(Oh, So Now You Need Them): Irony Meter Explodes as Migrants Lured TO Florida for Hurricane Ian Cleanup

Irony Meter Explodes as Migrants Lured TO Florida for Hurricane Ian Cleanup (The Daily Beastlink): Migrants are reportedly being transported from New York City to Florida for work supporting cleanup efforts in the wake of Hurricane Ian—weeks after the governor put migrants on a flight to Martha’s Vineyard. 

Over the weekend, scores of Venezuelan migrants were boarding vans heading to the Sunshine State from a pickup point in Queens, despite having little information about who they would be working for, the New York Post says. 

“They want us for hurricane cleanup, we’d get paid $15 an hour, overtime and $15 for food daily, I think,” Javier Moreno, 37, told the paper, adding that a woman named Camila“from an organization” approached him with a flier about the work. “I'm going for the work,” Moreno added. 

News of their journey south comes after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis controversially flew migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard to protest the “hypocrisy” of the Biden administration’s border policies.

NYC migrants pile into vans they say are headed to Florida for Hurricane Ian cleanup (The New York Postlink): 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. 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.”

Another woman asked a Post reporter, “Do you know what kind of work we’ll be doing there?”

On Sunday, a slew of migrants had lined up as early as 8 a.m. at the spot at Junction Boulevard and 32nd Avenue to catch a bus to Florida, witnesses said.

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