REMARKS
Call for unity and protection of all New Yorkers amid immigration challenges
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Council Member Jumaane Williams concludes with remarks on the need for a balanced approach to immigration challenges, emphasizing unity and protection for all New Yorkers.
- Williams acknowledges failures at federal and state levels while criticizing the spread of misinformation
- He stresses the importance of not directing anger towards immigrants but towards leaders who made decisions
- Williams calls on the mayor to protect all New Yorkers while fulfilling duties to meet with the president
- He concludes with a message of unity, quoting 'No one let go of anyone's hands' from Brazil
Jumaane Williams
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Alright.
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Thank you.
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I I agree.
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So I wanna make sure 2 things can be true at the same time.
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I think we were failed a lot by, Washington, to be honest, and also by Albany.
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I think the governor could've done more.
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Those things didn't happen, and, also, we did not have to spread misinformation.
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There were things that we could've done here as well, like connect them with, make sure they have their legal, applications in at a more timely manner.
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So there's a lot of things that could've gone wrong gone better.
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That doesn't mean we have to spread, misinformation and use the the righteous anger, because new long term New Yorkers have a right to be angry about what they did not get.
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I am angry.
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But staring that anger away from leaders who made that decision, to people who had nothing to do with it is very, very dangerous.
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And my message is hopefully that the mayor will stop.
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As a mayor, you have to meet with whomever is president.
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I get that.
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But you also have a duty to protect all New Yorkers who are here.
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Multiple things can be true at the same time.
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People are very worried about what's to come up in a in a couple of days.
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End with what I've been saying, and I have to give control Lander his credit.
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He's the one who put me on to the saying that they're doing in Brazil, which is no one let go of anyone's hands.
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And I'm really hoping we can hold on to that to get through, what might be coming, in the future.
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Thank you.