173: Tarjeteros
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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.
What are the main reasons for Dominican migration to the US?
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.
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And once they're in, they're treated like they belong. So ThreatLocker took what they already were doing and pushed it further with their Zero Trust Network Access and Zero Trust Cloud Access. So now access isn't just about logging in. It's about the device, the connection, and whether any of it should be trusted at all. If you want to see what Zero Trust looks like when it's done right, go to ThreatLocker.com slash Darknet. That's ThreatLocker.com slash Darknet. This is a story about a guy named Alberto Yussi Lajud Pena. He was born in the Dominican Republic. And when he was a teenager, his family immigrated to the United States, to Yonkers, New York, to be exact, which is about an hour north of New York City.
And by the way, Washington Heights, a neighborhood in New York City, has so many people from the DR, its nickname is Little DR. And for a lot of people, being in the big city fills them up with big ideas. opportunities seem endless anywhere you look in New York City. And I'm sure Alberto took trips to the big cities sometimes. I wonder how that affected him. I wonder if he wanted to be a dreamer, a hustler, or a struggler. He was enrolled in Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, New York. And he found some other kids there who were also from the Dominican Republic, like Elvis was one of his friends. He was also born in the DR and his parents immigrated to the US just like him. And these were the kinds of people Alberto gravitated towards as a teenager.
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