‘Not Factually Accurate’: Eric Adams Fires Back At Reporter

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During a press briefing on Monday, NYC Mayor Eric Adams (D-NY) grilled a reporter over an accusation that his office was reluctant to publicize "Know Your Rights Immigration Guidance Cards" amid migrant fears regarding interactions with ICE.

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00:00Good, how are you? I had two questions. First, I was wondering if you could talk

00:05about your office's reluctance to publicize Know Your Rights immigration

00:10guidance, you know amid the fear amongst migrants about having interactions with

00:14ICE. And then secondly, I'm wondering if you've scheduled a briefing yet on the

00:19Queensborough Bridge pedestrian path and when you anticipate it will open. First, I'm not quite sure

00:25where you got that we are not doing Know Your Rights. Manny has made that clear. We

00:32looked over the items, we release it, we get ready to put it on our monitors,

00:39our link NYC kiosk. We've been sending it out. Other people, other entities

00:44has asked us for it. We turn it over to them. You know, when you look at the

00:50fact that we're going to be putting on over 2,000 kiosks, we already sent it out.

00:54It has already been approved. Starting on April 1st, we will also have Know Your

00:59Rights resources at all link NYC sites. And so, I'm not sure where that came

01:05from. I mean, it's like trying to feed into the narrative that we are afraid to

01:10do the things we were doing already. So, if there's some factual information

01:15about that, I'm not aware of it. And if somebody is preventing it from coming

01:18out, please share with me because that should not be happening. I was very clear

01:23with Manny, who traveled with me to the Darien Gap, who traveled with me to El

01:29Paso, who has been a dreamer and has been very compassionate about this issue. So,

01:35I'm not sure where that came from. That's part of the old narrative, you know, we

01:40don't want to criticize the administration. No, we want to get stuff

01:42done. We don't want to get caught up in, you know, all of this name-calling. That's

01:48not governing, folks. You know, so I don't, I'm not part of that. What is that

01:52terminology people use? The, this syndrome of just want to be attack and

01:58attack. I gotta, I gotta manage a city. So, we're doing it. I don't know who's

02:01telling you that, but it's not factually accurate.

‘Not Factually Accurate’: Eric Adams Fires Back At Reporter

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