‘This Is Not the America I Knew’
Young men sell clothing outside a migrant shelter in Brooklyn on July 21, 2023. (Photo by Spencer Platt via Getty Images)
The recent wave of nearly 130,000 migrants to New York City is angering Hispanic residents—enough to make them consider voting red.
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NEW YORK CITY — When Marcos Marte arrived in America thirty years ago, he took the first job he could get. Even though he’d graduated with an engineering degree back home in the Dominican Republic, where inflation was reaching double digits, he found himself in a factory line in Long Island, New York. For 16 hours a day, he raced to pull defective steer…
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