Mayor Adams says NYC must 'modify sanctuary city law' to facilitate deportation of law-breaking migrants



During a Monday evening town hall meeting, Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams called for changes to the city's "sanctuary" policy that would allow local law enforcement to turn over some law-breaking migrants to federal agents, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported.

Adams has previously expressed support for the city's sanctuary status. However, New York City's overwhelmed shelter system and increase in crime may be pushing the mayor to reconsider the policy.

A video of the town hall meeting posted on social media by independent photographer Leeroy Johnson captured Adams' remarks, where he appeared to walk back his stance on the city's sanctuary status policies.

"The overwhelming number of migrants and asylum-seekers that are here, they want to work. I still don't understand why the federal government is not allowing them to work. They need to have the right to work, like all of us that have come to this country have had the ability to do so," Adams stated.

"But those small numbers that have committed crimes, we need to modify the sanctuary city law that if you commit a felony or violent act, we should be able to turn you over to [United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and have you deported," Adams added.

The room erupted in applause in response to the mayor's comments.

In a separate video, Adams explained that the current laws are preventing him from curbing the illegal migrant crisis within the city.

"People tell me all the time, they see me on the street and they say, 'Well, Eric, why don't you stop the buses from coming in?' It's against the law, I can't. 'Why don't you allow those who want to work — allow them to work?' It's against the law — the federal law — I can't. 'Why do you say you have to house everyone that [comes] in?' Because that's the law. 'Why don't you deport those who commit crimes and harm people that are not doing the right thing?' It's against the law, I can't," Adams said.

Despite "inheriting a national crisis," Adams argued that New York City has handled the influx of migrants better than other cities across the country.

"You don't see tent cities in New York. You don't see children and families sleeping on the street in New York. This team here has managed the crisis each time they come," he added.

During the town hall meeting, New York Police Department Chief of Patrol John Chell noted that the city's law enforcement officials have seized 50,000 illegal scooters, bikes, and cars off of the streets. According to Chell, residents have repeatedly raised concerns about the stolen and illegal vehicles being used by migrants to commit crimes.

Canarsie Brooklyn NY \nDuring a Town Hall meeting, a resident raised his concerns over illegal scooters, @NYPDChiefPatrol John Chell states he heard those concerns by other residents and have been taking action and so far seized over 50k illegal scooters and cars off the streets,\u2026
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Earlier this month, minority Republicans in the New York state legislature proposed legislation that would effectively reverse the city's sanctuary policies, Blaze News previously reported. The bill, if passed, would allow local law enforcement agencies to coordinate with ICE.

Kenneth Genalo, the director of ICE's New York field office, has blamed the city's sanctuary policies for hindering the agency's ability to remove illegal migrants.

"We want to help. The problem is, due to city policies and state law, cooperation is no longer afforded between NYPD and ICE," Genalo told the New York Post.

"Once they're back in the community, we have to then go look for them," he added. "Instead of being able to take custody of these individuals in the confines of a jail or in the confines of a precinct, we now have to go out into the community and the streets where unfortunately the criminals have the upper hand."

Canarsie Brooklyn NY\nDuring a town hall meeting, the @NYCMayor explains that by law, he has to house the migrants and due to federal law, he can't turn the busses or planes around. He also states him and his team did the job better than any state or city. \nFilmed by @LeeroyPress\u2026
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NYC mayor blames Republicans for struggles handling migrant influx in sanctuary city he helms



New York City Mayor Eric Adams blamed Republicans Sunday for issues the Big Apple is facing as the sanctuary city's officials struggle to house, feed, and care for thousands of migrants.

"If this is properly handled at the border level, this issue can be resolved while we finally get Congress, particularly the Republican Party, to deal with comprehensive immigration policy," Adams told CBS News's "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan.

Adams told Brennan the $30 million the White House has pledged to help NYC deal with the migrant crisis is insufficient. According to Adams, the city has spent close to $4.3 billion and counting.

