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Council member criticizes administration's messaging on immigration
1:13:36
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Council Member Shahana Hanif criticizes the administration's mixed and contradictory messaging on immigration, expressing concern about its impact on immigrant communities.
- Hanif notes that the mayor's messaging has been confusing and at times anti-immigrant
- She highlights the negative impact on school attendance of immigrant students in her district
- Hanif contrasts the commissioner's words with the overall administration's messaging
Shahana Hanif
1:13:36
Commissioner, I'd like to turn to you now.
1:13:41
Appreciate your words on our immigrant community in your opening statement, and I wish that this type of messaging was uniform across the administration.
1:13:53
The mayor's message messaging has been mixed, confusing, and contradictory, and at worst, it has been anti immigrant and has contributed to an atmosphere of fear that has resulted in a decrease in school attendance of immigrant students in my district.