Thread: Venezuelan asylum seekers are being VOLUNTARILY transported from NYC to FL for hurricane cleanup

NYC migrants pile into vans they say are headed to Florida for Hurricane Ian cleanup

Scores of Venezuelan migrants in New York City are hopping on vans to head down to Florida for Hurricane Ian clean-up, they told The Post. The migrants had scant information about whom they would be working for, but they still piled into vans in Queens that they said were headed to the Sunshine State over the weekend. "They want us for hurricane cleanup, we'd get paid $15 an hour, overtime and $15 for food daily, I think," said Javier Moreno, 37, noting that a woman named Camila "from an organization" approached him with a flier. "I'm going for the work. It's been hard for us migrants to find work here in New York, that's why a lot of us are going. How's the work in Florida?"

A driver of one of the vans at the designated pick-up site, a corner in Corona, told The Post on Saturday that he was headed to Florida. He said he was under contract with a water and debris company. The firm did not answer its phone despite repeated attempts to call by The Post. "I'm taking these people in the van straight to Florida tonight," the van driver said. "I don't know how many people have left or how many more vans are coming." The migrants were leaving city shelters in droves to try to catch a ride — and garner work — down south.

One migrant woman said she learned of the vans and the potential work from group chats that the migrants are in. "We all decided we would go," she said. Asked who was offering the work, she said, "I don't know anything, sweetheart."

NYC migrants pile into vans they say are headed to Florida for Hurricane Ian cleanup


The article states that both FEMA and the mayor's office stated they were not involved in this transfer, but that Florida officials did not respond to requests for comment.

God bless these hard-wording individuals who have endured so much.

Hopefully they'll be returned back to NYC. We don't need them here.