"When you look at the price tag, $30 million comes nowhere near what the city is paying for a national problem," he said.

When Brennan challenged him on the "migrant magnet" powered by New York City's sanctuary city status, Adams deflected, again focusing on Republicans.

"The problem is that Republicans for far too many years have failed to deal with real immigration reform. This is a national issue."

He suggested allowing migrants and asylum seekers to have work status as a partial solution.

Some migrant moms who recently illegally migrated from Ecuador have taken to the unlicensed selling of fruit and drinks along dangerous highways and busy intersections, as the New York Post reported Sunday.

The mothers, with babies strapped to their backs, sell the locally purchased food to motorists who have stopped for red lights. Councilman Robert Holden, a Democrat, called the scary situation potentially "catastrophic."

Holden was referring to the possibility the women or their children could be killed or maimed while weaving among vehicles selling their wares. Holden's appeal to the NYPD to address the situation with more vigor has met with little success.

Mayor Adams says a "decompression strategy" is required to take some of the pressure off the city, which still has 42,000 migrants "in our care." He characterized the bussing of migrants to cities like New York an "unfair" burden.

Part of that decompression strategy, bussing migrants to nearby counties, met with instant backlash and legal challenges.

Sunday morning, Suffolk County announced plans to draft a resolution to assure its residents do not bear the financial burden if NYC busses migrants there, News 12 Long Island reported.

New York City made a "conscious decision to be a sanctuary city, Suffolk County did not," Suffolk Legislature's Presiding Officer Kevin McCaffrey said in a press conference covered by News 12. McCaffrey added that the county's top priorities are "public safety and fiscal responsibility."

Orange County and Rockland County have already taken action to stem the tide of migrants being bussed in from New York City.

Watch a portion of NYC Mayor Eric Adams' interview with "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan below.

\u201c.@NYCMayor Eric Adams tells @MargBrennan the federal government should be directing migrant movement throughout the U.S. \u201cWe have 108,000 cities, villages, towns. If everyone takes a small portion, it\u2019s not a burden on one city.\u201d\u201d
— Face The Nation (@Face The Nation) 1684680955

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Migrants refuse relocation from $280/night NYC hotel; NYPD clears encampment near Hell's Kitchen



Police were dispatched to the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan Sunday night when a group of migrants housed in a hotel there refused relocation to a Brooklyn shelter.

"This weekend, we began the process of moving single adults[sic] males form the Watson Hotel to Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, as we transition the hotel to meet the large number of asylum seeking families with children," said New York City Mayor Eric Adams in a statement obtained by Fox 5 NY.

"The facilities at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal will provide the same services as every other humanitarian relief center in the city," the statement also said.

More than 50 migrants protested the move to the Brooklyn facility, setting up camp outside the hotel Sunday night, according to the National Review. Some of the migrants visited the new shelter, but returned to the hotel after finding conditions there unsatisfactory, the outlet also reported.

One of Sunday's protesters described the facility as an "icebox" with "hundreds of cots in warehouse-like rooms, few bathrooms, and little heat," according to a report published at W42St.com.

The NYPD cleared the migrants' tents from blocking the sidewalk along 57th Street on Monday around 11 a.m., ABC 7 NY reported.

A Twitter user documenting part of the scene last night, described it as a "mini-riot," and shared a brief video. The video shows a crowd gathered in front of the Watson Hotel along with a number of police officers, emergency vehicles, and a bus.

\u201cThere was a mini-riot outside the hotel next door to me where @NYCMayor has been housing migrants. The location is being changed from housing single men to housing migrant families, so the men are being moved elsewhere (hence the buses) and are not happy about it.\u201d
— Daniel de la F\u00e9 (@Daniel de la F\u00e9) 1675040140

"The former residents pounded on the [Watson Hotel's] door and pressed their faces against the glass, yelling 'Open!' as security guards and staff watched on from the inside," according to the Villager, which posted several photographs of the chaotic scene.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the opening of a fifth "Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center" at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal on January 21, 2023. In that announcement, he noted that the facility "will provide approximately 1,000 asylum seekers with a place to stay, access support, and get to their final destination."

