There was a time when New York City Mayor Eric Adams would refer to himself as the Joe Biden of Brooklyn. Now, roughly a week shy of Biden’s last day in office, Adams used his annual state of the city address to get one more dig in against the Biden administration.
“And when Washington refused to take action on a broken immigration system, we stood up for our city and pushed back while still caring for hundreds of hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers,” Adams said at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
The attack on the soon-to-be former president’s legacy on immigration punctuates the end of what has been described as a chilly relationship between the two for the latter half of Biden’s presidency.