Eric Adams reverses course after heckling over housing migrants in luxury apartments with marble bathrooms



New York City Mayor Eric Adams had city officials change course on housing for illegal immigrants after multiple confrontational meetings with residents in Harlem, New York, who were upset that migrants were receiving luxury accommodations.

During a community forum at a church, dozens attended to express their discontent about an unused luxury apartment on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. in Harlem. The development has reportedly sat empty for nearly a decade, until nearby residents noticed boxes of bunk beds were being unloaded into the building.

The building reportedly has a swimming pool and features marble bathrooms in its units, yet it was set to become a makeshift shelter for illegal immigrants and asylum-seekers.

The discussion at the church reportedly became very passionate. At least two people allegedly were escorted out of the building, one of whom heckled the mayor over a disagreement, Spectrum News reported.

"We already have a homeless shelter," said Harlem resident Tyrone Ball. "You go outside this building, there is a huge shelter and another shelter up the block beyond that. We don’t need another one."

Other residents were pleased with what they heard from Mayor Adams.

In the following days, another town hall meeting was held to further discuss the issue. The meeting featured signage on the wall reading, "Millions on migrants what about youth programs" and "Housing equity for returning citizens first."

Local residents continued to criticize the city's planned use for the nearby building.

"I don't agree if it's turned into a sanctuary for asylum-seekers. No, we have people right here that need the space," said Tiffany Fulton, executive director of Silent Voices United Inc.

Mayor Adams soon arrived to take questions from the concerned citizens, who began voicing their issues.

"You are the mayor; we do not want to hear excuses," one resident was seen saying in report from CBS 2 New York.

After hearing from a series of speakers, Adams later announced that the city was reversing course on the building.

"I told the team to find out what's going on here. We're not moving folks into a brand-new building when you have long-term needs into a community. That's not going to happen."

"You will not have migrants and asylum-seekers in that property," the mayor added.

The building will reportedly instead be used for long-term New York City families seeking shelter.

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New York City Democrats recently announced their intent to eliminate length-of-stay limits for all of the city's shelters, as some 66,000 alleged asylum-seekers and migrants are under the city's watch.

Over 177,000 migrants have reportedly been processed in New York City since 2022, with city shelters currently holding over 88,000 people. The numbers have steadily remained over 75,000 since mid-2023.

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Glenn LOSES IT after NYC mayor blames TEXAS for illegal immigrant crisis



According to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a “madman down in Texas,” otherwise known as Texas Governor Greg Abbott, is destroying New York City by sending buses full of illegal immigrants to the city.

Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere think Adams is being more than a little hypocritical and ridiculous.

“Why is he a madman?” Stu asks. “He had the same observation you have. He had the same exact point you have, Eric. He’s seeing not ten thousand, but millions of people cross this border while he’s been governor.”

Stu and Glenn see what Abbott’s done as sheer desperation, for fear that Texas won’t survive with millions of illegal immigrants crossing over its border.

“They’re on the same exact team here, right, in theory. Except that Governor Abbott doesn’t have a policy that promises free housing for everyone who shows up and calls himself a sanctuary city,” Stu adds.

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden and the Department of Homeland Security have launched a nationwide workforce initiative that will funnel millions of border crossers and illegal aliens in the United States directly to jobs.

However, Mayor Eric Adams can’t seem to figure out who is actually to blame.

“I don’t see an ending to this. This issue will destroy New York City,” Adams told an audience. “We’re getting 10,000 migrants a month.”

“We’re getting people from all over the globe, have made their minds up that they’re going to come through the southern part of the border and come into New York City,” he added.

“Imagine how Dallas and Houston are impacted. Imagine how San Antonio and Austin have been impacted. Imagine those towns of 5,000 people by the border, how they’ve been impacted,” Glenn responds.

“Every sanctuary city should have busload after busload after busload. You’re a sanctuary city, you wanted them,” he adds.


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UPDATE on the border buoy battle — Texas Gov. Abbott fights DOJ in court



The border crisis seems to be the least of Joe Biden’s worries, but it’s been a big worry for Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who decided to take matters into his own hands.

Abbott deployed buoys fitted with spikes on the Rio Grande to stop illegal border crossings, and now a legal showdown looms.

A federal judge in Austin, Texas, is set to rule on the border buoy barrier dispute between Abbott and Biden’s DOJ, which calls the buoy barricade a violation of the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act.

Sara Gonzales isn’t surprised.

“No department in the Biden regime is actually for Americans. They are about as un-American as you can get, including not wanting to protect our sovereignty and our border,” Gonzales says.

“You want to open the door and welcome them right in as soon as they get across the border? Fine. But we’re going to at least try to put something in the way of that happening because it turns out, that’s not actually a good strategy. That’s not actually a good policy, and we’d like to change that. But the DOJ says no, we’re just going to sue you,” Gonzales adds.

However, Jaco Booyens isn’t so sure Abbott is in the right either.