"Since this humanitarian crisis began, the city has taken fast and urgent action. . .opening 77 hotels as emergency shelters and four other humanitarian relief centers already, standing up navigation centers to connect asylum seekers with critical resources, enrolling children in public schools through Project Open Arms, and more," the statement concluded.

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NYC Democrat Mayor Eric Adams: 'No more room' in his 'sanctuary city' for illegal aliens



New York City's Democrat mayor vowed to hinder federal efforts to deport criminal noncitizens when running for office and indicated he would maintain NYC's "sanctuary city status." He went so far as to support legislation that would allow foreign nationals to vote in local elections.

Mayor Eric Adams has since begun to reap the whirlwind.

Adams traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border over the weekend to beg for help in tackling the fallout of the border crisis, suggesting that NYC may no longer be the sanctuary it was cracked up to be.

What's the background?

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott previously invited Adams to visit the Lone Star State and to "see firsthand the dire situation that only grows more urgent with each passing day, and to meet with the local officials, who like yourselves, realize this matter deserves immediate federal action."

Adams had rejected the offer, and instead threatened the governor — who has been busing undocumented migrants who had stolen into Texas over to Democrat-run states and cities — with political interference and legal action.

In October, Adams declared a state of emergency in New York City over bused migrants from Texas, saying, "We are in a crisis situation. New York City now has more than 61,000 in our shelter system."

The mayor indicated that 17,000 illegal aliens hailed from border states, such as Texas, and that the city was poised to spend $1 billion by the end of the fiscal year in an effort to remedy the problem — a problem that border cities and states have suffered on a far greater scale over a much longer period of time.

Reuters reported that the illegal migrant crisis may now cost the city upwards of $2 billion amid a major budget shortfall.

In December, Adams noted that the influx of illegal aliens was adversely impacting "every service we provide."

"It's going to impact education. It's going to impact the dollars we use to clean our streets. It's going to impact our public safety," he said.

\u201c#BREAKING: NYC Mayor Eric Adams warns New Yorkers: "Every service we provide is going to be impacted by the influx of migrants in our city. It's going to impact education. It's going to impact the dollars we use to clean our streets. It's going to impact our public safety."\u201d
— Forbes (@Forbes) 1671466930

Adams recently expressed frustration that Colorado had joined Republican-run states in busing illegal aliens to his city, reported TheBlaze.

"One time we had to deal with Republican governors sending migrants to New York," he complained. "Now we’re dealing with Democratic governors sending migrants to New York."

Gov. Abbott has maintained that "what Adams is dealing with is a trifle of what small border towns grapple with daily."

New York City has enough illegal aliens, thanks

Mayor Adams traveled to Texas over the weekend to admit that "trifle" has proven too great for NYC.

During his Sunday visit to Democrat-run El Paso, Adams said that "there is no room in New York" for the busloads of illegal aliens being sent to his sanctuary city.

NYC "cannot take more," he emphasized.

"Once the asylum seekers from today's buses are provided shelter, we will surpass the highest number of people in recorded history in our city's shelter system," said Adams.

CBS News reported that Adams noted both how NYC's shelters were running out of space and how his city was also dealing with the 5,500 migrant children it had admitted into its crowded public schools.

"We have not asked for this," he added. "There was never any agreement to take on the job of supporting thousands of asylum seekers. This responsibility was simply handed to us without warning as buses began showing up."

In June 2021, Adams appeared to ask for this:

\u201cNew York City is, and has always been, a City of immigrants. We are a destination for diversity and a place where people from every nation seek refuge, raise families, and enrich our communities. Under my administration, our government will reflect that.\u201d
— Eric Adams (@Eric Adams) 1622755987

Renae Eze, a spokesman for Abbott, accused Adams of hypocrisy, saying, "The true emergency is on our nation's southern border where small Texas border towns are overrun and overwhelmed by hundreds of migrants every single day as the Biden administration dumps them in their communities."

