New York Mayor Eric Adams, traveling to Latin America today –MexicoEcuador, Colombia and Panamawill benefit from the opportunity to ‘counter campaigns that people send’ through social networks has made many people believefrom America and even from Africa, why When they go to that city, they will be accommodated in luxury hotels and will quickly find a job.

“We just want to give them the real story that the shelters are full and they won’t automatically find work.”said Adams, who again blamed Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott for what’s happening after he started sending immigrants to the Big Apple on buses last year.

The first stop will be this Wednesday in Mexico to attend the second edition of the North Capital Forum, a US-Mexico Foundation event that seeks to achieve greater integration of North America, where he will discuss with local and national leaders the issues at the southern border and their impact on New York.

On Thursday he will visit Puebla, where many of the immigrants living in the Big Apple come from, before continuing the journey to Ecuador. In Quito will visit organizations helping to address the asylum seeker crisis and meet with leaders to discuss the crisis in New York.

He will then travel to Colombia on Friday evening, where he will be in Bogotá the next day then he will travel from there to Darien, the jungle in Panama through which thousands of immigrants travel on their way to the United States.

More than 25,000 Ecuadorians crossed the Darién jungle in the first half of 2023

Adams announced that he will offer interviews with various media in those countries to convey the message not to come to New York.

“I have a crisis in the city I love and I have to confront that crisis on a local, state, national and international level,” he said.

The mayor of New York today accused Texas of it intensify sending buses of immigrants to New York, where the flow of undocumented immigrants has increased; In seventeen months, 118,000 people have arrived in the city, many of them Latin Americans and many Venezuelans.

For her part, the deputy mayor for health and human services, Anne William-Isom, said that Texas “has strengthened its bus activities”, during today’s press conference with the mayor and other members of his cabinet, although there are people who arrive by plane ‘or even on foot’.

In the past year and a half, approximately 210 shelters have been opened

This situation led to the city having to open 210 shelters, including hotels, and 17 humanitarian aid centers.

What are the 18,000 jobs that New York offers exclusively to migrants and asylum seekers?

The mayor warned that, due to the large number of people arriving in the city, LNew Yorkers will have to get used to seeing immigrants outside the Roosevelt Hotelwhere the recruitment center was established where all newcomers go.

Last July, hundreds of immigrants arriving in the city that month — including many from Africa — slept outside the hotel when spaces available to house them ran out, leading a legal group to accuse the city in court of failing to comply with the law that requires it to provide shelter to anyone who requests it, and the matter remains unresolved.

The increase in the number of immigrants forced the mayor’s office to do so launching a new campaign of flyers that will be distributed at the border and in shelters across the country to discourage them from coming to New York.

However, despite the humanitarian and fiscal crisis in the city, which faces a $12 billion deficit next year, Adams stated that the “official position” is that “the borders must remain open” and urged that a decompression strategy is being implemented to address the influx. of migrants.

Adams travels today to Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia and Panama, accompanied by members of his Cabinet and the security police to meet with leaders of those countries and learn more about what led thousands to emigrate, while presenting and presenting its impact in New York will try alliances to better control the situation.

About the US State Department warning Adams, who considers Colombia dangerous, acknowledged there is a “real risk” to his safety but said he trusts the protection of the city’s police. (JO)