New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Thursday he was coming to the southern border this weekend. His trip was abruptly canceled on Saturday.
It would have been a timely trip, given the national coverage of illegal aliens storming a razor wire fence in El Paso earlier in the week. Adams was invited to go to Mexico by Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in San Juan. It would have been his second trip to Texas since Biden’s border crisis began.
“As Lent draws to a close, our team was excited to stand with faith and humanitarian leaders who have dedicated their lives to serving the most needy among us, and we were eager to discuss our work in New York City and explore new ways to collaborate with leaders in cities across the country,” mayoral spokeswoman Amaris Cockfield said in a statement Saturday.
“But due to safety concerns at one of the cities we were going to visit in Mexico flagged by the U.S. Department of State, we have decided to pause this visit at this time,” Cockfield said.
No information has been provided on which city was determined to be unsafe.
The trip would have marked his latest attempt to draw attention to the financial burden that illegal aliens are putting on New York City. Adams wants to pressure the Biden administration to send money to the city. Adams is no stranger to canceling trips at the last moment. Last November he was in route to Washington, D.C. for meetings at the White House about support for the city’s illegal alien crisis when he learned the FBI raided the home of his chief fundraiser as part of an investigation into his 2021 mayoral campaign. He returned to NYC instead of continuing with this schedule.
