New York City Mayor Eric Adams took a four-day trip to Latin America. The trip ended on Saturday with the mayor calling for a “right to work” for illegal aliens in the United States.

Adams made a big show of going to Central and South America in the name of trying to discourage immigrants from making the trip to the United States. He ended the trip in Necocli, a northern Colombia town. This is where thousands of migrants start the trip across the Darien jungle into Panama, as they head for the U.S. Instead of speaking in a way that would discourage them from coming to the U.S., he spoke in favor of making it easier for illegal aliens to work in the United States. That’s a magnet, not a deterrent, for more illegal aliens.

He spoke from a dock where migrants take boats toward the Darien Gap jungle. Adams said countries in the region need to come together to find solutions for the Biden border crisis being felt in America cities, including New York. His idea is for the federal government to find ways for illegal aliens and asylum seekers to legally work 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.”

You can’t make this stuff up. What a clueless way to speak in a place where people are leaving to come to America, legally or not. He wasn’t exactly given the warm welcome he probably thought he would receive. He was heckled by some of the locals. ‘It will increase the amount of violence against migrants across the United States,’ the heckler said. One person said, ‘Shame on you Eric Adams.’ Another person held a sign that said, ‘Go back to New Jersey you migrant hating creep’. Heh. New Jersey. That must have stung.

The people were right, though. It was a vanity tour by Adams. He encouraged illegals to come to his city by advertising it as a sanctuary city. He assured people that legal status would not be checked in the city. What did he expect would happen? Of course they came. It isn’t just illegal aliens being bussed up to New York from Texas, either. They were coming long before Governor Abbott began sending illegal aliens to sanctuary cities.

The mayor called it a “fact-finding mission.” He said he was given a “true analysis” of the Darien Gap by Colombian officials and law enforcement.

‘This is a true learning experience of how Colombia has really shown a direction that we can all benefit from by analyzing what they are doing and how we can grow on what they are doing to show the humanity they deserve,’ said Adams.

According to Panama’s National Immigration Service, more than 200,000 Venezuelans crossed the Darien Gap this year on their way to the United States.

During his stop in Ecuador, the mayor met with migrants in a family shelter and stopped short of telling them not to come to the city. .

The mayor’s vanity tour is finished now. He can go back to New York and blame his problems with illegal aliens overwhelming the city’s services on everyone else but himself. He accomplished nothing.