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

[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.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Picture what would happen if any Republican saying the same thing...

[Fledermaus]

Wow, not the Bee

[EvilCapitalist]

Does that mean we could call them Wetbacks?

[Tax-chick]

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

[teeman8r]

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

the bee just had to scrub their wetback lifeguard story.

[Sacajaweau]

That was my first thought, too.

[thinden]

not the bee?

[Chickensoup]

is he referring to WETBACKS????

[dfwgator]

And if Trump said this?

[EvilCapitalist]

The left would be screaming “Racism.”

[Red Badger]

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

[SkyDancer]

Beat me to it!

[V_TWIN]

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

[OHPatriot]

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.

[OHPatriot]

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.

[Sarah Barracuda]

If ANY Republican said this they would be gone today

[Sam Gamgee]

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

[Roadrunner383]

Why doesn’t Mexico have an Olympic team?

[logi_cal869]

I just heard about that on the radio, too.

Votes have consequences.

[SpaceBar]

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