The New York City Department of Education this week defended its top attorney's call for donations to a nonprofit that provides legal aid to immigrants facing deportation despite Mayor Eric Adams pledging to work with the incoming administration.
DOE general counsel Elizabeth Vladeck posted on X on Dec. 31: "Your support is essential in furthering our mission to provide free legal and social services to detained adults and unaccompanied children facing immigration removal proceedings. Make a gift to the Florence Project today!"
The department said in a statement that Vladeck complied with the DOE's social media protocols and that she posted the message "on her own time."
But a source familiar with the department told the New York Post, "You have a senior member of the administration, the top attorney for the city's largest agency, who is basically bucking the mayor behind his back."
Adams met with incoming border czar Tom Homan in early December, saying after the meeting, "I am not going to be 'warring' with this president. I'm going to be working with this president."
Homan said in an interview after the meeting that Adams "wants to help ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] look for national security threats. He wants to help ICE find over 340,000 missing children, which many of them are going to be in the city."
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