Thanks for posting. The comments on this thread are beyond stupid.
I don’t think there was any ulterior motive. Obviously, it makes the “migrants” look sympathetic...and they are, because they’re people in desperate circumstances, set up to do this mostly by US-funded leftist NGO’s. Many of their countries have appealed for them to stay home (because they need the labor, too), and even Mexico does not want all its brightest and best emigrating.
But that’s something the leftists never normally talk about. Or the fact that many of the NGO-sponsored illegal immigrants are not the deserving, hardworking poor, but are gangbangers hated in their own countries. And if we don’t have border control, then they’re in free.
The Times may be noticing this because Long Island has become an MS 13 hotbed and in fact crime by illegals from Latin America (and Africa) is becoming a serious factor in NYC life.
“Long Island has become an MS 13 hotbed”
Good. I am all for funneling these people to the sanctuary states/cities. Let them deal with the mess they are creating.
“The comments on this thread are beyond stupid.”
Which ones specifically, so those who are ‘stupid’ can learn something.