The New York Times is blessing the city’s population of illegal migrant street vendors as noble martyrs, despite the diverse economic damage they impose on ordinary New Yorkers.
\n\nThe article’s headline, “For Senegalese Street Vendors in New York, ‘Work Is Worship,” obscures the reality that the poor illegal migrants survive by selling knockoff products, paying higher rents by crowding into apartments, and by dodging the property and city taxes paid by normal retailers.
\n\nBut all is forgiven, perfumed, and downplayed by author Aimee Ortiz as she trills about the migrants’ diverse lawbreaking:
\n\nMost days, Khadim Ndiaye wakes up in the apartment he shares with five people in the Bronx and heads down to Canal Street, where he sets up shop on the sidewalk. Cat-eye, oversize and aviator frames bearing familiar logos — Prada, Gucci, Fendi — are among the sunglasses he hawks to passers-by.
\n\nNearly all the migrants are men who have left their wives and families behind in Senegal.
\n\nOrtiz and her editors also wink at the cruel border policies that helped kill thousands of migrants during President Joe Biden’s term:
\n\nMr. Ndiaye, 33, is among the thousands of Senegalese migrants who have made their way across the Atlantic…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/
