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 ...
Pets are useful and provide company.
Tell your buddies back home not to come. The democrats brought you here just for your votes. They don’t care about you. Go back home.
It’s hell for us too-we are paying for your upkeep and have run out of money. Go home.
This why “MAY 25, 2023
Asian voters in the U.S. tend to be Democratic, but Vietnamese American voters are an exception”
Some people pay as much as $100,000 to get inside our borders.
The long-term payoff of getting among these innocents is that good.
An Infantry Division's worth a day. Invading. They aren't nearly all friendlies just looking for a handout.
Interesting…I did not know that but am not surprised .
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You can imagine how anti-Communist they were in 1975, to the Democrats/left they were like Eastern European refugees, a problem and undesirable.
Illegal aliens are treated better than American citizen veterans and other Americans...
Wheres the warm beds and meals for the homeless American citizen veterans ???
Oh, you are so right, Mr Invader. America is a terrible country, and you should go back to the hellhole you came from.
Read the article. He said he’s been looking for work.
I heard an interview the other day where a doctor at an insane asylum in South America was saying for the first time in the 30 years he had been there , it was completely empty. They had shipped all the mental patients here. Also, they are emptying the prisons and sending them here.
We’re not asking them to go home, we’re telling them to!
I know, he’s a poster boy for a model husband, sarc.
Bingo
Castro did the same thing with the Mariel Boat Lift, IIRC.
And with them will come crime ,homelessness and then government checks.
.Discouraging.
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Too bad, so sad.
DUH!
Please die. Thanks in advance.
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