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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 02:11

… live in New York, so I have to deal with the consequences because it is such a liberal city, but mostly because it's a sanctuary city. Right. Which basically committed New York...committed an act of insurrection against the federal government by ignoring federal law. Kind of what the Confederates did at Fort Sumter, except even more outrageous. And so isn't there a sense in which New York kind of deserves this? It was a sanctuary city. (02:11–19:29)

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Asserts that New York City ignored federal law, equating it to an act of insurrection.

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“Among native born African Americans, young men, the number's like over 50% [unemployment].”
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“The more immigration you have, the smaller the percentage of Americans who work.”
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“You were indicted for accepting upgraded flights and for allowing the Turkish president to occupy his own building in Manhattan.”
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“There's no evidence that the building was a fire trap or out of compliance with any fire regulation.”
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“You're under indictment for allowing foreign governments, Turkey, not North Korea, by the way, or Iran, but like a member of NATO, allowing…”
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“You were indicted by Joe Biden's Justice Department.”
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“Because you complained about allowing tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of illegals from, you know, foreign nationals who have no…”
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“Someone comes into our country illegally, from another nation, not invited here, in violation of our laws, and it's your responsibility to…”
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“If New York harbors [a criminal], it's harboring a criminal. It's violating federal law, and that is a form of insurrection.”
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“There is a labor crisis in the country. Obviously every employer says it and it's real.”
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“The native population stops working when you flood the country with foreigners.”
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“A lot of them [people hesitant to take the vax] lost their jobs. At the very least, they were yelled at and scolded by the Biden…”
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“Daniel Penny tried to save a man's life. He gets indicted for doing the right.”
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“Some guy gets picked up, he's been arrested 47 times for violent crimes. Not prosecuted.”
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“You've got some of the worst prosecutors in the country. George Soros paid for them.”
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“I'm kind of against all immigration right now. We have too much of it.”
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