The migrants bused to NYC represent a tiny fraction of the total number of illegal aliens who have entered the U.S. since President Joe Biden took office.

Roughly 500,000 illegal aliens had already been encountered at the border by November this fiscal year; 2.37 million criminal noncitizens poured over the southern border last year, and millions more stole over in 2021.

The Democrat mayor echoed a suggestion previously made by Republican governors, saying, "Now is the time for the national government to do its job" about the record number of illegal aliens stealing across the southern border.

"We expect more from our national leaders to address this issue in a real way," Adams added, suggesting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) should "step up."

Ahead of his trip to the border, Adams told Caribbean Power Jam Radio that the strain placed on NYC institutions by the border crisis "is just inhumane on the part of the national government. And I really believe it’s irresponsible, that we have not had a real national response to what’s happening at our border."

El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser (D), who has bused thousands of illegal aliens to NYC, gave Adams a tour of an area where illegal aliens steal into the U.S. and another area where the migrants camp out.

\u201c.@NYCMayor landed in El Paso, Texas tonight to survey the asylum seeker crisis at the southern border. \n\nEl Paso Mayor Leeser took us an impromptu visit to an area where asylum seekers have been known to cross the border, as well as an area where many asylum seekers are sleeping.\u201d
— Fabien Levy (@Fabien Levy) 1673763647

El Paso — a city of fewer than 700,000 people — saw 84,082 illegal aliens released into it between Aug. 22 and Dec. 11, reported the Washington Examiner.

The city's Migrant Situational Awareness Dashboard indicates that thousands more pour in every day.

Leeser declared a state of emergency in December, noting that "our asylum-seekers are not safe as we have hundreds and hundreds on the streets."

During Adams' day trip through Texans' nightmare, he was met by illegal aliens keen to return to NYC.

Elvis Mendoza was one of the migrants who gathered in El Paso to meet Adams.

Mendoza told the New York Post, "I would like to go to sanctuary."

Another migrant from Venezuela said, "I heard that they can help me in New York more than elsewhere. I heard the shelters are great there."

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Left-wing radical behind heavily criticized 1619 Project mocks Asian activist's concerns over NYC subway safety — and Pavlovian leftists pile right on



The left-wing radical behind the heavily criticized 1619 Project took to Twitter to mock an Asian activist who raised concerns about subway safety in New York City — and as you might guess, lapdog leftists who follow Nikole Hannah-Jones on the social media platform were only too eager to pile on after her.

What are the details?

It all started when Yiatin Chu posted the following tweet Thursday:

\u201cPaid $2.75 to be in a subway car with a loud and aggressive man threatening to hit his female partner. Switched cars at next stop to be in a public toilet / urine-odor, crowded car for the rest of my ride. This is @KathyHochul and @NYCMayor\u2019s NYC.\u201d
— Yiatin Chu (@Yiatin Chu) 1668718310

“Paid $2.75 to be in a subway car with a loud and aggressive man threatening to hit his female partner," she wrote. "Switched cars at next stop to be in a public toilet / urine-odor, crowded car for the rest of my ride.”

In a follow-up tweet Chu threw shade at just-elected New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams, both Democrats: “Hochul and Adams own it. They said so themselves.” The New York Post said Chu was referring to Hochul and Adams' recent promise to increase police presence in subways amid spiking crime there.

Well, Hannah-Jones wasn't having it — and mocked Chu's concerns: “Yes, yes,” she tweeted back. “This was absolutely unheard on subways until two years ago.”

Hannah-Jones also boasts nearly 675,000 Twitter followers, and some of them saw an opening to jump into the fray against Chu, who sports a far less commanding 6,345 followers as of Tuesday afternoon.

