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It's truly impressive how NYC can complain that its economy is failing because 400,000 NYC residents left the city for higher paying jobs and lower cost of living in Atlanta and Austin, depleting the NYC labor force and dooming small businesses...

And then without skipping a beat, complain that its economy is failing because tens of thousands of migrants seeking work, are coming to NYC looking for jobs, wanting to be part of the NYC labor force.

🙂🙃

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BN1WwnEDWAM 
 And before anyone says anything "Great replacement" adjacent...

NYC already had the most migrant heavy workforce of any major city on earth. 44% of NYC employees were born in other countries. Almost half.

Have you been to New York? Haven't you noticed that you can get great Shakshuka, Birria, Hummus, Tibs, Laksa, Biryani, Confit, Dim Sum, Pho, Shawarma, Jollof, Panang, All'Assessina, at like midnight, in any borough of the city?

And yes, it's still one of the safest major cities. Relax. 
 I'm not a racist xenophobe. I like the global south. I love its people, their kindness and love for each other, and the rich tapestry of cultures.♥️

🤔 But if I was a racist xenophobe, and I didn't want yucky Black and brown migrants coming here, then I would strongly consider *checks notes*  NOT making the global south uninhabitable by human beings.

I dunno, just a thought? Seems more practical than "Nah, ruin their climate! Then build a wall (fence) capable of blocking over a billion people!" 
 @af2dd916 But that would mean admitting that global warming is real, instead of being some "Jewish plot". 
 @af2dd916 I fear you're too charitable to racist xenophobes. Their desired outcome isn't to keep brown and black migrants out; it's for all the brown and black folks to mysteriously vanish, leaving that chunk of the world open for colonization by racist xenophobes who can pretend it was terra nullius all along. 
 @af2dd916 Dunno sounds pretty racist/xenophobic as fuck to me.