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Eric Adams: “It cost us $7 billion. 7.7 billion, to be exact.”

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Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show

Published July 23, 2025 | Video Starts at 04:45

I got charged when I Talked about the 237,000 migrants and asylum seekers that came to the city without any financial support. And it cost us Ebro. It cost us $7 billion. 7.7 billion, to be exact. And after 10 trips to Washington, after two meetings with the president, it was clear that they were ignoring what was happening to the city. (04:45–04:50)

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Asserts that the cost of handling migrants and asylum seekers was $7.7 billion.

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“Drop the cost of child care from $220 a month to less than $20 a month.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 14:06-14:14
“237,000 migrants and asylum seekers came to the city without any financial support.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 15:43-15:52
“Crime, homicides and shootings are at the lowest in this last six months in recorded history of the city.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 27:55-28:02
“I had a good relationship with Biden prior to the [migrant and asylum seeker issue].”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 04:58-05:03
“I was charged with calling the fire department and asking them to do a building inspection.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 05:10-05:19
“They was charging me with bribery and facing 33 years in prison over it.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 05:33-05:39
“I had over 6,700 volunteers.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 05:55-05:59
“It appears that one of those volunteers did something inappropriate.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 05:58-06:03
“There's not one shred of evidence that said I told someone to do something inappropriate.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 06:13-06:20
“The judge dismissed the case [against Brian Benjamin].”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 07:24-07:27
“The charges are dismissed and it can't come back.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 09:15-09:19
“I took the White House to court for migrant and other related issues more than any mayor in the country.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 09:19-09:29
“They lifted that stop work order and I got those 1500 union jobs.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 09:51-09:56
“We turned the city around.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 10:07-10:09
“I'm the second black mayor in the history of this city.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 12:55-12:59
“What we've done on mwbe, I bought a black and brown leadership into city hall.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 13:02-13:08
“No one in the country has reached those numbers of women and minority owned businesses.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 13:40-13:45
“We broke records in affordable housing.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 13:54-13:57
“We paying off college tuition for foster care children.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 13:57-14:00
“237 Migrants and asylum seekers came here to join even more undocumented people who were here in the first place.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 15:43-15:52
“112,000 we put through the process with our free legal services to allow them to get to the step to go to court.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 16:14-16:22
“We do not coordinate with ICE in civil enforcement. That is against the law.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 16:42-16:49
“We coordinate when it goes after dangerous gangs like the ones we took down. 27 gang members forcing migrant women into prostitution.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 16:50-17:00
“If the police or any city employee interferes with ICE, taking an action physically, they are now charged with obstruction.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 17:47-18:00
“They're facing a five year federal prison sentence if they are found guilty of obstruction.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 18:16-18:24
“You pay taxes. When you go in and buy that loaf of bread, you pay taxes.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 19:34-19:39
“Eight national immigration leaders came to New York and spent the day here, saw what we were doing for free legal services, educating 50,000…”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 20:53-21:09
“No one in the country is doing what you're doing.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 21:18-21:22
“Not one child or family slept on the streets of the city of New York because of what we've done.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 21:52-22:02
“We were getting 4,000 migrants and asylum seekers a week, 8,000 every two weeks.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 22:40-22:46
“We had a real intake system where we made sure children were educated in school.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 23:06-23:11
“We broke housing records of what we're doing for children with dyslexia, of screening them early so they don't end up in jail.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 28:01-28:09
“First black, first deputy mayor in the history of the city. First Trinidadian, Trinidadian deputy mayor, first Filipino deputy mayor, first…”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 28:32-28:54
“Cycling out of COVID cycling out of the asylum seeker crisis, cycling out of, you know, criminal justice, getting people back on the subway…”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 30:33-30:42
“Have they reported any of the good stuff that the mayor has done? No, no, I bump into people all the time.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 31:20-31:28
“We have placed more children in pre K3K than any other man. 150,000 we placed in.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 36:23-36:30
“We just did Universal. Universal after after school program where children are going to learn robotics, tennis lessons, languages, et…”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 36:30-36:42
“We dropped the course of child care from $220 a month to less than $20 a month.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 36:44-36:53
“We baseline the dollars in our cultural institutions and others. And baseline means it can never go away.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 36:57-37:05
“We did something called held harmless, meaning although their student population dropped, we still gave them the same dollar amount.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 37:24-37:34
“There was not the cuts that they talked about in the first inning. They didn't tell you what happened at the end of the game, that everyone…”
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“We put $30 billion back in the pockets of New Yorkers.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 39:59-40:02
“Paying off medical debt, reduced fare, Metro card, free high speed broadband for NY residents.”
Eric Adams Discusses Mayoral Campaign, Immigration, and Public Safety on Ebro's Show | Uploaded July 23, 2025 | 40:01-40:08
“I revitalized our 30 billion dollar nightlife industry.”
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