“In my opinion, this whole thing is a sham. It’s a sham on the administration’s side, it’s a sham on Greg Abbott’s side because you saw the buoys there. It extends 100 yards or something. There are thousands of crossing points up and down the Rio Grande river,” Booyens tells Gonzales.

Booyens believes it’s a “stunt by Abbott,” adding that instead, the governor could be “deploying the Texas guard, shutting this thing down, and actually giving power to people.”

“If you really know what’s going on down there, how we’ve completely, absolutely neutered our law enforcement on the border, how we’re not frisking and searching for fentanyl, there’s no DNA swabs going on, fentanyl's coming over in the backpacks of kids, kids are being raped and plundered, recycled into Mexico. The whole thing is an absolute mess,” Booyens adds.


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The fallacy of a tribute: Mayor Adams and the allegedly fake picture



On September 22, 1987, Officer Robert Venable took his last breath.

Venable was shot and killed in the line of duty as he and five other officers attempted to arrest two heavily armed men at an abandoned building in Brooklyn.

Now, Venable is being used as a prop by New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

“I still think about Robert,” Adams told the cameras, “I keep a picture of Robert in my wallet.”

Adams has even pulled out the vintage looking photo for cameras, saying Robert was one of his closest friends.

However, according to sources within the mayor’s office — the photo has not actually been kept for decades in Eric Adams' wallet as he tried to suggest.

Aides have told the New York Times that the photo was actually printed off of Google last year and was stained with coffee in order to make it appear old.

“Why not just say this is a picture of him? You don’t have to stain it brown to make it seem like this was a picture from the 1980s that you’ve just carried around this whole time,” Sara Gonzales comments.

The New York City Hall released a statement in response to the New York Times article, writing, “It is disgusting that The New York Times has chosen to have Robert Venable’s friends and family relive the tragic murder of a loved one for nothing more than feeding its obsession with dissecting every single moment of Mayor Adams’ life as the paper continues its unsuccessful campaign to paint the mayor as a liar.”

Gonzales reads the statement and scoffs, “but he did lie.”

“You gotta be a certain type of individual to lie about something like that,” Eric July says, adding, “I don’t understand it. I’m not sure what the angle is there.”

“It speaks of some sort of a character flaw, for sure,” Jaco Booyens comments. “How insecure are you, truly,” he continues, “you think that buys you favor? A coffee stain? Oh — the age of the picture buys you validity?”


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The Fallacy of a Tribute: Mayor Adams and the Alleged Fake Picture

The Fallacy of a Tribute: Mayor Adams and the Alleged Fake Picture

A 67-year-old woman was hit on the head and pushed down the stairs of a New York subway station by a man stealing her purse



On Saturday, a purse snatcher punched a 67-year-old woman in the head before he knocked her down the stairs of a subway station in Manhattan.

The New York Post reported that the man attacked the woman just before 7:00 a.m. this past Tuesday. The attack took place at the 42nd Street-Port Authority Bus Terminal station, according to the New York Police Department.

The NYPD said that she “sustained minor injuries from the fall.”

The violent thief absconded with the woman’s personal cellphone, roughly $150 in cash, and credit cards that were being held in the woman’s purse, police said.

The NYPD released surveillance footage of a suspect who appears to have something stuffed under his hooded sweatshirt as he walks down the street and out of the surveillance camera’s view.

This past February, New York City’s new Mayor, Eric Adams, committed to cracking down on violent crime in the subways by removing the city’s homeless residents who ride “the same lines all night” in the city’s sprawling metro system.

The mayor previously referred to the city’s homeless population as a “cancerous sore” and said that the city would begin to deploy more police and mental health workers throughout its transit network to prevent violent crimes from being carried out in the subway and subway stations as well as to remove transient homeless populations.

Adams said, “No more just doing whatever you want. Those days are over. Swipe your MetroCard, ride the system, get off at your destination. That’s what this administration is saying.”

He continued, “People tell me about their fear of using the system, and we’re going to ensure that fear is not New York’s reality.”

In mid-February, Kevin Douglas, a 40-year-old man, was arrested and charged with second-degree robbery, third-degree robbery, and second-degree assault after viciously attacking a Thai woman in a subway station before proceeding to sexually assault her.

On 11/22 at the Herald Square station, in this shocking video, suspect attacks 23YO Bew Jirajariyawetch on the platform. The suspect places her in a headlock, throws her to the ground then sexually assaults her before fleeing w/ her with her purse. (Video provided by attorney)pic.twitter.com/3xUge6AzOl
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However, violent crime remains a very real threat in many places in New York City besides the subway system.

This past winter, a 4-year-old boy was assaulted by a grown man in Times Square at 3:20 p.m. in the afternoon. And in mid-March, the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown Manhattan was evacuated after a man stabbed two employees.

According to a report from WNBC-TV, a regional NBC affilate providing coverage to Manhattan, violent crime is on the rise in New York City. Rape was reported to be up 27 percent, felony assault by 12 percent, robbery up by 33 percent, and burglary up by six percent.