'Excellent swimmers': Dem mayor floats migrants as solution for city's lifeguard shortage
NYC has been struggling with a massive migrant crisis
Adam Shaw By Adam Shaw Fox News
Published May 14, 2024 4:05pm EDT
New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday called for migrants to be allowed to work as lifeguards as the city faces a shortage for the role -- arguing that many are "excellent swimmers."
Adams was asked at a press conference about a lifeguard shortage in the city as Memorial Day nears and with the summer months approaching.
He said the situation could be helped "If we had a migrant and asylum seeker plan that states those jobs that we are…in high demand we could expedite."
"How do we have a large body of people that are in our city, and 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.
"That just doesn’t make sense."
He listed off other occupations, including food service workers and nurses, where the Big Apple may face shortages.
"We have all these eligible people waiting to work with the skills we need to fill the jobs but we are unable to allow them to work because bureaucracy is in the way," he said. "That just does not make sense."
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