Child labor is now commonplace in New York City’s subways. But because child laborers are sacred illegal immigrants, once proudly progressive city and state officials now look the other way and declare, “It’s not my problem.”
of new york times came out with report Wednesday brought about what every New Yorker already knows: the subways were crowded with children as young as 7, throwing candy bars and packs of gum at commuters, sometimes with adults, sometimes alone, and directly attacking children. He detailed that he was engaged in labor. -An Ecuadorian family landed in the Big Apple with no resources or connections in the area.
A scene unfamiliar to people in First World countries, but common in the places where many of these immigrants arrived, where children exercise outdoors during the week while their peers are at school, building empathy. We are using. Their work leads to earning a few extra dollars for their parents.
Immigrants wait outside the Roosevelt Hotel looking for a place to stay in New York City on August 2, 2023. (Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress via Getty Images).
“It’s like a postcard from my country,” said Soledad Álvarez Velasco, a social anthropologist from Quito who studies immigration from Ecuador to the United States at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There, you always see women with children in their arms, or with their children around them, selling whatever they can.” In the United States, “they do exactly what they do back home.” ‘I have,’ she said. ” new york magazine summer quotes report About the same issue.
Despite Mayor Eric Adams (D) insisting during a visit to Ecuador in October that “we will not tolerate children in a dangerous environment in New York City,” the newspaper reported. times,Score teethand no one in city or state government is willing to do anything about it.
Commendably, times She wrote that she contacted seven city and state agencies to ask about child labor on the subways, but all said they were someone else’s problem.
The Department of Education, the state Department of Labor, the Department of Children’s Services and the state Department of Children and Family Services all say they can’t be bothered. times report.
of times And police, the only authorities who can quickly respond to children before they are removed, insist they do not respond to non-emergency calls.
The paper writes:
There are logical hurdles to addressing this issue. By the time someone calls the state hotline and the report is evaluated and he is passed on to ACS, the candy vendor may have already moved on to another location. Police can respond more quickly, but typically only in emergencies.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subway, cited rules against unauthorized commercial activities (which carry a $50 fine) and directed police and City Hall to further investigate.
Heavily armed New York National Guard members patrol Grand Central Terminal in New York on Thursday, March 7, 2024. Gov. Cathy Hochul is deploying the National Guard to New York City subways to help police search passengers’ bags for weapons. (AP Photo/Mary Altafer)
On the other hand, unchecked illegality breeds further illegality.
A turf war has broken out over the “territory” of the train. new york magazine In the report, it said more migrants were boarding the subway to fight on certain platforms and threaten each other.
“Individuals and families who work in the same area tend to look out for each other, but they don’t necessarily get along. As more people ride the trains, there are more conflicts over territory. ” said a young candy and beverage vendor from Ambato, Ecuador, on the F train, pointing discreetly at a middle-aged man selling soda from an ice-filled cooler far below the platform. “He said bad things would happen if we kept selling here. This was his place and no one else’s.” new york magazine report.
They obviously work in areas so dangerous that just last week, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) had to deploy the National Guard to the subways. These soldiers screen the bags of more than 3 million commuters who use the underground transit system every day, even as foreign children illegally sell candy all around them.
The New York subways are a microcosm of the left’s approach, which is 180 degrees different from the ideals that built the modern Democratic Party. A system in which the military patrols the subways, and children are exploited through illegal labor on land ruled by gangs. FDR’s “progressive” party has nothing to say about this.
Emma-Jo Morris is the politics editor at Breitbart News.Please email her at ejmorris@breitbart.com or follow her upon twitter.
