'Excellent swimmers': Dem mayor floats migrants as solution for city's lifeguard shortage
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday called for migrants to be allowed to be lifeguards, saying that some of them are 'excellent swimmers'
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." Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.
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"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.
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