And group of Venezuelan migrants with theirs families Were invited to a dinner on the occasion of Feast of the Three Kingswhere they also received gifts in accordance with this traditional catholic holiday.
The evening was organized by Hispanic Federation in New York in the neighborhood of Harlem, which today has become the Latin neighborhood par excellence in New York, and saw the participation of the Commissioner of Immigration of the Office of the Mayor of New York, Manuel Castro, as well as the vice president of the municipal legislative chamber, Diana Ayala.
The president of the Hispanic Federation, Franca Mirandastressed that the evening is inspired by a feast of the Three Kings which means, above all, a welcome to the newcomers, and has a reason to be in New York to be this “essentially a city of migrants, which welcomes everyone regardless of their origins”, according to a statement from the Federation.
Diana Ayala said for her part that immigrants continue to arrive New York and “it is important that they are welcomed “with an appearance of tradition and culture, and with a sense of normality”, and in this sense the feast of the Three Kings allows families to get in touch with each other while maintaining their own customs.
Over 31,000 migrants have arrived, almost all of them Venezuelans New York over the past five months, much has been eliminated by the governor of Texas Greg Abbottwhich thus seeks to distribute the migratory load arriving at the US-Mexico border and to transfer it to what it calls “the cities progressives“, that is governed by democratic mayors.
With information from EFE
