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New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) on Thursday appeared in court to demand that the city scrap his rodent infestation fine. Adams spent 30 minutes in an online proceeding, disputing the accusation that he did not take care of the rat problem at his Brooklyn property. “We all don’t like rats, and we’re all cooperating together,” Adams said, countering the idea that he had willfully allowed rats to infest his property. Adams contested the findings of an inspector who found rat droppings in front of the mayor’s garbage bins, and rat burrows along his fence. He appeared confused by the accusation ...
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A woman seeking asylum committed suicide in a shelter in New York, according to a statement released by Mayor Eric Adams (D) on Monday. “Yesterday (Sunday), an asylum seeker in one of our facilities took her own life. Our hearts break for this young woman and any loved ones she may have, and we, as a city mourn her,” the statement said. In a press briefing, Adams told reporters he was not allowed by law to provide more details about the woman but confirmed she was a mother. The death occurred as the city struggles to deal with what the mayor characterized as a “man-made humanitarian crisis” in...
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With a large number of undocumented migrants arriving in New York City and Washington D.C. from Texas, there are growing calls from the mayors of both cities for the help of the National Guard and Federal government. Though Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) initially denied being responsible for initiating the transfers, he recently admitted to authorizing “Operation Lone Star” and claimed he began to bus the bussing operation to alleviate the situation in his state. With nowhere to stay, the migrants are adding to the already-large local homeless population. Many immigration lawyers based in the cit...
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Tensions are mounting between the Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams (D) and the governors of Texas and Arizona. After over 3000 new asylum seekers entered New York City’s service shelters in the span of six weeks, Adams pointed to Gov. Greg Abbot’s (R-Texas) previous statements of bussing migrants to D.C. and other liberal cities. With the increase in the population of homeless shelters, Adams called on the federal government for assistance. More food, clothing and blankets will be needed in order to maintain the current capacity, he said. “In order to both meet the legal mandate as a right-...
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) slammed Black Lives Matter supporters after an especially violent night in the city last Wednesday. “Here is my question that I put out to the city: I thought Black lives mattered. Where are all those who stated Black lives matter?” the mayor said on NY1. “Then go do an analysis of who was killed or shot last night. I was up all night speaking to my commanders in the Bronx and Brooklyn. The victims were Black. Many of the shooters were Black.” “Why are 16, 17, 18-year-olds out on our streets armed with guns at 12:00 or 1:00 a.m.?” he added. Three people were ...
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New York Democrats scaled back bail reforms in light of a crime surge across the nation. A new agreement called Kendra’s Law will allow judges more control over bail. They will be able to consider the defendant’s gun records and prior violations of the law. “We have to realize there are areas where improvements can and need to be made,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said as she announced the deal on Thursday. “And so to the New Yorkers who are concerned about the rise in crime, we have put forth a comprehensive package that, again, achieves and continues the progress we’ve made in the past to...
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New York City MayorEric Adams (D) ordered the clear encampments of homeless people across New York City. Police have removed around 150 encampments over two weeks. “I’m not going to have an inhumane city that allows people to live in an inhumane dangerous environment,” Adams said. In Adams’s citywide plan, the NYPD will offer shelter to the homeless before giving them the warning to vacate. Although Adams acknowledges that the city doesn’t have the power to stop people from living on the street, he wants to limit the building on encampments. “We cannot tolerate these makeshift, unsafe houses o...
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) is adamant about banning chocolate milk in his public schools. Adams, a vegan and health junkie, wants to give students options in terms of the nutrition available to them at school, but this is raising concern among New York dairy farmers. New York is one of the largest dairy producers in the U.S., and New York City schools are one of the largest customers of chocolate milk. Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is sympathetic to the dairy farmers since she views school lunch programs as an agricultural issue. She even suggested that the lunch program in New York City be tr...
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Prior to being selected as a faith adviser by New York City Mayor Eric Adams, City Councilman Fernando Cabrera said repeatedly that gay marriage was “unacceptable.” He once praised a Ugandan law that made certain homosexual behavior punishable with life in prison. Cabrera is among several of Adams’s new hires with anti-gay views. Rev. Erick Salgado, named as assistant commissioner for immigrant affairs, has a history of anti-LGBT views as well. He referred to homosexuality as a mortal sin in his 2013 campaign as mayor. “My views have evolved as society has evolved,” Salgado said recently. Adam...
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced plans to make the city’s subway system safer, by using law enforcement to ensure that people are leaving the train and station at the end of their ride. The decreasing safety of the subway system has become a concern as two people were recently pushed off the platform onto the train tracks in separate incidents and six people were stabbed in a span of just three days. “We are not going to wait until someone shoves a person onto the tracks,” Adams announced at a joint news conference with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. “We are going to engage New Yorkers wh...
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