• Irony Meter Explodes as Migrants Lured TO Florida for Hurricane Ian Cle

    From Technobarbarian@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 3 14:36:47 2022
    "Irony Meter Explodes as Migrants Lured TO Florida for Hurricane Ian Cleanup

    OH, NOW YOU NEED THEM

    Dan Ladden-Hall
    News Correspondent
    Updated Oct. 03, 2022 9:46AM ET /
    Published Oct. 03, 2022 7:43AM ET

    MARCO BELLO/Reuters
    Migrants are reportedly being transported from New York City to Florida
    for work supporting cleanup efforts in the wake of Hurricane Ian—weeks
    after the governor put migrants on a flight to Martha’s Vineyard. Over
    the weekend, scores of Venezuelan migrants were boarding vans heading to
    the Sunshine State from a pickup point in Queens, despite having little information about who they would be working for, the New York Post says. “They want us for hurricane cleanup, we’d get paid $15 an hour, overtime and $15 for food daily, I think,” Javier Moreno, 37, told the paper,
    adding that a woman named Camila “from an organization” approached him
    with a flier about the work. “I'm going for the work,” Moreno added.
    News of their journey south comes after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis controversially flew migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard to protest
    the “hypocrisy” of the Biden administration’s border policies."

    https://nypost.com/2022/10/02/nyc-migrants-pile-into-vans-they-say-are-headed-to-florida-for-hurricane-ian-cleanup/

    "Scores of Venezuelan migrants in New York City are hopping on vans to
    head down to Florida for Hurricane Ian clean-up, they told The Post.

    The migrants had scant information about whom they would be working for,
    but they still piled into vans in Queens that they said were headed to
    the Sunshine State over the weekend.

    “They want us for hurricane cleanup, we’d get paid $15 an hour, overtime and $15 for food daily, I think,” said Javier Moreno, 37, noting that a
    woman named Camila “from an organization” approached him with a flier.

    “I’m going for the work. It’s been hard for us migrants to find work
    here in New York, that’s why a lot of us are going. How’s the work in Florida?”

    A driver of one of the vans at the designated pick-up site, a corner in
    Corona, told The Post on Saturday that he was headed to Florida.

    He said he was under contract with a water and debris company. The firm
    did not answer its phone despite repeated attempts to call by The Post.

    “I’m taking these people in the van straight to Florida tonight,” the
    van driver said. “I don’t know how many people have left or how many
    more vans are coming.”"

    I expect that they'll be sending buses soon. And golly gee
    whiz--what a surprise! No one is blaming DeSaintless for putting
    Venezuelans to work cleaning up the mess. He'll probably be claiming
    credit for it soon enough. I wonder if he'll send Welcome Wagons? lol

    The way things are going I also end up wondering how long it will
    be before retrumplicans start bitching because Biden is keeping out too
    many workers. Fakes News is still pounding the "border crisis" drum hard
    so it will probably take some time before people get tired of the
    situation and wise up.

    TB

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