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Communication with immigrant communities about healthcare access
3:59:30
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55 sec
Council Member Alexa Avilés seeks clarification about MOIA's communication efforts with immigrant communities regarding healthcare access. Commissioner Manuel Castro explains the agency's approach to reassuring immigrants about continued access to city services.
- Castro clarifies that MOIA, along with other city agencies, wrote a letter emphasizing their commitment to providing care to immigrant communities regardless of status.
- The commissioner reveals that MOIA has not made public or private statements specifically about the harm of the reconciliation bill.
- Castro mentions that an op-ed was published with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene emphasizing the importance of healthcare programs for immigrant communities.
Alexa Avilés
3:59:30
I'm sorry.
3:59:32
Did you say you wrote a letter to immigrant community members about the harms they're experiencing?
Manuel Castro
3:59:38
No.
3:59:38
We wrote a letter emphasizing our commitment to their care and emphasizing that they can continue to access city services regardless of their status.
Alexa Avilés
3:59:49
Got it.
3:59:50
And then in terms of If you haven't made any public statements, have you made private statements our state partners about the harm of this?
4:00:01
Have you made any statements to our federal part who's left as federal partners about the harm of this?
Manuel Castro
4:00:09
We have not.
4:00:10
That is up to our intergovernmental affairs office, although we did put out with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene an op ed emphasizing the importance of health care programs to our immigrant communities.