Posted on 10/10/2023 8:43:55 AM PDT by Libloather
Migrants say they are still determined to make their way to New York City despite strong rhetoric from Mayor Eric Adams, who recently finished a four-day tour of Latin America.
Adams had embarked on a trip to Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and the Darién Gap, a dangerous jungle terrain between Panama and Columbia, where a large influx of migrants traveled through last month on their way to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Adams said that while the official position of the city is that the border should "remain open," they have made it clear there should be a "decompression strategy" so the Big Apple does not have to "carry the burden" of the national government.
"There is no more room in New York," he said. "Our hearts are endless, but our resources are not. We don't want to put people in congregate shelters. We don't want people to think they will be employed."
Despite this warning, more than a dozen migrants bound for the U.S. told The New York Times that Adams' comments would not deter them from reaching the city.
"I think he, as mayor, is defending his country," Johanna del Valle Acosta, a mother of three traveling from Venezuela, said.
"Suddenly, other countries see us as a threat, but we are good people who want to work."
On Friday in Quito, Carlos Gabriel Hernández revealed that he and his wife and two children had previously attempted to cross the Darién Gap. While the initial trip proved too treacherous, he said his family still has plans to reach New York.
Hernández said that he was offended to learn why Adams had decided to visit and claimed his arrival in the region would not change the minds of everyone coming through the border.
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There is no South American dream? Strange.
But you invited the poor “migrants”
Dumbass
Yes, there is: It's to leave South America...............
Send them to Chappaqua.
Send them to Chappaqua.
Adams is cognitive dissonance personified. “NY is a sanctuary city. But don’t come. We need to keep the national border open, just not the border of NY City. We love migrants. In theory. Just not here.”
Send another 50 bus loads.
Today.
L
***. “I think he, as mayor, is DEFENDING his country,” Johanna del Valle Acosta, a mother of three traveling from Venezuela, said.
Admission of invasion.
Nut won’t be happy until everyone is miserable.
Matched only by idiocy (or cold blooded evil).
As another poster pointed out, there should be PLENTY of american dreams in OTHER countries in this hemisphere.
We permit awful governments in central america by providing a safety valve for the folks with enough balls to DO something. So we get the ones that have some ambition and smarts to bus our tables so that corporate can keep lowballing us on our comp and getting darker complexioned folks that will vote properly.
Some of us saw the scam a couple of decades ago, Mr. Meyer -- and a putrid wiener you are too.
Here in Texas, the only thing I heard was that their hearts are endless.
We’ll start sending ‘em to ya by the trainload a$$$$hole.
“Adams is cognitive dissonance personified. “NY is a sanctuary city. But don’t come. We need to keep the national border open, just not the border of NY City. We love migrants. In theory. Just not here.””
+1 summary.
Yes. What about that sanctuary of social justice and economic fairness, Venezuela?
But at least Adams got a nice little trip out of it. Ah, those working vacations. Pony up, little taxpayers. Your betters got to "better."
“Send them to Chappaqua.”
And Fire Island and the upper West Side.
“There is no more room in New York,” he said. “Our hearts are endless, but our resources are not. We don’t want to put people in congregate shelters. We don’t want people to think they will be employed.”
Why do other states not get to claim a limit to room and resources? Adams is a great example of what happens when you push a foolish policy to it’s limit to demonstrate how foolish it is.
Now he’s crying uncle. Unlike governors who have always wanted an effective border, he was fine with it wide open until it started to bother him. Unlike his constitutes he’s getting what he deserves.
You are also criminals. You have broken US law--and shown contempt for US law, the USA, and the American People.
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