More than 130,000 immigrants have arrived in New York since mid-2022, according to local government reports, mainly due to the fake messages that these people receive on social networks.
Local authorities and the departments of Homeland Security and States have warned about the messages that smugglers publish on platforms such as TikTok and Facebookwhich states that New York City offers free housing and food to new arrivals.
These are false messages: people are not assured of a place to live, food and, much less, the possibility of working legally in the country.
According to a report by The New York Times, messages of false promises have led thousands of people to choose the Big Apple.
“[Los contrabandistas están] using this almost as a marketing tacticyou know, to say: go to New York City, because you will get x, y, z,” Manuel Castro, commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, told the Times.
The arrival of immigrants has remained at about 500 people per day, despite the efforts of federal and local authorities to dissuade them.
Even the mayor Eric Adams traveled to Mexico and Central America to understand how immigration works and what types of messages people fleeing their countries, such as Venezuela, Guatemala and Nicaragua, are receiving.
Adams even had an attempt on his trip to deny the lying messages that immigrants receive, even via Whats App.
In 2022, the State Department launched a campaign in Central America to warn immigrants of the dangers of traveling to the US and the problems they would face without entry authorization.
However, that hasn’t worked. Mexico, a transit country, reported a 62% increase in irregular immigrants.
In its bulletin of migration statistics in Mexico for the second quarter of 2023, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), dependent on the United Nations (UN), detailed that while between January and August 2022 there was a flow of 248,735 migrants in a situation irregular in the country, in the same period of 2023 the number rose to 402,324.
The majority are stranded because their destination is the United States, but the agreements between both countries allow policies to prevent the advance of these people.
“The city has tried to discourage immigrants from coming to New York by distributing fliers at the southern border warning that they have ‘no guarantee’ of housing, and is trying in court to modify its right to shelter policy to exempt immigrants. recent immigrants,” says a Times report.
With information from EFE
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