New York City Mayor Eric Adams is expressing optimism that President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration will help fix the nation's broken immigration system and criticizing fellow Democrats for overlooking the issue of immigration ahead of last Tuesday's election.
Speaking to reporters at a Tuesday briefing, Adams said he is optimistic about the incoming Trump administration's pledges to secure the southern border to curb an ongoing influx of asylum seekers who have overwhelmed the Big Apple and other U.S. cities in the past two years.
"I am willing to sit down with this administration like I tried to sit down with the previous administration," Adams said in remarks. "I’m hoping this administration will hear what I’m saying and listen to some of the ideas that I have been pushing for close to two years now."
