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NYC deputy mayors who resigned informed Adams they wanted to make their immigrant dad and mom ‘proud’
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NYC deputy mayors who resigned informed Adams they wanted to make their immigrant dad and mom ‘proud’

Last updated: February 18, 2025 11:49 pm
Editorial Board Published February 18, 2025
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First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer and Deputy Mayor for Well being and Human Providers Anne Williams-Isom, who’re each second-generation immigrants, used that very same phrase of their Tuesday resignation letters to Adams.

The mayor has pleaded not responsible to the fees towards him and insists there was no quid-pro-quo with the Trump administration.

Torres-Springer, the daughter of Filipino immigrants, wrote in her letter she has over her a long time in public service been dedicated to upholding “the values of this city” and doing “everything in my capacity to serve and protect New Yorkers.”

“Importantly, I also pledged to my family that I would only serve in ways that make them proud and are faithful to the struggles and sacrifices my parents made when they immigrated to this country to forge a better life,” she wrote to Adams.

“It is with a heavy heart but unending gratitude to you and the great men and women of this city who have made my career in public service possible that I must tender my resignation.”

In her letter, Williams-Isom, whose mom immigrated to the U.S. from Trinidad and Tobago, made a reference to her household roots after noting she is going to depart metropolis authorities “especially proud of the steps we have taken to welcome and protect” greater than 200,000 principally Latin American migrants to the town since spring 2022.

“As the daughter of immigrants … my family has been by my side during this journey and it’s important to me that they remain proud of the way I have served,” wrote Williams-Isom, who has helped lead the Adams administration’s migrant disaster response. “It is therefore bittersweet that I must offer my resignation.”

Requested about their letters, Adams spokeswoman Kayla Mamelak referred to an announcement he issued Tuesday by which he mentioned he’s “disappointed” to see his deputies depart, however “given the current challenges, I understand their decision.”

Meera Joshi, the deputy mayor for operations who’s additionally a second-generation immigrant, resigned Tuesday, too, however didn’t particularly handle the difficulty of household pleasure in her letter to Adams. She did write her immigrant dad and mom got here to the U.S. with the “same purpose” lots of the public servants she has labored alongside with espouse.

Chauncey Parkers, the deputy mayor for public security who additionally introduced his departure from the administration Tuesday, hadn’t but submitted a proper resignation letter as of Wednesday afternoon, in keeping with Adams’ workplace.

Tuesday’s resignations got here after sources mentioned the 4 deputies privately informed Adams final weekend they’d step down as a result of they’re uneasy about whether or not Adams can act independently of Trump given the weird phrases that the president’s Division of Justice has positioned on the dismissal of the mayor’s corruption indictment.

The dismissal request asks a decide to drop the case for now, however depart the DOJ with the opportunity of bringing it again as early as November.

Within the interim, Trump’s DOJ leaders wrote they count on Adams to assist in Trump’s hardline effort to focus on undocumented immigrants in New York for deportations, a caveat that each critics and allies of the mayor say makes him a “hostage” to Trump’s agenda. Ex-Interim Manhattan U.S. Lawyer Danielle Sassoon, who resigned final week somewhat than file the dismissal movement, wrote in a searing resignation letter the scenario amounted to an unlawful “quid pro quo” for Adams.

Amid the deputy mayor resignations, Hochul met Tuesday with prime native elected leaders to debate the opportunity of eradicating him. Meantime, as an alternative of instantly dismissing Adams’ case, Federal Choose Dale Ho, who presides over his case, has ordered Trump’s DOJ officers to seem for a listening to Wednesday to elucidate their movement.

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