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BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday addressed New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams’ response to the migrant disaster whereas talking at a city corridor with supporters in Brooklyn. 

Kennedy’s suggestion that the majority border crossers should not have asylum claims, together with a number of the 100,000 migrants who’ve arrived in New York Metropolis up to now, got here the evening earlier than Adams hosted one other rally Thursday demanding the Biden administration expedite work authorization for migrants. 

After fielding a query from a crowd of about 800 attendees in a Brooklyn warehouse, Kennedy was requested about his plan on dealing with the migrants already in america if elected president. Kennedy started by recalling his personal journey to the southern border in Arizona earlier this summer season. 

“This can be a large, heartbreaking humanitarian disaster. And since I watched them come over the border. I watched in a two-hour interval, 300 individuals come over the border,” Kennedy mentioned. “Solely two of the households I watched that evening between two to 4 within the morning had been from Latin America.” 

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“I talked to each household and none of them — solely two households had asylum claims. The remainder of them mentioned, we’re right here as a result of we need to work,” Kennedy mentioned. “That they had been stripped of their wealth by the cartels and so they have been exploited, extorted. A few of them had been raped. That they had been robbed, overwhelmed. A Peruvian household had their total life financial savings robbed. The cartels are promoting on TikTok and YouTube everywhere in the world, telling folks that they will get them in for $10,000.” 

As Democratic mayors, together with Adams, have ridiculed Republicans Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, transporting migrants from the border to self-declared sanctuary locations, similar to New York Metropolis, Kennedy appeared to reference the Biden administration’s personal federal efforts to relocate migrants all through america. 

“The Border Patrol who’re completely disheartened and depressed, 9 of them have dedicated suicide over the past 12 months, in response to what they informed us. Convey them to the airport, put them on an airplane and get them a ticket to any vacation spot in our nation,” Kennedy mentioned. 

Kennedy then turned to addressing the roughly 100,000 migrants who arrived in New York Metropolis. 

“100,000 have come right here to New York Metropolis. These are individuals who don’t have any authorized standing,” Kennedy mentioned. “They’re being exploited by unscrupulous employers. They’re being paid 5 or 6 {dollars} an hour, which isn’t sufficient to reside. And so they’re dwelling on our sidewalks. And as most of you understand, Eric Adams, the mayor, out of desperation is placing these now on Randall’s Island.” 

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Adams has obtained pushback from his personal Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul over how he’s dealt with housing migrants, as protests have sprung up within the outer boroughs appreciated Staten Island and Queens complaining of tents and different websites erected for so-called asylum seekers. 

A number of counties have sued over the busing of migrants upstate, and a member of Adams’ personal administration petitioned in opposition to seizing youth sports activities fields on Randall’s for one migrant website. 

“We’ve children on this metropolis who’re disadvantaged of their capability to play sports activities for 3 years. A few of them can be on sports activities scholarships. So they’d the super benefits taken away from them. And now they cannot play on the sporting fields as a result of they’re being operated by – occupied by migrants,” Kennedy mentioned Wednesday, including, “We can’t clear up that downside till we seal the border as a result of we can’t return on the American individuals.” 

“What we want on this nation is a safe border and wide-open gates to permit individuals to come back in legally and have a quick path to citizenship,” Kennedy mentioned. “We’d like their assist. We’d like their contribution to our society, however we will not try this till we guarantee the American folks that the border is safe and that we’re controlling it and never the Mexican drug cartel.” 

Internet hosting a rally in Foley Sq. Thursday, Adams mentioned it’s “frequent sense” to expedite migrant work visas. 

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“We’d like the nationwide authorities to face up,” the mayor mentioned. “This isn’t a New York Metropolis difficulty. This can be a nationwide difficulty. And it have to be resolved by the nationwide difficulty. So do not critique what we have finished. Do not inform us how we might have finished it higher. Do not sit within the bleachers and be a indifferent spectator on this full contact sport. Name asylum seekers, get on the sphere and combat this battle with us.” 

In the meantime, Hochul met with senior Biden administration officers Wednesday, together with White Home Chief of Employees Jeff Zients and Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and mentioned she was assured DHS staffers would surge to Manhattan within the coming weeks to start processing 1000’s of individuals “to allow them to apply to asylum legally.” Hochul mentioned migrants with the U.S. Customs and Border of Protections app will obtain notifications about their work standing beginning Thursday. 

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“The Biden-Harris administration and Congress should provide you with an actual resolution,” Adams mentioned Thursday. “America Division of Homeland Safety have to be a part of the answer. We should guarantee our latest Individuals can work lawfully and construct secure lives.”