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Discussion on capacity and registration in immigration services
2:09:48
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Council Member Alexa Avilés and Hildalyn Colon discuss the challenges of capacity in providing immigration services and the suggestion for a registration system. Colon elaborates on the different levels of service needed and the current challenges in the field.
- Colon suggests that capacity can be divided, with some cases handled by non-profits and others by larger organizations.
- She highlights the issue of long wait times for asylum cases and the lack of long-term representation.
- Avilés acknowledges the suggestion for registration and notes its potential applicability to various issues.
Alexa Avilés
2:09:48
Yeah.
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No.
2:09:48
It definitely helps.
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I think I think the struggle is capacity and ensuring that we're arming everyone with sufficient capacity to be able to provide.
Hildalyn Colon
2:10:00
But I think I will tell you, and this is capacity can be divided.
2:10:04
I think that part of the process that it was lacking here in this issue is that there are some cases that could be seen by nonprofits instead of like the Catholic immigrations in the world.
2:10:14
I think we have to determine who need a representation or who is not.
2:10:18
And I think right now part of the biggest challenge right now that we are foreseeing is that everybody's doing their immigration case on prose base because nobody can represent you asylum cases take at least ten years.
2:10:30
So it's rarely who's gonna be with you for so long.
2:10:34
That is part of the process.
Alexa Avilés
2:10:35
Yeah.
2:10:36
Got it.
2:10:37
Thank you.
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And thank you around the suggestion of registration.
2:10:40
I think this goes to like so many different issues.
2:10:44
Appreciate the testimony.
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Thank you.
2:10:46
Jorge.