: algore

Yep.

They spend their life savings of $32 to get $5000 free money and unlimited food and housing and have the audacity to bitch about our generosity.

This is just the start. Their demands will escalate.


50 posted on 01/04/2024 6:29:00 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: leaning conservative
I was wondering if sitcoms and movies were one of the reasons a lot of people become illegal aliens.

In most of the movies and TV shows, almost everybody is magically at least upper middle class or higher, no matter how stupid they are.

Everybody living in a nice house or apartment, driving a new car or SUV.

Someone on the outside, looking in would figure that is just the way it is in the USA for everybody and do anything possible to get here.

We need to interview him and others like him from the various countries the are coming from and get those interviews on TV there.

51 posted on 01/04/2024 6:29:19 PM PST by Mogger
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To: Blueway

When the Vietnamese boat people came over it was already obvious how the left was pro-immigrant in every way, until these anti-Communist refugees showed up.

There was an odd lack of enthusiasm and even hostility from the democrats when it came to the South Vietnamese.


52 posted on 01/04/2024 6:33:57 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

We certainly aren’t getting the best and brightest from other countries .

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53 posted on 01/04/2024 6:35:46 PM PST by Mears
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To: Karoo
Guess they won’t be voting for the Dims

Yes they will. They already have their names and that is all they need to apply for an absentee ballot for them and fill it out. In CA they would have them apply for a drivers license and they would automatically be registered to vote, thus be on the voter rolls.

54 posted on 01/04/2024 6:37:34 PM PST by TheCipher ( RINO politicians in DC are the only reptiles in the world with no backbone)
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To: algore

“... up sleeping on the streets in sub-zero temperatures after shelters ran out of space....”

Spare me, if it were -F° you’d be frozen solid on the cement. Although it might seem like it if you were from Africa LOL.


55 posted on 01/04/2024 6:38:07 PM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: algore

They were scammed by the DemoMarxists who are still ticked off Republicans freed their slaves, so now the DemoMarxists are importing them from other countries by scamming them


56 posted on 01/04/2024 6:39:45 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: ansel12

The Vietnamese really hustled when they arrived……I’m my area lots of the men went into flooring and floor care and the women opned manicure shops .


57 posted on 01/04/2024 6:40:31 PM PST by Mears
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To: algore
A Prison eh? This is the Hollywood movie he should have watched


58 posted on 01/04/2024 6:40:56 PM PST by xp38
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To: Mears

They were motivated.


59 posted on 01/04/2024 6:41:29 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: algore

That “church” is two blocks away. Those illegals look scary. They really do stand out when they walk down the street. They’d be better off being sent to Harlem where they would blend in better and have a chance of getting a job sweeping sidewalks.


60 posted on 01/04/2024 6:44:03 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop ( ~~ TRUMP is right about EVERYTHING ! ~~ )
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