Brian Lyre on WNYC. Did you hear that Mayor Adams is going to Latin America today?

A three-country trip, Ecuador, Colombia, and Mexico, his goal.

I want to give the people of those areas a real story of what is happening in New York

City. There's a public relation campaign that people are using in these areas to state

that if you come to New York that you're going to get whatever you need, I want to get

them a true picture of what's taking place. This country has always been a country that

allowed immigrants to come in. We want to make sure we do it in a responsible way with

a real decompression strategy. And then we want partnerships. I want to talk with those

leaders. I believe we're going to be able to meet with the president of Colombia. I

spoke with the ambassador the other day. We're going to meet with leaders in Ecuador, leaders

in Mexico, and really start having a conversation as cities of what can we do better to deal

with this crisis.

And what is that true picture of what is here as the mayor sees it? Well, we'll hear

more of the mayor from his news conference yesterday on this latest effort to deal with

the large number of asylum seekers from the region coming to New York. Our chief mayor

Adams reporter, Liz Kim from our people in power desk at WNYC and Gothamist joins us

now to talk about this trip and other things Eric Adams, including his new court filing.

This just came late yesterday to end the right to shelter policy as it currently exists.

The controversy over how he and others in his administration handled or mishandled the

record rain storm last week. How he's limiting open questions from the press to once a week

beginning this week. And maybe more. Hi, Liz, always good to have you on the show. Good

morning, Brian. Here's more of the mayor yesterday on how he hopes to talk to the people

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