QUESTION
Should a full agency for immigrant affairs be established in NYC?
1:44:54
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68 sec
The concept of creating a full agency for immigrant affairs is under consideration, focusing on improving long-term operations for asylum seekers and streamlining services.
- Molly Schaeffer, Interim Director at OASO, underscores the importance of evaluating different models for addressing asylum seeker operations over the next several years.
- Alexa Avilés, Council Member, highlights that 40% of New York City's population consists of immigrants, underscoring the need for a centralized agency to consolidate services.
Alexa Avilés
1:44:54
For miss Shaffer, do you think there should be the creation of a full agency of immigrant affairs?
Molly Schaeffer
1:45:02
What would be their purview that's different than the purview now?
1:45:05
I think we're constantly thinking about how to do the long term asylum seeker operations better and figure out what makes the most sense for the next couple of years, 3, 5 years, and figure out what that actually looks like.
1:45:19
So if the idea is something that would subsume this effort, there's lots of different ideas talked about, there's lots of different models that we're looking at to make sure that whatever the city ultimately does makes the most sense for this crisis.
Alexa Avilés
1:45:33
Got it.
1:45:34
I have I have one clear fact, 40% of the New York City population is immigrants.
1:45:40
It deserves a full agency that can consolidate services and could make this less of a a run across multiple agencies where you have no jurisdiction, but you have partnership, but they have program.
1:46:00
It's a little bit of a nightmare.
