By Luis de Jesus
06 Oct 2023, 21:02 PM EDT
Eric Adams, mayor of New York, said this Friday that the immigration crisis must be faced internationally jointly as was done with the covid-19 pandemic.
“We have been treating this human mobility problem as if it were a small cold when in reality it is an aggressive virus,” he said in an appearance in Quito, Ecuador.
The New York mayor is in Ecuador as part of a tour of Latin America, which includes Mexico, Colombia and Panama. The agenda, the official indicated, is due to his interest in understanding the reality of the countries of origin of the migration that arrives in his city.
In addition to knowing the actions that their governments are taking to prevent the mobilization of citizens, which is surrounded by risks, and combat the misinformation of irregular migration networks that put the lives of thousands of people at risk through a dangerous route. , where the most vulnerable are children.
“To manage (this problem), we have to properly diagnose how we are and design the appropriate treatment to solve it. “The numbers don’t lie, we have basically tripled the number of immigrants and people seeking asylum around the world,” she noted.
“But we have not made the change in mentality necessary to manage the crisis as we have it today. In this region of the Americas we have witnessed a crisis that is worsening over time and has not stabilized in this period,” added Adams.
Adams, during his visit to Quito, was at the Jesuit Refuge Center and the Gotitas de Oblation Foundation and at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility with several ministers of the Ecuadorian government.
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