NYC Council Speaker Demands Mayor Eric Adam's Resignation

NEW YORK, New York – New York Council speaker Adrienne Adams has demanded the resignation of the city’s mayor Eric Adams over his collusion with President Donald Trump concerning the deportation of illegal immigrants.

“With the resignation of deputy mayors, it has become clear that Mayor Adams has now lost the confidence and trust of his own staff, his colleagues in government and New Yorkers,” said Adams in a statement on Monday. 

“He now must prioritize New York City and New Yorkers, step aside and resign. 

“This administration no longer has the ability to effectively govern with Eric Adams as mayor,” she added. 

“These resignations are the culmination of the mayor’s actions and decisions that have led to months of instability and now compromise the City’s sovereignty, threaten chaos, and risk harm to our families. 

“There is too much at stake for our city and New Yorkers to allow this to continue,”  Adams continued. “We have endured enough scandal, selfishness and embarrassment, all of which distract from the leadership that New Yorkers deserve. This is the opposite of public service. 

“Our city needs a leader totally committed to protecting New Yorkers and improving their lives,” she said. 

As the US Department of Justice (DOJ) moves to dismiss federal prosecutors’ corruption case against Mayor Adams, as a result of his collaboration with Trump’s mass deportation plans, the four top New York City officials said on Monday that they cannot continue to serve in the Eric Adams administration. 

New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who has been under increasing pressure to force Mayor Adams out of office, amid the scandal, said she will be meeting with key city leaders in her Manhattan office on Tuesday. 

Recently, top New York City Council officials expressed deep concern about Mayor Adams’s intention to issue an executive order allowing United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents access to Rikers Island Correctional Facility in New York amid Trump’s mass deportation plan that involves Caribbean immigrants.

Murad Awawdeh, president and chief executive officer of the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), an umbrella immigration advocacy organization of over 200 immigrant groups in New York, condemned the mayor’s latest action, claiming that he has “no integrity.”

“He is purposely obfuscating ICE’s mandate at Rikers Island to do an end run around our local laws,” Awawdeh told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) on Sunday. “By doing so, he just made himself complicit with the Trump administration’s detention to deportation pipeline in exchange for a Department of Justice promise to squash the five-count federal corruption charges against him.

“This is a deal made with the devil to try to roll back our city’s longstanding sanctuary laws and policies – policies that allow all New Yorkers to live freely while improving everyone’s public safety,” he added. “History will not look kindly on his betrayal of our communities, shared values and commitment to due process.

“We will fight this legally dubious action with the full force of our people power, and with the elected officials in New York City who actually strive to govern,” Awawdeh stated.