This is CBS Eye on the World with John Batchler. Here's John Batchler.

Migrants are a global story, the Mediterranean Basin, certainly in Central America, but migrants

are a story in New York City. And I tell that story thanks to Harry Segal and the city.

He's a senior editor at the City and online journal I highly recommend, following the recovery

from the pandemic and the way forward. However, the migrant story is now overwhelming the

homelessness, the disorder in the streets, the questions about rikers, and certainly

the revenue plunge that's coming because the office buildings are not replenishing

the way they did before the virus. However, the migrant story is pressing because we have,

the numbers can move between 60,000 and 100,000 people with Spanish and French and Arabic.

In New York, with no place to go but New York, they've been told they can work. I welcome

Harry Segal of the city to help me tell this story. Harry, the beginning of this story from

my reporting is the Panama Darien Gap, the province of Darien, where young people, people with

children and babies pregnant women, could traverse a 60-mile triple cannibal jungle, extremely

dangerous and begin their long journey from Panama to the Mexican border, a prey of larceny

and other bad actors. But they reach New York and right now there's the puzzle about is New York

able to absorb by according to law to provide shelter and insustinance to these people.

The mayor of New York, Eric Adams, made a presentation on the west side within these last days

in which he was not positive. Does the mayor see a way forward? Good evening, Tudon.

Good evening, John. So the mayor has alternated between talk about how these migrants represent

the American dream and talk about which he just escalated in this talk on the upper west side,

how they are going to his words or the migrant crisis he corrected himself late and not they

is going to destroy New York City and said he sees no end in sight. This is the same mayor who

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