Eric Adams
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No, we're not welcoming them. We've been very clear. We're not welcoming everyone. No, everyone's sin. We say when they're here and they're following the rules and they're paying their taxes, they're doing the things that people are supposed to do. My focus are those who are harming innocent citizens.
Right. And how do you address that?
Right. And how do you address that?
Right. And how do you address that?
Well, there's a couple of things to that. I think you address it by controlling our borders. And we've allowed the immigration issue to control us instead of controlling it. Because this is what I'm getting from my other mayors. My other mayors are saying across the country, Eric, we need workers. We have places in our city where we have population problems.
Well, there's a couple of things to that. I think you address it by controlling our borders. And we've allowed the immigration issue to control us instead of controlling it. Because this is what I'm getting from my other mayors. My other mayors are saying across the country, Eric, we need workers. We have places in our city where we have population problems.
Well, there's a couple of things to that. I think you address it by controlling our borders. And we've allowed the immigration issue to control us instead of controlling it. Because this is what I'm getting from my other mayors. My other mayors are saying across the country, Eric, we need workers. We have places in our city where we have population problems.
We have places like in Kentucky, they need backstretch workers. Here, I need nurses. I need other professionals. I need food service workers. We in dire need of workers in this country. Now, if we would have said, when you come into the country, you're not going to go where you want to go. You're going to go to the city where we need you.
We have places like in Kentucky, they need backstretch workers. Here, I need nurses. I need other professionals. I need food service workers. We in dire need of workers in this country. Now, if we would have said, when you come into the country, you're not going to go where you want to go. You're going to go to the city where we need you.
We have places like in Kentucky, they need backstretch workers. Here, I need nurses. I need other professionals. I need food service workers. We in dire need of workers in this country. Now, if we would have said, when you come into the country, you're not going to go where you want to go. You're going to go to the city where we need you.
Stay there for three years, four years, and then you could decide to go anywhere else.
Stay there for three years, four years, and then you could decide to go anywhere else.
Stay there for three years, four years, and then you could decide to go anywhere else.
No, no, they working there. So do the indentured servants. They're not doing it for free. And if you want to come, if we control the border and make sure prior to people coming in that you know where you're going and what you're doing and not this free fall that we're seeing right now. That is where the crises lie. Real immigration reform and securing our borders.
No, no, they working there. So do the indentured servants. They're not doing it for free. And if you want to come, if we control the border and make sure prior to people coming in that you know where you're going and what you're doing and not this free fall that we're seeing right now. That is where the crises lie. Real immigration reform and securing our borders.
No, no, they working there. So do the indentured servants. They're not doing it for free. And if you want to come, if we control the border and make sure prior to people coming in that you know where you're going and what you're doing and not this free fall that we're seeing right now. That is where the crises lie. Real immigration reform and securing our borders.
And I said it over and over again.
And I said it over and over again.
And I said it over and over again.
That's exactly. Here in New York, we've cut unemployment in those communities that you're talking about by over 20%. because you're right, we need to make sure while we're filling those jobs, we need to make sure that we're looking after those who are in this country for whatever reason had barriers to employment.