Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Monday disclosed what excites him most regarding working with President-elect Donald Trump’s upcoming administration.
Adams, who is notably facing a federal indictment, recently met with Trump’s incoming border czar Tom Homan, and said they agreed on targeting illegal immigrants who have committed crimes in New York City, according to The New York Times. When asked by FOX 5 New York political reporter Morgan McKay what he is “most looking forward to” about collaborating with the incoming Trump administration, Adams highlighted restoring national “pride,” combating youth “radicalization” and improving the economy.
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“Regaining the pride in our country, going after the large number of young people who no longer love this country and believe the country does not have a future for them. I’m looking forward to stopping the radicalization of our young people, from going into schools, shooting up campuses, to Ivy League students taking a gun with a silencer and killing an insurance executive,” Adams said. “You know, to believing that they should call themselves terrorists — Hamas and Hezbollah. I’m looking to regain our economy and affordability and partnering and making government efficient.”
“I’m really looking forward to what Elon Musk is doing. I’ve stated this when I ran for office back in 2020 that our city has been inefficient, and our country — we’re producing a terrible product, and we’re spending a great deal of taxpayers’ dollars to do so,” he continued. “We could do better. We’ve betrayed New Yorkers; we’ve betrayed Americans and we need to have a pathway into the middle class. And I’m looking forward to partnering with this administration and not fighting with this administration to accomplish that task.”
New York City has experienced a surge of illegal migration that has contributed to increasing concerns over safety risks and crime. More than 58,000 illegal migrants who have been convicted of felonies or are confronting pending criminal charges are presently located in New York City, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data first reported by the New York Post in November.
Adams warned in September 2023 that the migrant crisis “will destroy New York City” and criticized President Joe Biden’s administration for allegedly providing “no support.” Trump recently said at a Mar-a-Lago press conference that he was open to pardoning Adams and that the mayor has been “treated pretty unfairly.”
The Southern District of New York indicted Adams in September on five federal charges, alleging he “sought and accepted improper valuable benefits, such as luxury international travel, including from wealthy foreign businesspeople and at least one Turkish government official seeking to gain influence over him” for nearly a decade. The mayor told Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Wednesday that he had not requested a pardon from Trump.
Adams has professed his innocence since the indictment and has accused Biden’s administration of retaliating against him for criticizing their “broken immigration policies.”
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