Exclusive | Top NYC DOE lawyer urges donations for legal aid to migrants facing deportation on heels of Mayor Adams meeting with Trumps border czar

A top city Department of Education official is soliciting donations for a non-profit that helps migrants fight deportation, raising questions about whether she is “bucking the mayor” in his bid to work with President-elect Donald Trump.Elizabeth Vladeck, the DOE’s general counsel, posted a Dec.

31 request on X urging donations to the non-profit Florence Immigration & Refugee Rights Project.“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,” Vladeck wrote.“Make a gift to the Florence Project today!” Coming on the heels of Mayor Adams’ “cordial” meeting with incoming border czar Tom Homan and Hizzoner’s tougher stance on deporting migrants accused of violent crime, Vladeck’s pitch has raised some eyebrows. “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,” a source familiar with the DOE told The Post.

After a series of crimes allegedly involving migrants, Adams in February called for a change in the city’s sanctuary policy that sharply limits communication with federal agents, and for more cooperation with US Immigration and Customs.After migrants injured cops making a shoplifting arrest, Adams last month said he’s open to deporting those accused of violent crimes instead of waiting for convictions to ship them off.Most recently, he urged the NYPD to work with Homeland Security to file federal charges against the Guatemalan migrant accused of torching a woman to death on the subway.“I am not going to be ‘warring’ with this president.

I’m going to be working with this president,” said Adams.The Florence Project, which raised $32.6 million in 2022, according to it’s latest available tax filings, has assisted thousands of migrants coming through the Arizona border with Mexico, and informs as...