I recently saw a piece on Reuters called “Boon or threat? Mexico City wrestles with the influx of remote U.S. workers” which talked about how remote workers from the U.S ( Digital nomads) migrating to Mexico affected Mexico city residents. I want to write about how this affects Mexican immigrants here in New York. There were About 156,000 Mexicans living in NYC in 2019 according to the NYC mayor’s office of immigrant affairs. As of 2020, Mexico had a population of 128,932,753. There are a lot of Mexican immigrants in the tri-state area, and in NYC Sunset Park has a large Mexican community. In Sunset there is also the Mixteca organization which aims to help Mexican immigrants and other Latin American immigrants. The most common jobs for Mexican women are housekeeping and for Mexican men construction. Mexican people migrate to the U.S due to poverty in Mexico and the promise of more opportunities to make money in the U.S, this started in the 1940s when the U.s and Mexico created a labor program that encouraged Mexicans to migrate to the U.S as contract workers. This is why I want to focus my story on working-class Mexican immigrants in NYC and the effects that remote workers from the U.S moving to Mexico would have on them.
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