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Eric Adams: “We were allowing everyone to come into the country with…”

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New York City Podcast with Mayor Eric Adams on Migrant Crisis, Public Safety, and Political Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 31:07

So we started getting in busloads and by design. Right, right. Political claim it was coming from Texas, but it was. It was the failure that we didn't secure our borders. We were allowing everyone to come into the country with unsecured borders. Many gang members, very dangerous. When I went down to Ecuador, Colombia and Mexico to look at the flow, there was a place called the Darien Gap. (31:07–31:12)

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