Mayor Adams: Migrants Are ‘Excellent Swimmers’ and Should Be Lifeguards

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said that the city should hire undocumented immigrants to be lifeguards because they’re “excellent swimmers.”

Adams, who previously claimed the massive influx of asylum seekers would “destroy New York City,” made the off-color comment during a press conference on Tuesday about lifeguard staffing at NYC public pools and beaches.

“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?” he said.

Read more at The Daily Beast.