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2024-05-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

NYC Mayor: Migrants should be lifeguards - ‘they're excellent swimmers'

[NYP] Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday suggested migrants should be hired to fill the city’s lifeguard shortage — because "they’re excellent swimmers."

Hizzoner dropped the comment after being asked during a City Hall briefing about lifeguard staffing at the city’s beaches and pools, which have increasingly had issues in recent years, ahead of Memorial Day.

"How do we have a large body of people that are in our city, our country, that are excellent swimmers and at the same time we need lifeguards — and the only obstacle is that we won’t give them the right to work to become a lifeguard," the mayor said.

"That just doesn’t make sense."

Posted by Bobby 2024-05-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11181 views ] Top

#1 BEE worthy.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-15 00:51|| 2024-05-15 00:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Hizzoner is presuming these 'migrants' want to work.

Posted by Raj 2024-05-15 01:25|| 2024-05-15 01:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Excellent swimmers because they waded across the Rio Grande? In Texas, the stereotype is that Hispanics are poor swimmers. At least Hizzoner didn't say "wetbacks".

I don't see how the Bee can keep up with this.

Posted by SteveS 2024-05-15 08:12|| 2024-05-15 08:12|| Front Page Top

#4 No sympathy; those NY voters choose him; deal with the results

Posted by USN Ret. 2024-05-15 08:31|| 2024-05-15 08:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Why does Mexico have no Olympics team?

Because every Mexican who can run, jump or swim is in America...

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-15 08:32|| 2024-05-15 08:32|| Front Page Top

#6 New Yorkers voted for this. Our nation voted for Biden. Sure, they cheated to get him across the finish line, but its a fact that tens of millions of college-educated legal-to-vote adults actually voted for Biden. It doesn't get much more cringe than that.

Posted by Crusader 2024-05-15 09:44|| 2024-05-15 09:44|| Front Page Top

#7 I told ya, it’s in the breeding

Posted by Jimmy the Greek 2024-05-15 09:53|| 2024-05-15 09:53|| Front Page Top

Perhaps Hollywood actually got it right ?

Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-15 10:01|| 2024-05-15 10:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Just when you think their racism can't come out in an even more clownish way, they exceed expectations.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-05-15 10:08|| 2024-05-15 10:08|| Front Page Top

#10 I wonder if he thinks that they know what a computer is?

Posted by EMS Artifact 2024-05-15 10:35|| 2024-05-15 10:35|| Front Page Top

#11 I was a lifeguard/water safety instructor for many years. The experienced guards knew not to take the gigs along the Russian River or the lakes. Migrant kids are routinely fished from the waters. Hell, one drowned at a local waterpark which forced its closure back in the day.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2024-05-15 12:48|| 2024-05-15 12:48|| Front Page Top

#12 Wooooow.

Watch out Herchul, Adams bringing the classic racisms. Somebody might as well go there and ask him why he didn't appeal to the Black Community.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-05-15 13:46|| 2024-05-15 13:46|| Front Page Top

#13 He was reading from a prepared remarks. He prepared to be stupid ahead of time.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-05-15 16:34|| 2024-05-15 16:34|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ If a Republican had said it the media would be having a collective grand mal seizure.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-15 16:42|| 2024-05-15 16:42|| Front Page Top

#15 To be a lifeguard one needs to know and enforce rules, so they don’t qualify.

Posted by Jack Salami 2024-05-15 22:51|| 2024-05-15 22:51|| Front Page Top

00:17 Skidmark