  • "Honey, I remember paying 20 cents for all that in 1970, but you know, prices go up over the years," one Hannah-Jones devotee told Chu. "It's always been like that. Welcome to New York. Now, if you don't like it, I suggest you leave."
  • Another fired a back a rather stunning comment to Chu, considering the left's love for folks illegally crossing our borders: "I see your profile indicates you are an immigrant. A very recent immigrant, I take it?"
  • "Child, this is NYC," another Chu opponent wrote. "NYC yesterday today and tomorrow. Get with it or get lost."

You get the idea.

Chu told the Post that Hannah-Jones' followers "were purposely being unkind" and that "she makes these snarky comments, and she’s inviting them all to pile on.”

The Post did note that others defended Chu, such as Manhattan parent activist Maud Maron, who in responding to Hannah-Jones tossed cold water on those who assume Chu just arrived in New York City.

"Nikole grew up in Iowa. Yiatin grew up in Queens. Yiatin went to public school in Queens as an English language learner and commuted to Bronx Science as a teenager in the 80s…some of us have decades of NYC living to draw on, not just the last two (admittedly garbage) years," Maron wrote.

Another shot back at Hannah-Jones with the following: "Why are you denying Yiatin's lived experience? She didn't say it was unheard of 2 years ago but anyone who rides the subway knows that these incidents have increased & no amount of gaslighting will erase them. Minimizing is petty. You're not helping anyone by doing it."

The Post said Chu isn't deterred by Hannah-Jones: “I just want a peaceful ride when I get on the train. I pay my fare, I just want to get home. Is that too much to ask? As New Yorkers, why should we accept what our subways have become?”

Anything else?

Hannah-Jones created the 1619 Project for the New York Times as it sought to frame the founding of America as not starting in 1776 but in 1619, the year the first African slaves were brought to North America. Interestingly, the Times in September 2020 stealth-edited its statement describing the 1619 Project by removing the controversial claim that 1619 was "our true founding."

'Kansas doesn't have a brand': People sound off after Democratic NYC Mayor Eric Adams says that 'New York has a brand,' but Kansas does not



New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, claimed on Tuesday that "New York has a brand," but that Kansas does not.

"We have a brand. New York has a brand," Adams said, claiming, "Kansas doesn't have a brand." He said that New York's "brand means diversity. That brand means we care. That brand means that we are compassionate."

Mayor Eric Adams Briefs Media on Trip to Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic youtu.be

The mayor's remarks were met with backlash by some on social media.

Kansas attorney general Derek Schmidt, a Republican who is currently running for governor, tweeted, "Mayor who? Kansas isn't New York and we sure as heck don't want to be. I'll stay focused here in God's Country on making life more affordable and keeping communities safe, neither of which can be said about New York."

\u201cMayor who? Kansas isn't New York and we sure as heck don't want to be. I'll stay focused here in God's Country on making life more affordable and keeping communities safe, neither of which can be said about New York.\u201d
— Derek Schmidt (@Derek Schmidt) 1664301871

Former Federal Communications Commission chair Ajit Pai tweeted, "Part of the Kansas brand is being nice and charitable toward people from other states who guffaw at how backward or inferior they think Kansas is—even when, most likely, none of them have actually spent meaningful time in the Sunflower State."

Radio host Buck Sexton tweeted, "I saw two shirtless homeless men throwing trash cans at each other last week at 10am in Times Square, and had a maniac threaten a family member with a stick this past weekend- while she was pushing a stroller. So yes, NYC has a brand."

"I lived in Kansas for a number of years. 'Brand' is overrated. Safe streets, good neighborhoods, and politicians more concerned with substance than brand are what make Kansas special," tweeted Jason Whitlock, host of BlazeTV's "Fearless with Jason Whitlock."

"Kansas has KS wheat, Jayhawk basketball, KS beef, and the Wizard of Oz. What's New York Mayor Adams' brand? Violence, murder, homelessness, and high taxes? I'll take Kansas any day," GOP Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas tweeted.

