Mayor Eric Adams started his four-day trip to Latin America, where he is expected to try to dissuade migrants from coming to New York City.

Adams says he wants to counteract a message of what he said are false promises being spread to Latin American migrants that if they come to New York, they will be given everything that they need.

“Coming to New York doesn’t mean you’re going to stay in a five-star hotel. It doesn’t mean the mere fact you come here, you’re automatically going to be allowed to work,” Adams said at a press conference Tuesday.

Critics and political observers say many, including the U.S. government, have tried and failed to get this message across in the past.

“The Department of State, I think last year, started a very huge campaign in South and Central America telling immigrants, ‘Don’t travel to the United States because it’s very dangerous and we don’t have space here. If you arrive illegally to the United States, you will be deported, you will return to your countries.’ But we are seeing what is happening. This campaign is not working,” said Jesús García, managing editor of El Diario NY. “So, again, I don’t think Mayor Adams is going to do anything there.”

“It’s a huge issue that can’t be held, can’t be stopped by the message of the mayor,” Nadia Sanders, an investigative journalist based in Mexico. “It is true that there is a lot of misinformation used by smugglers, by human traffickers, to benefit, take profits from the needs of the people from Central America and other countries, who are trying to run away from violence and this economic crisis.”

Adams attended an economics and policy forum in Mexico City Tuesday evening.

Adams later had dinner with Mexican business leaders and investors, where he also delivered some remarks. He was also scheduled to visit the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a famous holy site.

On Friday, Adams will travel to Ecuador to meet with local and national officials.

He will then travel to Bogotá, Colombia on Saturday. During Adams’ trip in Colombia, he will visit the Darién Gap, a 60-mile dense rainforest that is considered one of the most treacherous parts of the route for migrants. It is a crossing between Colombia and Panama.

According to city officials, roughly 3,700 migrants arrived in the city last week.

Adams is expected to travel back to New York City on Sunday.