Eric Adams, mayor of New York, will begin tomorrow a tour of Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia and Panama to meet with leaders of those countries and learn more about the reality that has caused the flow of thousands of immigrants arriving in the American city in the last year.
The first stop will be this Wednesday in Mexico to attend the second edition of the North Capital Forum, an event of the US-Mexico Foundation that seeks greater integration of North America, and there it will discuss with local and national leaders about the problems on the southern border. and its impacts in New York.
On Thursday he will visit Puebla, where many of the immigrants living in the Big Apple come from, before continuing the trip to Ecuador. In Quito, he will visit organizations helping to deal with the asylum seeker crisis and meet with leaders to discuss the crisis in New York.
More than 100,000 immigrants have arrived in New York in the last year and at least 60,000 are in shelters provided by the city, which also provides them with food and other aid, which the mayor says has undermined finances and will lead to a deficit in 2025 of 12 billion dollars.
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Then, the New York mayor will travel to Colombia on Friday night, where the next day he will be in Bogotá and then travel from there to Darién, the jungle in Panama where thousands of immigrants pass through on their route to the United States.
Adams, who will return to New York on Sunday, has faced criticism from activists for this trip who accuse him of spending “unnecessarily taxpayer money” after having asked for cuts to agencies due to the fiscal crisis that he says the city is going through. due to the arrival of immigrants.
“If Mayor Adams really wants to learn more about the arduous journeys of asylum seekers seeking safety, he should spend a little more time talking to them or the organizations that serve them on the ground,” said the Immigrant Coalition. .
With information from EFE
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2023-10-03 02:07:00
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