But like so many newly arrived before them, they were met not with open arms, but with discrimination and exclusion. The good paying jobs they were promised failed to materialize. Poverty was endemic. The press smeared them with the New York Mirror, describing Puerto Ricans as unskilled, uneducated, non English speaking and almost impossible to assimilate. in an active city of stone and steel. And yet, if there is one thing that Puerto Ricans in our city have done time and again, it has prove those who doubt and demean them wrong. (01:21–01:31)
CLAIM
Asserts that the New York Mirror described Puerto Ricans negatively in terms of skills, education, language, and assimilation.
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