Don’t blame Eric Adams for New York’s migrant crisis

New York mayor Eric Adams has always been known for his quirky personality and tendency to say odd things. But even longtime Adams-watchers have taken a second look at some of his recent headscratchers. At a housing forum a few months ago, he told an octogenarian tenants’s advocate — who fled the Nazis with her family when she was a child — that she was talking to him as though he was “someone that’s on a plantation that you own”. 

More recently, at a flag-raising for Indian independence (Adams has attended dozens...