Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s district in Queens, New York, has been likened by locals to a “Third World” country with people selling on the sidewalk and prostitutes openly soliciting sex.
The wide, vibrant and diverse communities of Corona, Jackson Heights and Elmhurst in northwestern Queens appear to have descended on an open flea market, according to the video. obtained by fox news.
Local resident Ramses Frias, a Democrat-turned-Republican, is running for the House District 39 seat to clean up local streets and illegal businesses selling clothes, sneakers, toys and snacks. I photographed several blocks.
“Like most like-minded residents, we consider this a Third World market,” Frias, 43, told Fox News Digital. “Basically, you just see clothes thrown on the floor. Items are stolen from donation bins, stolen from stores, or set up outside brick-and-mortar stores. They do these things. taking trade away from businesses and not paying taxes.”
“There are no consequences. They get a free pass,” Frias said. Streets are filled with illegal street vendors, and crime is steadily increasing in the neighborhood, he said.
On Wednesday, people believed to be sex workers were filmed soliciting men for sex outside a business, Frias said, and residents said the men were seen soliciting sex from men in makeshift brothels for sex. It is said that it has returned to .
“They do whatever they want. They’re open about it and they’re not careful,” Frias told the outlet. “They’re lined up in front of the pizzerias and 99 cent stores along 90th Street, just trying to get the guys over. You see multiple women in skimpy clothing. It’s cold right now, so… It’s a little covered, but it’s going to get worse in the summer.”
Only licensed vendors can sell food and merchandise in public spaces in New York, and prostitution is illegal in the Empire State.
Residents claim that illegal immigrants without work permits have been left on the streets to eke out a living.
In January, the New York Police Department spent a week busting more than a dozen brothels disguised as massage parlors that operated under “inhumane conditions.”
Mayor Eric Adams blamed the increase in prostitution in the neighborhood on the influx of Venezuelan female immigrants who are struggling to find other jobs in the Big Apple.
Mr Adams said the surge in “illegal” activity on the streets during the coronavirus pandemic was “just one example” of how the country’s ongoing immigration crisis was paralyzing cities.
“This is what happens when you create an atmosphere where people can’t support themselves. They can’t work, they can’t support their jobs, and they have to resort to illegal activities to do that,” the mayor told reporters. told. Crackdown on brothels in January.
