REMARKS
Concerns about potential mass deportations and preparedness
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Christine Quinn and Council Members discuss concerns about potential mass deportations under a future administration. They emphasize the need for preparation and highlight past successful efforts to protect immigrants.
- Uncertainty about future immigration policies creates anxiety
- Reference to past successful efforts to train staff and resist improper ICE raids
- Concerns raised about the potential for mistaken identities in mass deportations
- Discussion of the vulnerability of non-white individuals and those with accents
Gale A. Brewer
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We don't know
Christine Quinn
2:56:16
if that's gonna happen.
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But we need to prepare in case it does happen.
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And I know that work has begun, but they need to prioritize that work.
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Because when the raids happened under Trump 1, the de Blasio administration did a good job.
2:56:31
And we at Wynn, with the support of the administration, trained all of our security guards and ICE came one night to one of our shelters without the proper judicial documentation, and we were able to send them away and they left.
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So I know I spoke to the commissioner at DHS.
2:56:46
She is working on that, but I hope that they finish that work, a, and b, find ways to be even more protective than we were the first time.
Diana Ayala
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I always I always worry about this when I hear mass deportation because I wonder, you know, how are they gonna identify who's who?
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We don't walk around with signs on our heads saying I come from x, y, and z.
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And, it brings me back to a movie I saw many years ago where they actually, in California, recruited a whole bunch of migrants and threw them on a on a van and then sent them to deep into Mexico, and, you know, some of those people were citizens
UNKNOWN
2:57:24
Right.
Diana Ayala
2:57:24
You know, because there was no way of of identifying.
UNKNOWN
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So I'll
Diana Ayala
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be I'll be extra careful when I'm walking the street, you know, that I don't get snatched up as well, because under this new administration, one never knows.
Christine Quinn
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It makes anyone who isn't white and might have an accent vulnerable.
Diana Ayala
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That's all yeah.
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That's that's yeah.
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Yeah.
