Jack Recider

This story takes place in Yonkers, which is about 30 minutes north of New York City.

And what I learned about Yonkers is that almost 15% of the people who live there have ancestry that traces back to the Dominican Republic.

Apparently, a lot of people migrate from the DR to Yonkers, New York, which made me wonder why.

And I've come to understand that they move from the DR to the US for three main reasons.

One, because they're a dreamer.

Two, because they're a hustler.

Or three, because they're a struggler.

The dreamers come chasing a bright new future where they can get good paying, steady work, a better life for their kids, and even legal citizenship.

The hustlers don't always follow the rules.

They're scrappy.

They're always on the lookout for new opportunities.

They're good at negotiating, and they're persistent.

And the strugglers, man, they just want to survive.

They don't have big plans, and they're not trying to find shortcuts.

They just want to do what it takes to get by, day by day.

These are true stories from the dark side of the Internet.

I'm Jack Recider.

This is Darknet Diaries.

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