COLOMBIA PORT CITY – Mayor Eric Adams was booed Saturday as he walked through the Colombian port city that tens of thousands of migrants use each year to reach the Darien Gap, the treacherous jungle trail that smugglers use to take them from South America. South to North America.
“Shame on you, Eric Adams!” a man shouted in English at Hizzoner as he asked him questions about the tour through Necoclí, according to a video from local media.
“The amount of violence against migrants across the United States will increase!” the man shouted, apparently in response to Adams’ recent comments telling asylum seekers not to come to the Big Apple.
Several others gathered to protest the Big Apple mayor in the port city with another man holding a sign that read “Go back to New Jersey, you immigrant-hating idiot.”
Speaking to local media, Adams said Colombian officials and law enforcement gave him a “true analysis” of the Darien Gap on Saturday as part of his fact-finding mission to the country, which included a helicopter flyover of the dangerous land.
“For us in my delegation it was crucial to come here and participate on the ground,” Adams said in Necoclí.
Mayor Eric Adams was booed Saturday as he walked through the Colombian port city that tens of thousands of migrants use each year to reach the Darien Gap.AP
“This is a real learning experience of how Colombia has really shown a direction that we can all benefit from by looking at what they are doing and how we can grow in what they are doing to show them the humanity they deserve.”
The mayor also renewed his call for a coordinated response from all countries affected by the migration crisis.
Before traveling to Necoclí, which is located on the eastern coast of the Gulf of Urabá, Adams was taken to undisclosed parts of the Darién Gap, on the other side of the gulf connecting Colombia to Panama.
The journalists who followed the mayor could not make the trip for security reasons.
Colombian police prohibited Adams from entering the breach, only allowing him to see the entrances and talk to the migrants, the mayor told reporters Saturday night.
The national forces gave the mayor an aerial view of the jungle to the border with Panama.
“It gave us a good image,” Adams said.
The mayor described a depressing scene of hundreds of migrants on the beaches of Necoclí waiting for boats to take them across the bay sleeping in tents.
“There’s no place that’s really sanitary,” he said, adding, “It was just a sloppy environment.”
“Shame on you, Eric Adams!” a man shouted in English at Hizzoner while he asked him questions about the tour through Necoclí, according to a video from local media.AP
“What I don’t want is for what happened on the beaches of Colombia to be repeated on the streets of New York.”
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Colombia was Hizzoner’s final segment of his four-day tour of Central and South America on Saturday, part of a trip he promoted as an opportunity to speak directly to migrants and give them “a real story of what’s happening in the city.” from New York”.
The mayor is expected to brief the press later Saturday about his trip.
Hizzoner was on Saturday in the final segment of his four-day tour of Central and South America, part of a trip he promoted as an opportunity to speak directly to migrants and give them “a real story of what is happening in the city.” from New York”. “
“Let’s tell them that coming to New York doesn’t mean you want to stay in a five-star hotel,” Adams said before the trip. “That doesn’t mean that when you come here, you’ll automatically be allowed to work.”
But most of the mayor’s tour was spent making connections with local leaders and politicians while calling for a global response to the migrant crisis.
When Adams met with more than three dozen migrants at a shelter outside Quito, Ecuador, on Friday, the Post revealed that he had not made his case to the families who had fled Venezuela.
The mayor has repeatedly said that immigrants were receiving misinformation about the Big Apple’s generosity, prompting thousands of people to come to the city.
The Post spoke to more than a dozen immigrants and shelter workers during the trip, but all said they had heard nothing about what life in New York City would be like before deciding to make the trip.
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