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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Daniel Shailer

NYC mayor to residents of Puebla, Mexico: 'Mi casa es su casa,' but 'there's no more room'

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams brought a mix of messages to central Mexico's Puebla state on Thursday, as he tried to carefully walk the line of mayor of a city known for welcoming migrants from around the world, but currently struggling with a continuing influx of asylum seekers.

Inside Puebla's ornate state congress building, decked floor-to-ceiling in cream-yellow Portuguese tiles broken only by Greco-Roman columns, Adams focused on the ties binding his city and a Mexican state that has sent some 800,000 of its people to New York over the years.

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