New York City Mayor Eric Adams invoked the "American Dream" Thursday as he pushes to gift work visas to the illegal immigrants flooding his city.

It is the right of everybody who comes to the United States to work and pursue the "American Dream," Adams said, conflating present-day illegal immigrants with those immigrants who came legally in the 20th century.

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"Imagine if that right was stripped away from you. I don't care if you were the early Irish, early Italians, uh, the early Jews, the early Japanese ... No matter who you are or who you came from, you came here to pursue the American Dream," he said.

"The only country on the globe, I say over and over again, where 'dream' is attached to its name, and the most important aspect of that dream is the right to self-determination."

"Asylum seekers" in his city do not want free food, free bedding, or free healthcare, according to Adams. They just want to work.

"We must expedite work visas," he said. "It's just common sense. Thousands of jobs are available to be filled to provide the services we need in this city, the state, and in this country."

The national government needs to be involved in the process, Adams said.

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"This is not a New York City issue. This is a national issue, and it must be resolved by the national government," Adams said.

"So don't critique what we've done! Don't tell us how we could have done it better! Don't sit in the bleachers and be a spectator on this full-contact sport called 'asylum seekers'! Get on the field and fight this battle with us."