NEW YORK, CMC – New York Council speaker Adrienne Adams has demanded the resignation of the Metropolis’s mayor, Eric Adams, over his collusion with President Donald Trump in regards to the deportation of unlawful immigrants.
“With the resignation of deputy mayors, it has grow to be clear that Mayor Adams has now misplaced the arrogance and belief of his workers, his colleagues in authorities, and New Yorkers,” mentioned Adams in a press release on Monday.
“He now should prioritize New York Metropolis and New Yorkers, step apart and resign. “This administration not can successfully govern with Eric Adams as mayor,” she added.
“These resignations are the end result of the mayor’s actions and choices which have led to months of instability and now compromise the Metropolis’s sovereignty, threaten chaos, and danger hurt to our households.
“There may be an excessive amount of at stake for our metropolis and New Yorkers to permit this to proceed,” Adams continued. “Now we have endured sufficient scandal, selfishness, and embarrassment, all of which distract from the management that New Yorkers deserve. That is the alternative of public service.
“Our metropolis wants a pacesetter dedicated to defending New Yorkers and enhancing their lives,” she mentioned.
Because the US Division of Justice (DOJ) strikes to dismiss federal prosecutors’ corruption case in opposition to Mayor Adams as a result of he collaborates with Trump’s mass deportation plans, the 4 high New York Metropolis officers mentioned on Monday that they might not proceed to serve within the Eric Adams administration.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who has been beneath rising strain to drive Mayor Adams out of workplace amid the scandal, mentioned she is going to meet with key metropolis leaders in her Manhattan workplace on Tuesday.
Not too long ago, high New York Metropolis Council officers expressed deep concern about Mayor Adams’s intention to challenge an govt order permitting United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers entry to Rikers Island Correctional Facility in New York amid Trump’s mass deportation plan that includes Caribbean immigrants.
Murad Awawdeh, president and chief govt officer of the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), an umbrella immigration advocacy group of over 200 immigrant teams in New York, condemned the mayor’s newest motion, claiming that he has “no integrity.”
“He’s purposely obfuscating ICE’s mandate at Rikers Island to do an finish run round our native legal guidelines,” Awawdeh advised the Caribbean Media Company (CMC) on Sunday. “By doing so, he simply made himself complicit with the Trump administration’s detention to-deportation pipeline in alternate for a Division of Justice promise to squash the five-count federal corruption costs in opposition to him.
“It is a deal made with the satan to attempt to roll again our metropolis’s longstanding sanctuary legal guidelines and insurance policies – insurance policies that enable all New Yorkers to dwell freely whereas enhancing everybody’s public security,” he added. “Historical past won’t look kindly on his betrayal of our communities, shared values, and dedication to due course of.
“We are going to struggle this legally doubtful motion with the complete drive of our folks energy and with the elected officers in New York Metropolis who try to control,” Awawdeh acknowledged.
