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New York Mayor Eric Adams has just the job for the city's growing legions of illegal aliens, many of whom were bussed or flown in from distant locations like Texas where the illegal situation is far worse. But before I tell you what it is, I'm going to ask you to sit down and swallow that sip of coffee because I don't have the budget to replace everybody's keyboards.
Ready? OK.
Adams on Tuesday said the illegals should be hired as lifeguards — the city has quite a shortage — because “they’re excellent swimmers.”
Adams just turned the cringe up to 11, which is one cringier than most mayors.
This is where I'm required by law to add that if a Republican mayor had praised the swimming skills of people some folks used to call "wetbacks," we wouldn't hear the end of it until he'd been hounded from office and forced to endure public struggle sessions on each of the major broadcast news networks.
When Adams was running for the Democrat nomination in 2021, I wrote that if he stuck with his law and order platform, he'd be a step up from outgoing Mayor Bill DeBlasio in that one regard. Maybe he's a little better on law enforcement than DeBlasio was — not exactly a high bar to clear. But in every other respect, Adams is just as comically inept but in entirely new ways.
Anyway, I hope New York City needs a lifeguard at every swimming pool, dock, pier, and pothole because you wouldn't believe how many unemployed illegal aliens there are. A report out this week from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) shows that more than half of all illegal aliens are unemployed.
Maybe it isn't their fault. Maybe Presidentish Joe Biden's economy — which the Mainstream Media keep gaslighting you into believing is doing a rip-roaring job at generating jobs — just can't handle the influx of illegals that Presidentish Joe Biden let into the country. --->READ MORE HEREEric Adams is eviscerated for saying migrants can fill NYC lifeguard shortage because they are 'excellent swimmers':
New York City mayor Eric Adams is being eviscerated by critics after he claimed migrants could fill lifeguard openings because they are 'excellent swimmers.'
'How do we have a large body of people in our city that are excellent swimmers and at the same time we need lifeguards,' the Democrat said at a City Hall briefing on Tuesday.
'And the only obstacle is that we won't give them the right to work to become a lifeguard. That just doesn't make sense.'
Critics were quick to respond to Adams' comments, with many accusing him of racism, with New York's Immigration coalition said the mayor's comments were dehumanizing and divisive.
'New Yorkers are looking for Mayor Adams to unite our city, not foment more division,' said CEO Murad Awawdeh.
'His comments imply that because some immigrants had to swim or wade across water on their dangerous journeys to seek safety in the US, that they would make good lifeguards. This comment is racist.'
Social media users also weighed in on the controversy, slamming Adams for his remarks.
X user Michelle Backus wrote: 'You can’t make this stuff up…'
'That's a parody right.... right?' said another X user.
'He really needs to stop talking to the press,' added another critic.
Despite the heat, Adams' office has stood by his comments, with his communications chief Fabien Levy clapping back The City journalist Katie Honan when she questioned whether Adams was 'familiar with the months-long certification process to become a lifeguard?'
Levy shot back: 'Hmm … odd to keep assuming the asylum seeker crisis will be done by the end of the summer. It’s been 2 years and we have no indication Texas will stop sending migrants to NYC, yet there has been lifeguard shortages the whole time we’ve been in office.'
Adams is no stranger to controversial statements - last December he found himself in hot water after he invoked 9/11 to describe his year and emphasize the city's greatness. --->READ MORE HERE
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