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Embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams gently defended some of President-elect Donald Trump’s plans on Friday.

Appearing on “The View,” the moderate Democrat said, for example, that he personally opposes the mass deportation of criminal aliens but then stressed that he also has an issue with the huge influx of illegals into his city.

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“I don’t believe in mass deportation,” he began. “This is a city where we tell whomever is here to, if you’re a victim of a crime, call the police. If your child must be educated, let them go to school. If you need medical attention, allow them to go to the hospital.”

“But Americans have been clear though, we have a broken immigration system. I don’t believe in mass deportation, but I don’t believe in mass saturation. 220,000 migrants and asylum seekers came to the city, cost us $6.4 billion,” he added.

He went on to complain how, because of certain state and federal laws, he’s unable to let the illegals work, yet by the same token he’s not allowed to deport the ones who’re committing crime.

“We are not allowed to connect with ICE,” he continued. “This is a failed system. We need to fix it. And if we don’t fix it, we’re seeing what’s happening in Chicago, what’s happening in Houston, what’s happening in Denver.”

“This is wrong for cities to pick up this course. They only gave me $200 million out of $6.4 billion that should have gone to everyday issues in our city,” he added.

Earlier in the broadcast, he defended Trump’s choice for director of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK).

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When questioned about RFK’s more controversial proposals like removing fluoride from tap water, for instance, he said that he disagreed but did nevertheless admit that there might be something to it.

“I believe we should have fluoride in the water based on what my experts are telling me, but let’s be clear, we have a real problem with our food in our country,”  he said. “And we need to watch what we’re feeding our children.”

“It’s too much hormones, you know. Many people know, I almost lost my sight with diabetes. The doctors told me I would be blind in a year. I was going to lose my fingers and toes, and it was my food. It wasn’t my DNA — it was my dinner,” he added.

Leftist co-host Ana Navarro then pushed back by pointing to a report that many HHS employees have threatened to quit if RFK is confirmed as HHS director.

“Mayor, a lot of them want to resign,” she said. “When they see some of the people that are going to be on top, I think there’s going to be a mass exodus of people who have the institutional knowledge and the institutional memory and DoD at HHS.”

Adams, much to his credit, responded by lecturing said employees about their duty to their jobs, regardless of political ideology.

“If we love our country, then no one individual should take us away from our mission,” he said. “If you dedicated your life to a particular place, I dedicated my life to law enforcement. So if a new commissioner came in that I disagreed with, I was not going to say I’m going to resign.”

“Let’s love the country. Let’s love our cities. Let’s get away from the rhetoric of the professionalism that we know. Those are experts in this. They’re going to look at his proposal, do a real analysis, and make these decisions. It happens every day,” he added.

Toward the end of the show, Adams was questioned about his post-election willingness to work with Trump.

“I communicated with the president yesterday to state that there are many issues here in the city that we want to work together with the administration to address,” he told reporters on Thursday, according to Politico. “The city must move forward and that is what our call is to do.”

Over on “The View,” co-host Sunny Hostin brought up complaints from critics who’ve suggested “that you have recently embraced Trump, perhaps because you want either the charges dropped or perhaps a pardon from President-elect Trump.”

“Listen, I said it over and over again, I did nothing wrong,” he replied. “I spent 40 years of my life, 22 of them as a police officer, protecting the children and families of the city. I’m consistent of that. I live my life the way I expect everyday New Yorkers are supposed to live their life.”

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