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Expansion of legal services for immigrant communities
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Commissioner Castro details MOIA's extensive legal services programs and initiatives designed to support immigrant communities in New York City.
- Highlights include Immigration Legal Support Centers, Legal Support Hotline, and Asylum Seeker Legal Assistance Network
- Over 12,000 legal screenings and 5,800 new cases handled in FY2024
- Legal support hotline received over 64,000 calls in 2024
- Launch of Immigrant Rights Collaborative reaching over 1,000 individuals through workshops
Manuel Castro
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Now I'll discuss brief discuss briefly our legal services.
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Ganmoya is very committed to expanding access to legal services of our immigrant communities in a time of heightened fear and anxiety.
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Over the past year, Moya has worked extensively with nonprofits and faith based organizations to inform immigrant New Yorkers of their rights and about cities services available to them.
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Last fiscal year, Moya invested more in legal services provision and know your rights materials and services than ever before.
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Moya immigration legal programs include immigration legal support centers, which there are 18, immigration legal support hotline, which we've grown over the years, asylum seeker legal assistance network, the immigrant rights workshop initiative, and the Immigrant Rights Collaborative.
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Together, these programs and initiatives expand access to immigration legal support to New York City's immigrant communities.
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Our immigration legal support centers, our contract nonprofit providers have conducted over 12,000 legal screenings and over 5,800 new cases in fiscal year twenty four.
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Our immigration legal support hotline has received over 64,000 calls in 2024.
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In our asylum seeker legal support network, an investment in nonprofit capacity provides linguistic and culturally responsive legal immigration assistance to newly arrived immigrants.
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ASIN also makes available content on people's rights and responsibilities, and more than 8,000 people have participated in in person sessions and workshops, while 3,300 community members have received individual legal consultations.
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Further, Moya launched the immigrant rights collater collaborative to deliver immigrant rights presentations in 2025.
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In just two months, over a thousand individuals have been reached through these workshops.