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Opinion The migrant crisis needs a solution. Fix it in these six steps.

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January 18, 2023 at 2:27 p.m. EST
Venezuelan migrant Noengris Garcia, left, listens to a fellow migrant at their encampment outside Sacred Heart Church in downtown El Paso on Jan. 8. (Andres Leighton/AP)
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Eric Adams, a Democrat, is the mayor of New York.

It isn’t often that the mayor of New York travels to El Paso. But our cities are dealing with the same humanitarian crisis, about 2,000 miles apart: migrants pouring in from countries, many with failing governments, in Central and South America and the Caribbean. So I went down to the southern border this week to see for myself why this emergency has become so challenging.