"I'm choosing Kansas over New York City 100 times out of 100. See, I've never stepped over human feces in Kansas the way I have in NYC," Blaze Media's Keith Malinak tweeted. "Wait....Is human fecal matter on the sidewalks of your city your brand, @ericadamsfornyc?"

While many Americans have been disturbed by the "Drag Queen Story Hour" phenomenon that involves drag queens reading stories to children, Mayor Adams has previously expressed support for the practice of holding events with drag queens at schools and libraries.

"Drag storytellers, and the libraries and schools that support them, are advancing a love of diversity, personal expression, and literacy that is core to what our city embraces," a tweet posted earlier this year on the @NYCMayor Twitter account read. "At a time when our LGBTQ+ communities are under increased attack across this country, we must use our education system to educate. The goal is not only for our children to be academically smart, but also emotionally intelligent," another tweet stated.

\u201cAt a time when our LGBTQ+ communities are under increased attack across this country, we must use our education system to educate. The goal is not only for our children to be academically smart, but also emotionally intelligent.\u201d
— Mayor Eric Adams (@Mayor Eric Adams) 1655422119

'RuPaul's Drag Race' producer indicates he is pleased that people who watched the show during their childhood were 'inspired ... to become drag queens'



"RuPaul's Drag Race" producer Fenton Bailey told Deadline that he is pleased that individuals who watched it as a kid were motivated to become a drag queen.

"And another thing is that the show has been on sufficiently long now — and this happens a lot — that queens will say, 'Oh, I remember watching the show when I was a kid.' [Laughs] Which is kind of great to hear — to know that there were kids hiding under the covers in their bedrooms, watching the show late at night, and that it inspired them to become drag queens," Bailey said, according to the outlet.

Bailey said that "whether it's in America or not, we are seeing an attempt to turn the clock back to stereotypical values. To a time when women weren't empowered, when there wasn't marriage equality — there's been a huge sort of retrenchment. And this show is the antithesis of that, because the message of 'Drag Race' is: 'Don’t be afraid to be yourself, be who you are.' And I think that that’s a really important message in today's political environment, and not just in America. I mean, countries with a really strong Catholic tradition — like Spain, the Philippines and Italy — have a really vibrant version of 'Drag Race.' Because they act as a counterbalance to conservatism, bigotry, and homophobia, and all those other unpleasant things that make everyone's life so unpleasant."

Bailey also said that people of all ages attend RuPaul's DragCon, including "families, kids, grandparents — it's multi-generational and fun," he said.

The problem of children being exposed to drag queens has become a disturbing trend. People were outraged earlier this year by a "Drag the Kids to Pride" event at a bar in Dallas, Texas.

And for years, conservatives have decried drag queen story hour events that involve drag queens reading stories to children, but some Democratic politicians have openly embraced the phenomenon.

"I had the honor of assisting with a Drag Queen Story Hour in New York in April," Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York has tweeted.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has also expressed his support. A tweet posted this year on the @NYCMayor Twitter account declared, "Drag storytellers, and the libraries and schools that support them, are advancing a love of diversity, personal expression, and literacy that is core to what our city embraces."

\u201cDrag storytellers, and the libraries and schools that support them, are advancing a love of diversity, personal expression, and literacy that is core to what our city embraces.\u201d
— Mayor Eric Adams (@Mayor Eric Adams) 1655422119

NYC Mayor Eric Adams says 'Drag storytellers' are promoting 'love of diversity, personal expression, and literacy'



New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, is openly supporting the practice of having drag queen events at schools and libraries, claiming that they foster literacy.

"Drag storytellers, and the libraries and schools that support them, are advancing a love of diversity, personal expression, and literacy that is core to what our city embraces," a tweet on the @NYCMayor Twitter account declares. "At a time when our LGBTQ+ communities are under increased attack across this country, we must use our education system to educate. The goal is not only for our children to be academically smart, but also emotionally intelligent," another tweet states.

