Issue: Mayor Adams’ proposal at a City Hall information session to hire immigrants as lifeguards in New York City.
Okay, okay, let’s let the immigrants be lifeguards (“Eric: Let the immigrants go swimming,” May 15).
But I know from personal experience that the open water lifeguard exam is no joke. And the city’s beaches will open in two weeks, so there is no time to train.
Maryland trains new lifeguards six months before they take the exam. Still, not everyone passes.
Louis Scarcella
coney island
Mayor Adams doesn’t have to go through the trouble of finding and hiring immigrants for lifeguard jobs.
He already has hundreds of thousands of people just like me who have been trained enough to survive the past three years under the disastrous Bidenomics scam.
Brian Bendle
Wayne, New Jersey
Adams seems to have an extraordinary team of imaginative brainstormers. Asked about the city’s lifeguard shortage at a City Hall press conference, the mayor proposed an outrageous solution based on unfounded assumptions about qualifications. It’s just as bad an idea as vending machines dispensing free naloxone for opioid addiction.
ronald frank
west orange new jersey
So what will it be?
Others complain that immigrants are lazy and live off government benefits. But when the city wants to employ them and make them a decent living, suddenly this is something to be ridiculed and ridiculed?
I’m glad that immigrants are now able to earn a decent living and integrate into our workforce. In fact, it’s nice to see people grow, no matter where they come from.
Arthur Gutman
great neck
Does Mayor Adams want immigrants to be lifeguards at city pools? The only aquatic skill they have demonstrated is illegally crossing the Rio Grande.
Yes, this is exactly what parents want. Immigrants who don’t speak English are monitoring the child’s safety. In fact, it is very likely that some of these immigrant lifeguards are criminals.
If Adams thought they were such great swimmers, why not tell them to swim back to their home countries?
JR Cummings
manhattan
The issue: Sen. Bob Menendez threw his wife under the bus when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
To me, Sen. Bob Menendez is as corrupt and a fraud as a $3 bill (“Nadine’s Breast Cancer,” May 17).
I don’t doubt that his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, but playing the sympathy card at his announcement is weak and shameful. This only happened after he learned about his “generational trauma” just a few days ago and then accused his wife of possessing gold bullion in the couple.
Breast cancer is troublesome and serious. I knew that too, because I had just buried his wife a few weeks earlier after a long and courageous battle with breast cancer.
Senator Menendez, you are not a courageous or honorable politician.
henry chan
briarcliff
So, Menendez and his wife were captured, arrested, and charged with a bribery scheme and payments of cash and gold bars.
How sad to see Menendez, who is currently on trial, trying to shift all the blame onto his wife. So much for loyalty to your spouse.
So much for the vow to “get through the good times and the bad.” How low can you go as a man?
Gene O’Brien
white stone
That’s a real man, a man who would throw his own wife under the bus.
Philip Vallone
ossining
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