New York mayor’s remarks on migrants ‘dangerous’, warns fellow Democrat

Progressive Tiffany Caban says Eric Adams' hostile comments on migrants have real possibility' of inciting violence

A prominent New York progressive is warning that mayor Eric Adams's hostile comments about the rising number of migrants in the city are dangerous" and risk inciting violence against the new arrivals and other immigrants.

Tiffany Caban, aiming for re-election to the city council this November and long endorsed by leading leftwing figures, including US senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, attacked as irresponsible" the mayor's remarks last week that the sharp increase in migration to New York would destroy" the city.