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Eric Adams: “We were getting Venezuelan gang leaders that were coming to…”

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Interview with Mayor Eric Adams on Indictment and Immigration Challenges in New York City

Published January 21, 2025 | Video Starts at 13:13

We started to see the decrease in crime, we started to see the city turn it around. And in the midst of this, this gets dropped into our laps. And then part of the problem was We were getting Venezuelan gang leaders that were coming to the city, creating crimes in the city. My hands were tied. I could not allow to stop the buses from coming in. I couldn't give people authorization to work. (13:13–13:20)

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“We have to house them. We have to feed, clothes, house, educate 40,000 children, hold them into a shelter system.”
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“We were getting almost 8,000 migrants and asylum seekers a week, 16,000 every two weeks.”
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“We have over a billion riders, 4.5 million a day. We have an average of six felonies a day.”
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“We've closed down over 1300 of these illegal shops, almost $67 million in illegal cannabis.”
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“51% of our inmates at Rikers have mental health issues. 20% have severe mental health issues.”
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“I asked the fdny, can you look into the inspection to get the inspection done.”
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“I clearly stated to manage the expectation if it couldn't be done.”
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“I believe [Bill de Blasio is] teaching at one of our Ivy League schools.”
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“I spoke with the president first. Then the president came here to New York City. The governor and I sat down with the president.”
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“We still have about 52,000 that are in our care.”
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“We took $6.5 billion out of paying for chronically absent students.”
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“They wanted to give us $138 million to a 6 billion price tag.”
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“I was required to give them housing, even allow them to volunteer and give them a stipend for picking up garbage and removing graffiti.”
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“They wouldn't allow the President to communicate with me.”
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“There was little or no communication.”
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“This is a country of immigrants.”
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“How do you properly allow people in the country with a secure border and know what their destiny is when they get here? That is what we…”
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“Sanctuary city says that as long as you're here, you have a right to get the services your tax dollars are paying for.”
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“Those who violate their rights to come here by committing crimes, they need to leave our country after they serve their time.”
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“We're not welcome. Everyone. Everyone. No, everyone sin. When we say when they're here and they're following the rules and they're paying…”
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“I think you address it by controlling our borders.”
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“We in dire need of workers in this country.”
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“Here in New York, we've cut unemployment in those communities that you're talking about by over 20%.”
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“I believe that there's a solution and answer that starts with securing our borders, real immigration reform, removing those who are, who are…”
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“We did everything to get encampments off our streets.”
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“When we first came into office and we stated that we were not going to allow people to sleep on our streets, we did just that.”
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“People are not sleeping on our streets.”
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“We were able to move our city from encampments on the sidewalks, on the highways, in our train station.”
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“You have to go back to 2009. When you take out the two Covid years to see our subway system safer.”
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“8,000 people with mental health illness we were able to remove off our subway system and put them into what we call safe haven.”
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“People who are arrested three times in a year for the same crimes. The numbers are unbelievable. For robberies, for assault, for burglaries…”
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“We need to really carefully decide where you can smoke cannabis.”
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“I'm going to sell to New Yorkers what we did with this city and the reversal of where we were, where we were headed and where we're going…”
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“We took 8,000 off the system, to give them the care that they deserve.”
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“We close in the jail, open four new jails just to create four more smaller Reichs.”
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“Let's turn one of them into a state of the art mental health facility for outpatient inpatient treatment.”
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“I see an increase after Covid or during COVID I don't have any empirical data that could state that.”
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“Those conversations are still being played out in court to determine what should happen with them.”
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“I'm running for reelection and I'm looking forward to winning.”
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