Mayor Adams wraps up Latin America trip with call for 'right to work' for migrants in US

[Judi Lynn]

by ASTRID SUAREZ Associated Press and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press
October 8, 2023

NECOCLI, Colombia (AP) — Mayor Eric Adams capped off a four-day trip to Latin America on Saturday by calling for a “right to work” for migrants in the United States.

He spoke during a visit to Necocli, the northern Colombia town where thousands of migrants start the perilous trek across the roadless Darien jungle into Panama, as they head for the U.S.

Speaking from a dock where migrants take boats toward the jungle, Adams said countries in the region need to “come together” to find solutions to the immigration crisis being felt across the Americas as well as in cities in the United States, including New York.

He called on the U.S goverment to find pathways for migrants and asylum seekers to work legally in the United States.

“When you look at Colombia they have really shown how to absorb individuals into their societies, and one of the most important ways to do it is to allow people to work,” Adams told reporters in Necocli. “Nothing is more humane and, nothing is more American than your right to work, and we believe that is a right we should extend.”

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(Another genius. He really doesn't know Latin American history. or give a rat's patootie that International corporations in Latin America hire mercenaries to terrorize, torture and murder wildly underpaid and abused workers who try to form unions. That's the kind of crap which drives these helpless people out of the country, trying to find work somewhere else, simply to keep their loved ones alive.)