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Eric Adams suggests migrants could fill NYC’s lifeguard shortage — because ‘they’re excellent swimmers’
NY Post ^ | 05/14/2024 | Craig McCarthy and Emily Crane

Posted on 05/14/2024 11:45:28 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday suggested migrants should be hired to fill the city’s lifeguard shortage — because “they’re excellent swimmers.”

Hizzoner dropped the comment after being asked during a City Hall briefing about lifeguard staffing at the city’s beaches and pools, which have increasingly had issues in recent years, ahead of Memorial Day.

Going off on a tangent, Adams indicated that Gotham’s lifeguard shortages could easily be fixed if migrant work visas were being expedited for those jobs that needed to be filled quickly.

“How do we have a large body of people that are in our city, our country, that are excellent swimmers and at the same time we need lifeguards — and the only obstacle is that we won’t give them the right to work to become a lifeguard,” the mayor said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: adams; defundthepolice; ericadams; illegalaliens; lifeguard; migrants; newyork; newyorkcity; racist; showmethemoney; swaggermanwithnoplan; swimmers
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Picture what would happen if any Republican saying the same thing...
1 posted on 05/14/2024 11:45:28 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wow, not the Bee


2 posted on 05/14/2024 11:46:18 AM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Does that mean we could call them Wetbacks?


3 posted on 05/14/2024 11:46:23 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What if the wage for lifeguards was much “as it would cost to get people to work as lifeguards”?


4 posted on 05/14/2024 11:47:17 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: Fledermaus

i was amazed too that it wasn’t the bee...

the bee just had to scrub their wetback lifeguard story.


5 posted on 05/14/2024 11:48:43 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Fledermaus

That was my first thought, too.


6 posted on 05/14/2024 11:48:52 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: teeman8r

not the bee?


7 posted on 05/14/2024 11:49:37 AM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

is he referring to WETBACKS????


8 posted on 05/14/2024 11:50:12 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And if Trump said this?


9 posted on 05/14/2024 11:50:32 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

The left would be screaming “Racism.”


10 posted on 05/14/2024 11:51:23 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not many blacks though..................


11 posted on 05/14/2024 11:52:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Fledermaus

Beat me to it!


12 posted on 05/14/2024 11:52:42 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~A Bizjet Is Nothing But An Executive Mailing Tube ~)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Tell him blacks like watermelon and fried chicken and see what happens.


13 posted on 05/14/2024 11:52:48 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: EvilCapitalist

So who here would want to receive CPR from one of these Illegal Lifeguards????

They would most likely stomp on your chest and spit in your face while trying to revive you.


14 posted on 05/14/2024 11:52:59 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: EvilCapitalist

So who here would want to receive CPR from one of these Illegal Lifeguards????

They would most likely stomp on your chest and spit in your face while trying to revive you.


15 posted on 05/14/2024 11:52:59 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If ANY Republican said this they would be gone today


16 posted on 05/14/2024 11:53:21 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: ChicagoConservative27

At first it sounded like he was being facetious. Joking about them swimming the Rio Grande.


17 posted on 05/14/2024 11:53:29 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why doesn’t Mexico have an Olympic team?


18 posted on 05/14/2024 11:54:08 AM PDT by Roadrunner383 (m)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I just heard about that on the radio, too.

Votes have consequences.


19 posted on 05/14/2024 11:54:11 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Only a person of his protected ‘social stature’ could get away with such an incredibly tone-deaf and bigoted statement.


20 posted on 05/14/2024 11:54:28 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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