AOC Says Mayor Eric Adams Attack on Migrants 'Is Not Leadership'

The congressional Democrat knocked the New York City Mayor for declaring that asylum-seekers and other immigrants would 'destroy' the city, comments another lawmaker denounced as 'repugnant MAGA garbage.'

is among those criticizing New York City's Democratic Mayor Eric Adams for comments he made this week demonizing asylum-seekers and other migrants.

Defenders of refugee and migrant rights, however, pushed back after video of the remarks spread on social media. But, she said, the divisive rhetoric like that from Mayor Adams "puts solutions even further away, and only escalates tensions and obstacles."

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