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Nwe York City blames illegal immigrants for its crime problem
American Thinker ^ | 01/09/2024 | Michael Letts

Posted on 01/09/2024 10:00:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind

It’s interesting how much Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams sounds like a Republican when he talks about the effects of illegal immigration on his city.

Unfortunately, he still sounds like a leftist when talking about how to deal with the problem.

Recently, he did it in such a way that if he had been a white Republican, he would have been publicly crucified.

During a news conference where he was asked about rising crime in the Big Apple, he blamed the illegal immigrants who are coming into the city and are unable to work here legally.

“When I talk about the devastation impact that the migrant and asylum seekers, people only think about the volume of people that are coming in. There are byproducts to this, cuts to services, like we had to postpone a police class, looking at some of the budgetary cuts, having a body of people, many young, who can’t work,” Adams said.

This is all correct, although it ignores why so many illegals are coming to the city. It is a lack of border enforcement by the politicians Adams and his administration support. He is part of the reason there is a problem.

He then said, “I mean you don’t even need an imagination to figure out that if you have someone four, five months, and say ‘you cannot work, you cannot feed your family, you cannot provide for yourself,’ what happens? You know, lack of opportunities, an idle mind is the devil’s workshop, as they say.”

This is where he takes it a step too far, at least if he had been a Republican. He blames illegals for rising crime.

The media excoriated President Trump for saying something like this when he was only blaming the worst of the illegals as being criminals,

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: crime; ericadams; illegals; nyc

1 posted on 01/09/2024 10:00:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah they were crime free until the Tx buses arrived.


2 posted on 01/09/2024 10:02:31 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: SeekAndFind

3 posted on 01/09/2024 10:05:33 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: SeekAndFind

We don’t have any problem with them committing a crime by crossing the border, we don’t blink an eye when they falsely claim amnesty, using the magic words NGOs gave them, and then were surprised when they engage in criminal conduct?


4 posted on 01/09/2024 10:06:55 AM PST by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/22/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: SeekAndFind

They’re not the ones behind the looting and gang attacks.


5 posted on 01/09/2024 10:09:04 AM PST by Ken H (Trump 2024)
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To: SeekAndFind

What, criminals and mentally ill released from 3rd world country prisons and mental health clinics, respectively, are a all of a sudden a problem for these anti-American lunatics? No, they’re simply the convenient stool pigeons to be used on demand.


6 posted on 01/09/2024 10:11:10 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Magnum44

LOL!


7 posted on 01/09/2024 10:11:33 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The crime problem has been from VIOLENT BLACK MEN for fifty years. They know it (even if they don’t admit it) and everyone else does, too.


8 posted on 01/09/2024 10:13:03 AM PST by Windcatcher
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To: SeekAndFind

Racists!


9 posted on 01/09/2024 10:13:35 AM PST by djpg
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To: SeekAndFind
Why are you retyping the headline instead of copy/pasting it?
Your headline will not come up in a search as it is.
10 posted on 01/09/2024 10:18:45 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

RE: Your headline will not come up in a search as it is.

Yes it will. Try it. I did. It’s in the keywords.


11 posted on 01/09/2024 10:20:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Read later


12 posted on 01/09/2024 10:32:59 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: SeekAndFind
The problem is that many people search for exact headlines.
So yours will not come up. If that doesn't matter to you, then keep on keepin' on.
13 posted on 01/09/2024 10:38:34 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: SeekAndFind

No Schiff Sherlock.


14 posted on 01/09/2024 11:39:49 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: SeekAndFind

York City gets the Mayor they vote for if you opt for crazy you get crazy it’s that simple.


15 posted on 01/09/2024 1:24:31 PM PST by Vaduz
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