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Showing Original Post only (View all)Irony Meter Explodes as Migrants Lured TO Florida for Hurricane Ian Cleanup [View all]
https://www.thedailybeast.com/irony-meter-explodes-as-migrants-lured-to-florida-for-hurricane-ian-cleanupMigrants are reportedly being transported from New York City to Florida for work supporting cleanup efforts in the wake of Hurricane Ianweeks after the governor put migrants on a flight to Marthas 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, wed 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 Marthas Vineyard to protest the hypocrisy of the Biden administrations border policies.
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https://nypost.com/2022/10/02/nyc-migrants-pile-into-vans-they-say-are-headed-to-florida-for-hurricane-ian-cleanup/
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Irony Meter Explodes as Migrants Lured TO Florida for Hurricane Ian Cleanup [View all]
Nevilledog
Oct 2022
OP
Sounds like the Post just asked the actual participants on the scene, is all.
ancianita
Oct 2022
#15
Sounds like the Post just asked the actual participants on the scene, is all.
ancianita
Oct 2022
#25
DeSantis' great grandparents came here from Italy, looking for work in the early 1900's
NullTuples
Oct 2022
#10
No shit. And it was piecework. You got paid by how how you picked, at least for fruit.
captain queeg
Oct 2022
#34
Do we even bring up that out of 37 industrialized nations only one does not have nation health care?
NullTuples
Oct 2022
#33
So is it true that Fla. has a budget surplus that could help with hurricane costs?
Pepsidog
Oct 2022
#23