The New York City mayor is in Latin America to dissuade migrants from coming to New York. Migrants say he’s disconnected from reality.
NEW YORK — A day before Mayor Eric Adams set off through Latin America on a mission to slow the flow of migrants to his city, Mariana and Abel Gomez arrived in New York following a harrowing weekslong trip from Venezuela.
The family’s comments were echoed this week in interviews with more than a dozen migrants in New York City, across Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan. Not one said they were lured to the United States by coordinated media campaigns that promised glitz and glamor, as Adams had suggested.
“People say they don’t want to come over here, but it’s tough over there,” said Juan Rodriguez, a 32-year-old father of four who had arrived in the city from Venezuela on Monday. “I traveled two months walking, by bus, with my children, passing through the jungle. Imagine everything that someone risks for a better future for their kids.”what he viewed as misinformation that migrants are receiving about what they’d find in New York.
Surrounded by police, Adams tours downtown Quito after a meeting with leaders on migration Oct. 6 in Quito, Ecuador. | Dolores Ochoa/AP “People come here to work and to improve themselves,” he continued while cutting a Togolese migrant’s hair. “How are they going to lie to you? Who is going to lie to you? You can’t lie because the majority of the people who are here, they have a family friend that tells them .”
Migrants arrive at The Roosevelt Hotel, the main migrant processing center in New York City, on Oct. 5. | Jason Beeferman/POLITCO
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