\u201cDrag storytellers, and the libraries and schools that support them, are advancing a love of diversity, personal expression, and literacy that is core to what our city embraces.\u201d
— Mayor Eric Adams (@Mayor Eric Adams) 1655422119

Drag Queen Story Hour events involve drag queens reading books to children — many people consider the concept to be highly inappropriate.

In response to the mayor's endorsement of the practice, Sara Gonzales, host of BlazeTV's "The News & Why It Matters," tweeted, "Holy crap. Democrats, please keep doing this."

"Yes, Democrats, this is the hill you should die on. Bring this all the way to the midterms. Great political strategy," Matt Walsh tweeted.

"'Drag queens for the children' is one hell of a 2022 slogan," Ben Shapiro tweeted.

"They really are gonna fully embrace being the groomer party," tweeted Steve Deace, host of BlazeTV's "Steve Deace Show."

"The USA's Democratic Party has completely lost the plot. Including the so called 'moderates'. I am not American but I hope they get absolutely rekt in the next election," ZUBY tweeted.

Democratic Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York has previously praised Drag Queen Story Hour. "I had the honor of assisting with a Drag Queen Story Hour in New York in April," Maloney tweeted last week. In April, she tweeted, "thanks to [New York Public Library] and programs like Draq Queen story hour, NYC’s next generation are getting a well rounded education about LGBTQ+ issues and gender identity."

\u201cAcross the country, books are being banned, which are depriving our nation\u2019s youth. \n\nBut thanks to @NYPL and programs like Draq Queen story hour, NYC\u2019s next generation are getting a well rounded education about LGBTQ+ issues and gender identity. \n\n@YuhuaHamasaki\u201d
— Carolyn B. Maloney (@Carolyn B. Maloney) 1649709775

Drag Queen Story Hour executive director Jonathan Hamilt has contended that there is a world of difference between adult drag shows and Drag Queen Story Hour events for kids.

"Someone who is bigoted or doesn't want to do the research, they're not going to understand that an adult drag show at an adult bar, in the evening, with alcohol, is different from a Drag Queen Story Hour nonprofit event at 11am at a public library," Hamilt said, according to the Independent.

"Obviously, all adults act differently when they're around children and when they're not. Every schoolteacher has a private life outside of working with children, and you act appropriately around children. That's just a normal thing that all adults do, no matter who you are – gay or straight, drag queen or not," Hamilt said, according to the outlet.

NYC mayor desperately tries to lure LGBT Floridians to New York with a flamboyant billboard campaign



Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams has decided to capitalize on the progressive outcry over Florida's new Parental Rights in Education bill in a desperate attempt to reverse the tide of New Yorkers fleeing the city for more conservative localities.

What are the details?

In a press release issued Monday, the mayor's office announced the launch of a flamboyant billboard campaign in five Florida cities that attacks the Florida legislation — which has been profusely and inaccurately dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by media critics — as ant-LGBT and anti-free speech.

Its aim is clearly to woo LGBT Floridians to leave Florida and come take up residence in New York City.

BREAKING: @NYCMayor announces a new digital billboard campaign in five Florida markets denouncing the hateful #DontSayGay law and inviting Floridians to move to New York. https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1510997656209866759\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/1Dqbxmzqjo
— NYC Mayor's Office (@NYC Mayor's Office) 1649086041

Featured digital billboard ads will run in Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, and West Palm Beach roughly through the end of May. They will contain messages such as "Come to the city where you can say whatever you want," "When other states show their true colors, we show ours," and "Loud. Proud. Still allowed."

"People say a lot of ridiculous things in New York. 'Don't Say Gay' isn't one of them," another message reads, according to documents provided by the mayor's office.

