I'm Brian Lairr on WNYC.

For all the talk you probably heard about the large number of asylum seekers coming to New

York in the last year, that talk for most of you would have been primarily in English reporting

on people who primarily speak Spanish.

Now we're going to invite some of you who are bilingual to call in and report on what you're

seeing or hearing in the Spanish language press about the asylum seekers and reaction to their

arrival in various Spanish-speaking communities in and around the city. What are you seeing in Spanish

language media? 212-433-WNYC-212-433-9692 will also ask how you think Mayor Adams is doing

for Latino New Yorkers. One article making news right now is the one on political

called Eric Adams, No Abla Espanyol, about the mayor's apparent lack of effort to speak even a

little symbolic Spanish as a sign of caring as his Anglo-Predicesters Bill de Blasio and Mike

Bloomberg did no matter how lamely or comical. But here's Mayor Adams this past Sunday

at the Dominican Day Parade at the Dominican flag raising there. He starts in this clip by

praising Congressman Adriano S. Bayot have been happening in the Bronx. The first Dominican

immigrant elected to Congress. An American story coming to this country, not understand in

English, sit inside a classroom trying to navigate the challenges and complexities and it shows

the greatness of this country. You can go from one level to another level and now he's on a

congressional floor making policies that will impact all of us and all of these employees that I

have here that a part of this administration is reflective of the city. There's a real presence

of those who have Spanish as a second language or a first language a part of this administration.

We made history when we appointed my good friend and brother Eddie Caban to be the first Spanish

speaker police commissioner in the history of New York. We did it again with Commissioner

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