NBC Reports on Latest Victims of Open Borders: Other Illegal Laborers
This is not satire: Hipster would-be socialists are exploiting workers, thanks to Biden’s border disaster
By Andrew R. Arthur on March 3, 2022
On February 28, NBC News ran a piece captioned “Undocumented day laborers face harsh work prospects due to immigration spike”. As hard as it is to believe, neither the headline nor the video itself is satire.
The primary focus is on workers at the corner of Division and Marcy Avenues in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, known as La Parada, or “the stop”. The voiceover explains, “This is a place where immigrant women find a job for the day, primarily doing domestic work. Every day, up to 150 women wait here, bargaining for hourly pay that is often below minimum wage”.
Why, exactly, would workers bargain for pay that falls below the state and/or federal minimum? The video continues: “Often, these day laborers are undocumented”.
Here’s the problem, according to NBC News: “With more women looking for work, there is more competition. Desperate to find a job and with little to no English, many new arrivals don’t negotiate their rate.”
The piece then flips to interviews with two Ecuadoran women recently released from ICE detention who have been here for a month and three weeks, respectively. Neither of them expressed any fear of harm back home because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group — that is, any of the grounds for asylum. Rather, they came to the United States purely for economic reasons.
https://cis.org/Arthur/NBC-Reports-Latest-Victims-Open-Borders-Other-Illegal-Laborers
