OAN’s Brooke Mallory
4:26 PM – Tuesday, May 14, 2024
On Tuesday, Mayor Eric Adams proposed hiring illegal immigrants to make up for the city’s lack of lifeguards, citing their “excellent” swimming abilities.
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Before Memorial Day, Adams (D-N.Y.) made the statement in response to a question concerning lifeguard manning at the city’s beaches and pools, which have seen an increase in problems and shortages in recent years.
The question was posed at a City Hall briefing.
Adams, deviating from the topic at hand, suggested that the lack of lifeguards could be resolved with ease if migrant work permits were granted more rapidly for positions that need filling.
“How do we have a large body of people that are in our city, our country, that are excellent swimmers,…