NEW YORK – New York warehouse owners are ready to hire “thousands” of immigrants recently arrived in New York, mostly Hispanics, as the vast majority of nearly 20,000 arrivals to the Big Apple are from countries in America Latina.
United Bodegas of America (UBA) launched this proposal on Wednesday to help alleviate the migratory burden in the city and its spokesperson, Fernando Mateo, said the city’s 15,000 bodegas, which employ to “about 100,000 people” currently need those thousands of employees, but they also added that they have to overcome the complicated state bureaucracy.
Immigrants, Mateo said, “come to work, to open businesses and create opportunities (…) they need jobs and we need workers. Plus, we speak their language,” he argued, insisting that the procedure for obtaining work permits is very complex, for which he asked that the federal government speed it up and thus allow the integration of these people.
Furthermore, and in an argument widely used by Americans, he added that “citizens do not have to pay for food, education, health or social services for immigrants. Immigrants should be able to earn a living in our city,” he stressed to reporters.
The UBA had summoned reporters to the entrance to the Eighth Avenue bus station, which is precisely where several thousand immigrants arrived, sent by bus by the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, without the slightest coordination with the CNY. Room.
Mateo recalled that New York has always been a land of welcome: “At the beginning of the 20th century, millions of emigrants came from Europe fleeing poverty and were welcomed. Well, we are experiencing exactly the same situation. Different times, same problems These migrants come to work “, he insisted.
The spokesperson praised the work the New York City Mayor’s office is doing with immigrants, providing them with housing, food and schools practically since their arrival, and then said the bureaucratic problem is at the federal level, and specifically with work permits.
In the last four months, more than 20,000 immigrants, mostly Venezuelans, have arrived in New York, which has put a lot of pressure on the city’s assistance system, which last week declared a state of emergency in the face of this situation. .