In a statement, Adams said, "I am the mayor of New York City, but I have a message for Florida’s LGBTQ+ community — come to a city where you can say and be whoever you want. Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill is the latest shameful, extremist culture war targeting the LGBTQ+ community. Today, we say to the families living in fear of this state-sponsored discrimination that you will always have a home in New York City."

What else?

Only time will tell if the campaign proves successful, though there are reasons to be skeptical at the notion that people will ditch the beachy income-tax-free Sunshine State in exchange for residency in pricey, crime-ridden New York City — especially over a bill that has widespread support among all voters, including Democrats.

The much-maligned Florida bill has been grossly mischaracterized by left-wing media pundits and cultural figures. Some have argued it will result in the deaths of Florida children, while others seem to genuinely believe it outlaws saying the word, "gay."

In actuality, the bill sets forward a popular rule: the barring of classroom discussion about sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third-grade classrooms with scaleable guidelines for discussion on the controversial subject matter in grades thereafter.

That, according to the NYC mayor's office, amounts to "a targeted attack on the LGBTQ+ population."

Serial shooter terrorizes New York City and Washington, DC



Police in New York City and Washington, D.C., are on the hunt for a serial shooter who has been attacking homeless men in both cities, murdering two and wounding three others so far.

Authorities said the lone gunman is a "cold-blooded killer" who has targeted sleeping homeless men in a series of shootings. New York Mayor Eric Adams and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said they were coordinating with federal authorities to stop the killer in a joint statement released late Sunday night.

"The work to get this individual off our streets before he hurts or murders another individual is urgent," the mayors said.
“As our law enforcement agencies work quickly with federal partners to locate the suspect, we are also calling on unsheltered residents to seek shelter. Again, it is heartbreaking and tragic to know that in addition to all the dangers that unsheltered residents face, we now have a cold-blooded killer on the loose, but we are certain that we will get the suspect off the street and into police custody.”
Joint statement from @NYCMayor and Washington, DC @MayorBowser on recent murders targeting individuals experiencing homelessness:pic.twitter.com/ESitpWNI2U
— City of New York (@City of New York) 1647229311
The series of attacks began on March 3, when the suspect shot and wounded a male victim on the 1100 block of New York Avenue in the nation's capital, the New York Post reported.
A second victim was shot five days later on the 1700 block of H Street, authorities said. These first two victims sustained non-life threatening injuries.
But a third victim was fatally stabbed and shot last Wednesday, according to police. The victim's body was discovered on the 400 block of New York Avenue.
At some point before Saturday morning, the suspect traveled to New York, where he attacked two more people with the same M.O., authorities said.
The first New York victim was a 38-year-old homeless man who was shot and wounded as he slept on King Street in Soho. The victim was hospitalized in stable condition, according to the Post.
About one hour later, the suspect was caught on camera fatally shooting a homeless man as he slept in a sleeping bag about 15 blocks outside of 148 Lafayette Street.
Disturbing video shows the suspect kick the sleeping man several times, check to see if anyone is watching, and then take out a firearm and shoot the man in the head.
WANTED for SHOOTING: Today, between 4:36 am & 6:00 am, in the confines of the @NYPD1pct and @NYPD5pct, the suspect approached two homeless individuals on the street and shot both of them, killing one individual. NYPD executives will provide an update live at 9:30 PMpic.twitter.com/JwoaWnKrzd
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPD NEWS) 1647135879
The video was first reported by WABC-TV.

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Ballistics found at the two crime scenes in Soho matched shell casings found in Washington, D.C., the New York Post reported.
NYPD has issued new patrol guidance after the attacks, according to the Post. Officers have been directed to "proactively engage with apparently homeless individuals," conduct wellness checks, and offer shelter services.
Police were also instructed to warn people about the shooter and show them wanted posters of the suspected gunman.

“Our homeless population is one of our most vulnerable and an individual preying on them as they sleep is an exceptionally heinous crime,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said in a statement Sunday night.

“We will use every tool, every technique and every partner to bring the killer to justice,” Sewell said.