New NYC task force to push school on migrant kids selling food, drinks along roadways

The city has launched a new push to convince migrant kids to go to school instead of dangerously selling food and drink on the side of roadways.

A multi-agency task force quietly formed two months ago — consisting of staffers from the Administration for Children’s Services, Department of Education, and Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence — will now pivot to roadside outreach after The Post last week revealed how young migrant children were routinely peddling on major thoroughfares in southwest Queens .

The task force is currently focusing efforts at city shelters trying to convince migrant parents to send their kids to school.

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The new NYC multi-agency task force is trying to convince migrant parents to send their kids — like this girl selling candy on the Columbus Circle C train platform in Manhattan — to school, J.C. Rice
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A young boy sells fruit snacks on Cross Bay Boulevard in Queens near Belt Parkway. J.C. Rice

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