A hearing held earlier this week in New York by the Council’s immigration and hospital committees saw black migrants who have arrived in the city airing their grievances about public services they have been provided, including food and accommodation, with one woman even complaining that New Yorkers won’t learn Congolese languages.
The hearing drew over a thousand immigrants, mostly from countries in Africa, and many illegally in the country, with some claiming that they had been promised money, green cards or work visas if they attended.
While only 250 of them were allowed inside, the rest congregated outside in a park protesting.
The hearing was touted in a press release as aimed at African migrants in shelters to “understand how the [Adams] Administration is addressing language access barriers, cultural competency challenges, health needs, and other roadblocks.”
At one point during the hearing, which lasted for over SIX HOURS, the conversation turned to language services offered by the state, with some migrants complaining that Spanish and English speakers are given priority, and African immigrants are unfairly excluded.
It was then pointed out that many immigrants are illiterate and can only speak their native language and further suggested that New Yorkers “refuse to accommodate” by not learning those languages.
There are 3,000 languages spoken across Africa, with many having hundreds of different dialects.
At another point in the hearing migrants began complaining about the free food and housing they have been provided, saying it isn’t good enough.
They described the situation as “unacceptable,” and “shameful,” and even calling New York City “Anti-African, racist and Xeonophobic,” charging that the council is “responsible for this pain and suffering” that will affect migrants “for generations to come.”
At another point in the hearing, City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino challenged the complaints, noting “I’ve been listening to everybody speak and making demands on New York City to do MORE MORE MORE.”
“How much more are we supposed to do?” she urged, adding “this system is so overworked and overburdened. We don’t have the resources.”
“I have to ask you all, what motivated you to come here thinking the streets are paved in gold? They are not,” Paladino continued adding “people have come across the border illegally,” before other council members interrupted her and demanded she ask a pertinent question.
Here is the full exchange, with Paladino’s comments:
Mayor Eric Adams responded to the protests and complaints, stating that it is the Federal government’s responsibility to “finish the job they started.”
“As we have said repeatedly, the federal government needs to finish the job they started by providing an immediate pathway to work for the tens of thousands of migrants they let into this country,” Adam’s office stated.
It added that “We are exceptionally proud of the dignity and respect we’ve been able to provide these migrants, as well as everyone else in our care, but, make no mistake, New York City should have never been left largely on its own to manage this national humanitarian crisis.”
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Mayor Adams was quick enough to jump aboard the ‘sanctuary city’ bandwagon; now he’s reaping exactly what he was warned that kind of thinking sows.
Did u see this thing wearing a large rope of garlic around her neck calling my country racist because we didn’t kiss the butts of people with no worth, no skills and no reason to live here or anywhere else.
We don’t need to accommodate these worthless creatures at all. Once President Trump is bac kin office, they’ll all be GONE forever.
I wonder how many would show up for free English language classes? More to the point, how many would continue to show up after a week of such classes? After they find out it isn’t easy to learn a new language (yet expecting us to learn theirs).
Though sending their kids might be the best alternative. Young kids can pick up anew language without even realizing they have. They just need to be exposed to that language and not insulated by a community of people who only speak their native language. Heck, In “China Towns” people can go their whole lives only speaking Chinese. That’s not a good thing.
Much like the UK’s illegals, if you don’t like it, feel free to F off back to the country from which you originated.
Likewise, the migrants may wish to learn English, since they came across the US border in the first place. If they don’t like it here, they may leave, instead of complaining. New Yorkers don’t require knowledge of African languages in the first place. Easy to play the blame game when you have forced yourself on others who resent the intrusion in the first place, promulgated by a corrupted political system.
“I live ten times better here, and do nothing all day, than I did in my shithole home country, having to work 12 hours a day to survive, but I was told their was gold to be had for the taking so I want the US government to give it to me.”