Breaking the law and barely surviving: Inside NYC’s cash-based migrant economy wreaking havoc on city revenue
NY Post | 02/01/2024 | Isabel Vincent

With stiff, cold fingers, Sambeittou Sambeittou removed the neatly folded piece of cardboard he carries in his pocket like a wallet and treats like a precious jewel.

“I’m looking for carpenter jobs” is written in marker along with a phone number.

The 45-year-old huddled with other migrants from Africa at the entrance of a Lowe’s in Brooklyn, hoping for a few dollars in tips from customers loading drywall, lumber and insulation into their vehicles.

Sambeittou never learned to read and write in Mauritania, the West African country he left three months ago on a journey that took him through Senegal, Turkey, Nicaragua and Mexico.

My heart goes out to him if he truly wants to work, and isn’t just pretending.

And he sure was dealt a hugely terrible hand in life, being born in that country. One can understand why he’d want to go to the new Rome.

But

It must’ve cost a boatload of money to go from Mauritania to Senegal, to Turkey, to Nicaragua, to Mexico, and then to sneak over the border illegally to the U.S. . . . . and to support yourself with meals and lodging for three months while doing so. Not sure I could do so.

Did some Democrat-supporting outfit front him the money?

If he earned it himself, couldn’t he think of a better use for it than illegal immigration? Perhaps, for instance, applying for legal status in any country in the world?

There are lots of legal residents of this country looking for carpentry jobs. So, sorry.

I wouldn’t think it wise to go to Russia, where I do not speak a word of the language, and use a card saying “Looking for employment.” The reasons against this are so obvious that I have to suspect his whole story.

And you can pry the SNAP card (food stamps) out of my stiff, cold fingers.

Unvetted, unvaccinated and uneducated, they are unprepared for life in America, even those Biden’s Border Patrol ushers in and to whom it provides monies, cell phones, and transport deep in country with court dates years in the future. One can only imagine the condition of the millions of “getaways” who arrive by authority of those who today control our southern border: the criminal cartels, and with them drugs, fentanyl, and trafficked women and children, in what Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. calls a “humanitarian crisis of unimaginable proportions.”

Then, there is the crime. Once, crimes by illegal immigrants who should have been but were not deported after their second, fifth, or 10th illegal reentry was almost a cliché, but still tragic and horrifying. Now, with what Gov. Greg Gianforte [CO] says are 10 million illegal aliens (“10x the population of Montana”) since Biden took office, their crimes are an epidemic, not just in major cities but far beyond.

— Colorado’s Illegal Immigrant Crisis Hits the Suburbs
Colorado Springs Gazette | Jan 31, 2024 | William Perry Pendley