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Council member addresses impact of federal policies on immigrant communities
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Council Member Shahana Hanif addresses the impact of federal policies on immigrant communities, highlighting the challenges faced by these communities and the city's role in addressing them.
- Hanif emphasizes the ongoing issue of fraudsters preying on immigrant communities
- She points out the additional challenges posed by federal administration policies targeting immigrants
- The council member stresses the need for additional funding to address these issues
- Hanif argues that New York City has a unique role to play in the current political climate
Shahana Hanif
1:21:01
No.
1:21:01
Absolutely.
1:21:02
And I appreciate that because you all are already doing incredible work to get the word out at a time when we've got fraudsters preying on our community, which is a longstanding issue.
1:21:16
And then you've got the federal administration and our top leaders also targeting our community and detaining them, deporting them without due process.
1:21:26
And, you know, we have to talk about those issues as something that we're gonna see far more of an uptick with and a normalization of like that this is normal, that, yeah, immigrant communities because the federal administration thinks, you know, what you said or what you think isn't fine by our rules, you're you're not gonna be you're not gonna be allowed in our country anymore.
1:21:53
And I think our city has a distinct and unique role to play in that particular political in this particular political moment, which I think which is why I wanna push for the additional funding to be something that is seriously considered because of the ways in which people are isolating and are experiencing a different level of fear that's not just as they're trying to get their status, citizenship status done or reunited with their family members.