Mayor Eric Adams of New York Travels to Italy to Discuss Migration Crisis Solutions with World Leaders

Mayor of New York, Eric Adamshas traveled to Italy, where he hopes to “share ideas and strategies” to solve the crisis migration that the city has been facing for two years, according to what he said this past Friday.

“I travel to Rome because the solutions The problems facing our city, our country and our planet must be solved together, share ideas and strategies,” he said in a message on his X account.

According to the Democrat, he will talk to leaders there about it infrastructure, climate changethe crisis of asylum seekers” and much more.

In a video taking the flight, Adams said he was heading to Italy “to find our common ground, how we treat people. ” immigrants already the asylum seekers“, after which he will hold a meeting with Pope Francis in the Vatican.

This is a three day trip where you will attend the Global Meeting forward Human Brotherhoodwhich brings together Nobel Prize winners, athletes and celebrities who speak out against the “many forms of violence and wars” around the world.

In the past two years, New York has welcomed nearly 200,000 immigrantsmost Venezuelans and Latin Americans -and, recently Africans-, many sent first by the Republican governor of Texas, Gregg Abbott, but also arriving alone after crossing the border or from other states.

New York was first policy of open doors to newcomers, but the steady flow forced Adams to impose limits, arguing the fiscal burden of providing them with shelter, food, early childhood education, health services and assistance with asylum applications and work permits.

Italy, like the United Kingdom, has taken strict measures to make it possible exclusion – which I could not do in New York, subject to the immigration control of federal laws – against the flow of immigrants to its shores in North Africa and Albania.

One of the measures adopted by the Italian Government is against adults undocumented who lie about their age to pass themselves off as minors, who are protected, so that they are not returned.

In October last year, the United Kingdom and Italy asked the European Union to take stricter measures against him illegal immigration.

Adams met today with the mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieriand toured the construction of the Colosseum metro station in Rome and the “urban renewal” by Testaccio, a project to turn the site of a large slaughterhouse into an art campus, according to the New York Times.