Charlamagne The God has called out Eric Adams for his hypocrisy – and for not doing his job – amid New York City’s dire migrant crisis.
The popular “Breakfast Club” host, 45, whose real name is Lenard Larry McKelvey, has blasted the mayor of New York City for trying to deter the flow of migrants arriving in the Big Apple from the U.S.-Mexico border.
Rather than staying true to his liberal roots, Adams is only being progressive in theory now that the problem is on his doorstep, Charlamagne said on the TV show.
While hosting The Daily Show, he said, “Thousands arrive in the city every week, and now Mayor Eric Adams is taking a break from the club to figure out what to do with them.”
Charlamagne The God, whose real name is Lenard Larry McKelvey, has blasted the mayor of New York City for trying to deter the flow of migrants arriving in the Big Apple from the US-Mexico border.
Shelters are filled to the brim and the city is desperate for federal help, Eric Adams has said repeatedly in recent months.
He played a clip of Adams advocating for ideas on “how we can deal with the situation” as hundreds of asylum seekers continue to make their way to New York every week.
In the video, the Democratic mayor said, “If you have any good ideas for us on how to handle the situation, I’m begging for your ideas.”
Charlamagne slammed Adams for not doing the job he was elected to do: “No, no. Our ideas? That’s not how it works! Our idea was to choose you to handle this!
“Imagine a doctor asking, ‘What do you think your kidneys need?’
He continued, “What bothers me is that Eric Adams was very progressive on immigration, while that wasn’t an issue in New York.
“When only Texas was involved, he said, ‘we have to open our hearts to the migrants.’
“Now that they’re coming to New York, he’s saying, ‘Build the wall.’
“What it all comes down to is that many people are progressive in theory until they are tested.
“Half of the people who want to abolish the police call 911 when they’re being robbed and say, ‘Send me your most racist cop.’
During the summer, more than 500 migrants were bused into New York each day, leaving many sleeping on the sidewalk outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown for days while awaiting processing.
The hotel is even being called the new ‘Ellis Island’, but the infrastructure for processing hundreds of migrants seemed more effective in the twentieth century than today.
Shelters are filled to the brim and the city is desperate for federal help, Adams has said repeatedly in recent months.
As New York deals with more than 60,000 people in its care, City Hall has signed nearly 200 eye-popping emergency contracts totaling more than $5 billion to house and care for migrants.
After setting up hundreds of emergency shelters, the shelter is still out of capacity and desperate for space to house migrants as required by the city’s Right to Shelter law, which Adams is trying to change.
This week it was reported that New York City has a huge new red light district thanks to the arrival of hordes of female Venezuelan migrants working as prostitutes, Adams said.
Roosevelt Avenue in the Corona neighborhood of Queens is filled with Venezuelan migrants offering sex services in the open air, the so-called “Market of Sweethearts.”
In recent weeks, we’ve seen sex workers walking the streets during the day, with many aggressively soliciting, even as children come home from school or during lunch breaks, as reported by Pix 11.
Previously, the Bronx was home to the Big Apple’s highest concentration of sex workers.
Mayor Adams said Tuesday that the situation is just one of many ways the migrant crisis is impacting the city, which has received more than 120,000 new asylum seekers since last spring.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent monitors as immigrants enter the United States after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas, on September 30, 2023. The officer had cut rolls of barbed wire to allow them to pass through for processing
During the summer, more than 500 migrants were bused into New York each day, leaving many sleeping on the sidewalk outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown for days as they waited to be processed.
Asylum seekers cross the Rio Grande from Mexico into the United States on September 30, 2023 in Eagle Pass, Texas
When asked by reporters about the open-air sex market, Adams said the situation had been brought to his attention and that he had visited the area himself, confirming that “illegal” activities take place in public at all hours of the day and night.
The Democrat said that according to the city’s “intel,” many of the sex workers are Venezuelan women who recently arrived in New York.
It is unclear whether these women were sex workers at home and sold their bodies of their own free will, or whether they were trafficked and forcibly trafficked.
Adams continued, “This is what happens when you create an atmosphere where people cannot take care of themselves and have to resort to illegal activities to do so.
“When I talk about the spiraling impact of how this is going to impact our city, this is what I’m talking about. We are going to create generational problems based on the failure of the national government and that is an example.”
The mayor said the city has identified two locations of concern: one in East New York in Brooklyn and the other on Roosevelt Avenue. He said he will focus on prosecuting the Johns and providing relief to the sex workers.
Prostitution is considered a class B misdemeanor in New York, punishable by up to three months in jail and/or a fine of up to $500. Patronizing a prostitute is a class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in jail and /or a fine of up to $1,000.