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And now, as usual on Wednesdays, our lead Eric Adams reporter, Elizabeth Kim,

with excerpts from, analysis of, and to take some phone calls and texts about Mayor Adams' weekly Tuesday news conference.

Liz's top headline on Gothamist today, the written version. Mayor Adams says undocumented New Yorkers

aren't owed due process defying the Constitution. And here's part of the exchange the mayor had on that.

I'm an American. Americans have certain rights. You know, the Constitution is for Americans. And I'm not a person that

snuck into this country. My ancestors have been here for a long time. Joining us now to break down

that exchange, plus what Mayor Eric Adams hopes, a second Trump administration might do to stem

the migrant crisis, as he calls it, in New York City, and much more is Elizabeth Kim, WNYC, and

Gothamist lead Eric Adams reporter. Hi, Liz. Happy Wednesday, Brian. Want to talk about that clip?

Sure. I mean, to me, it was quite astonishing, not only because the mayor was incorrect, but also

because of the politics of this mayor.

I mean, he, as Brooklyn Borough president and as mayor, has gone out of his way to cultivate ties,

donor relationships within the immigrant community. Now, I imagine, you know, many of those

immigrants are citizens, but I also imagine that some of them are not citizens. And it's ironic because the mayor is currently, one of the reasons he's being indicted is for accepting illegal foreign donations.

So this relationship that he has with the immigrant community is quite deep. And I just thought that was a really

striking statement that he made, saying that the Constitution is for Americans and also this

characterization of, I guess, migrants as people who have snuck into this country.

I want to play another clip that goes to what I had just asked Congressman Goldman about

at the end of the last segment, and that's the distinction between being charged with a crime

and being convicted of a crime with respect to

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