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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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Mayor Adams scratched his head in disbelief: “Here we have a large body of people in our city, our country, that are excellent swimmers and we also need lifeguards — the only obstacle is that we won’t give them the right to work to become a lifeguard,” the mayor ended disconsolately.


21 posted on 05/14/2024 11:54:46 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

🙄🙄🙄


22 posted on 05/14/2024 11:55:41 AM PDT by nutmeg (FJB)
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To: Sacajaweau

Me, too; but then I remembered that this guy is always stepping in it.


23 posted on 05/14/2024 11:55:48 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Red Badger

Black folks pride themselves on rhythm and the ability to sing and dance....but I’m not sure that’s ever saved a life.....swimming however......


24 posted on 05/14/2024 11:56:01 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Sam Gamgee

They’ve drowned there, too.


25 posted on 05/14/2024 11:56:45 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

NYC, vote for more retards.


26 posted on 05/14/2024 11:58:00 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, they did swim the Rio Grande. 🤡


27 posted on 05/14/2024 11:58:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Roadrunner383

Because all of their best swimmers came to the U.S.


28 posted on 05/14/2024 12:00:30 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: V_TWIN

They teach CPR to the beat of Staying Alive.


29 posted on 05/14/2024 12:01:47 PM PDT by Freest Republican (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by imbeciles)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Are we getting illegal immigrants from Australia? I do not recall Venezuela dominating Olympic swimming events.


30 posted on 05/14/2024 12:09:36 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: V_TWIN

In my experience blacks are poor swimmers. Not a sport they enjoy. The things that make them excellent sprinters and jumpers make them poor swimmers, as a group.


31 posted on 05/14/2024 12:11:05 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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

How insensitive, I can’t believe Trump said this.


32 posted on 05/14/2024 12:13:19 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wetbacks are excellent swimmers said the dumb black libtard mayor


33 posted on 05/14/2024 12:14:41 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not the Bee?

The Bee should hire Adams as a Contributor.


34 posted on 05/14/2024 12:18:08 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well they did swim across a river to get here. /s


35 posted on 05/14/2024 12:21:07 PM PDT by Osage Orange (ooooOO)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

The coach of this year’s US men’s Olympic swim team is a black guy named Anthony Nesty a gold medal winner fr Trinidad Tobago.

It’s confusing to me too.


36 posted on 05/14/2024 12:22:30 PM PDT by Freest Republican (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by imbeciles)
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To: Tax-chick
You know Biden was a lifeguard! And a pilot, gunowner, etc.

But most of all he has been a LIAR all his pathetic life.

37 posted on 05/14/2024 12:24:21 PM PDT by Osage Orange (ooooOO)
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OMG...I laughed when I thought it was that dude who wrote Dilbert.


38 posted on 05/14/2024 12:24:40 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

That idea may have begun because in past times, Black people who grew up in urban areas didn’t have a lot of opportunity to swim; but now they do and lots of them enjoy it and swim well.

There’s a similar old canard about Blacks disliking dogs. Some of the most avid dog breeders and dog-show participants that I know now are Black.


39 posted on 05/14/2024 12:27:01 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: V_TWIN

You know, maybe he could ask the black unemployed to work as a fry cook in a chicken restaurant.


40 posted on 05/14/2024 12:29:13 PM PDT by OLDCU
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