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Council Member Alexa Avilés introduces legislation on immigrant rights and protection
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Council Member Alexa Avilés introduces two pieces of legislation: Resolution 859 condemning the Lincoln Riley Act, and Introduction 1268 requiring the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs to develop signage informing immigrants of their rights. She emphasizes the importance of protecting immigrant communities and ensuring they are informed of their constitutional and legal protections.
- Resolution 859 condemns the Lincoln Riley Act, which allows for detention of undocumented immigrants based on suspicion
- Introduction 1268 requires city agencies to post signage informing immigrants of their rights
- Avilés urges fellow council members to support these measures to protect immigrant communities and restore trust in local government
Alexa Avilés
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Thank you, majority leader.
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I wanna bring to your attention two important pieces of legislation I'm introducing today along with council member Kavang.
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The first is resolution eight fifty nine condemning the passage of the Lincoln Riley Act.
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While we mourn the tragic loss of life of a young woman, framing her death as anything other than yet another example of violence against women in our culture is a grave mistake that undermines any public safety goal.
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For those of you who may not know, the Lincoln Riley act allows undocumented immigrants to be detained based merely on suspicion, marking the elimination of due process.
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We have already seen the deleterious effects of this legislation in an example after example within only a few short weeks.
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The Lake and Riley Act makes our communities less safe allowing for rampant and extremely harmful racial profiling, puts immigrant victims of crime at risk resulting in deportation for individuals who may participate in crimes through no choice of their own, leaving their exploiters unharmed and leaves immigrant children and those born in The US to immigrant parents incredibly vulnerable.
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I also wanna bring to your attention intro twelve sixty eight, which will require the mayor's office of immigrant affairs to develop signage to be posted at city agencies where a direct or emergency services are delivered notifying immigrants of their constitutional and legal protections.
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While our nonprofit providers are strapped providing workshop after workshop informing our immigrant communities of their rights, the city must come up with a way to more consistently deliver this message not only to those impacted but to each city agency across all levels of staffing.
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New York City must step up at this critical moment.
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We must restore trust between our local government and immigrant communities.
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I urge you all to stand with me in condemning the Lincoln Riley Act and in standing together to protect our communities and ensure all are informed of their constitutional and legal protections in the face of rising authoritarianism.
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Thank you.