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Council Member Avilés thanks panel and expresses concerns about current situation
4:35:33
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Council Member Alexa Avilés expresses gratitude to the panel for their work, advocacy, and energy in contrast to the agencies' 'flatline advocacy'. She emphasizes the importance of protecting New Yorkers in the current climate and maintaining New York's multilingual identity despite federal actions.
- Avilés criticizes the lack of fervor from city agencies in addressing immigrant issues
- She thanks the panel for pushing accountability and maintaining New York's multilingual character
- Avilés reaffirms commitment to New York as a diverse, multilingual city despite federal actions
Alexa Avilés
4:35:33
Thank you.
4:35:33
Thank you so much for your testimony.
4:35:36
I guess first, I'd like to thank this panel, obviously, for your work and community, your incredible advocacy.
4:35:43
You brought the energy that I was hoping our agencies would bring, the fervor, the commitment, the fight, the understanding that we are in a very particular moment and our responsibility is to muster use everything in our power to protect New Yorkers.
4:36:01
And what we saw was like flatline advocacy, and it is infuriating.
4:36:05
So I just wanna thank you all for pushing through and pushing all of us to to hold accountability.
4:36:12
And I just feel the need to say this.
4:36:15
You know, the executive order from the Trump administration declaring English as the official language.
4:36:21
So whatever that theater is for their xenophobic audience, we will continue to be a multilingual city, and thank you for the work of of building on that incredible resource of people that we have in our city who can offer work, both work opportunities and just really lean into the multiracial, multilingual, multi beautiful city that we are.
4:37:00
So thank you truly from the bottom of my heart for pushing through and making us live into that reality.
4:37:10
I guess with that, we will move on to the next panel but thank you.