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Eric Adams: “It was Wrong for cities to pick up the weight of a national…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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New York City Mayor's Press Conference on Crime Reduction, Migrant Crisis, and Economic Initiatives

Published | Video Starts at 34:28

And even the federal government was sending people here. The administration was sending people here. And so we need to be clear. It was Wrong for cities to pick up the weight of a national problem. That was wrong. Follow up to another international concern. Governor Newsom, who has an economy that's like the fifth largest in the world with these tariffs, is now asking his advisors to open up conversations with international trading partners. (34:28–34:33)

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Asserts that it was wrong for cities to bear the burden of national immigration issues.

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