Apparently it was a RW woman who does not live in NY that caused Chinatown ICE Raid.
Because its just how things are done now. RWers make videos about who they want to go after and wallah! It happens.
When I worked in NYC, I worked in Greenwich Village. Its not far from Chinatown. The best Chinese Food I've ever tasted was from a restaurant in Chinatown.
Apparently she made a video on her visit to NY, complaining about the street vendors and how she could not push her stroller down the sidewalk comfortably due to all the vendors. I haven't seen the video, heard about it on a podcast.
Yes, besides great food, authentic grocery stores, there are street vendors. The interesting thing in all this for me is that, there was a time that bus loads of people came from all over the USA to shop on Canal Street. Famous for selling fake designer bags and watches. In the later years before I left NY, the vendors selling knock off goods were few and far in between. Lots of crackdown on knockoff goods. I remember there were ads telling people not to buy knockoff goods - This is in the years following 9/11. The ads told us that buying knock off goods meant we were supporting terrorism.
People from other states would actually make money, booking bus trips to Canal Street. I don't know the political affiliation of the people that came on those buses. There sure were a lot what appeared to be southerners based on accents. It wasn't 1 bus, it wasn't 2 buses. This was a thriving industry that many people were all too happy to partake.
There was another " market" for knockoff goods that was as bustling as any mall during the Christmas holidays. The throngs of people that flocked there from out of state was mind boggling.
What's the point of my post? Its not to argue for vendors selling knock off goods. Its how many people profit from what the sellers did. From the people from out of state organizing bus trips to local hotels that filled up during these trips.
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