Return of the Primitive

Life will again be nasty, brutish and short

Arroz con racket: Brooklyn restaurant at center of illegal migrant-driven food-vending scheme

A dingy Brooklyn restaurant with a laundry list of revolting health violations is at the center of an illegal vending scheme involving dozens of migrant women, who hawk meals made in its filthy kitchen on street corners across the Big Apple, The Post has learned.

With growing concern over such unregulated and potentially dangerous operations popping up citywide, The Post tailed about a half-dozen pollo peddlers — illegal migrants mostly from Ecuador — who have commandeered choice spots to sell $10 plates of chicken and rice.

The food originates in a Dominican joint called Guisa’o Restaurant in Bushwick, where up to 50 migrants at a time squeeze into a tiny kitchen to cook the grub, which is then delivered in coolers by van to the illegal street sellers.

Histrionic prose aside (and it is the NY Post, after all), this is a typical example of the collision between modern western civilization and the third world. These immigrants would have fit in perfectly in mid-19th Century New York, when this was how food was prepared and sold by and to the Irish and other rough peasants. But our society, if not the Irish, adopted rules governing hygiene, minimum housing standards, and working conditions, and then enacted taxes and licenses, and hired people to enforce them. Landlords and food vendors must pay for all these higher standards; whether that’s an improvement over the freewheeling 1800s can be debated, but that’s the reality of the social contract we have evolved.

Except for the illegals, who do not feel bound by that contract, nor are they being obliged to by the government to which we surrendered some of our rights as free citizens so that they would enforce its terms. Filthy, unsanitary restaurants are just the tip of what these criminals have brought back into our modern world, and the deterioration is accelerating.