We rallied to demand the NYC Council and Mayor Adams prioritize immigrant NYers in our budget!
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John,
While our Mayor is busy making racist and out of touch comments ([link removed]) , our newest families are struggling to keep a roof over their heads and to ensure their children have access to the same educational opportunities as all other New York children.
That is why elected officials, members, and allies joined us to lobby and rally on the City Hall Steps to call for a New York City FY25 budget and legislation that prioritizes the needs of immigrant New Yorkers!
We’re asking for fundamental support that all citizens of New York deserve—our demands are simple:
* Preserving the Right to Shelter for all New Yorkers by passing the Stop Shelter Evictions Act (Intro 210)
* Ending City support for detention, deportation, and mass incarceration
+ $109 million for legal services
+ redirecting NYPD funding
* Ensuring economic power and good jobs
+ $21.8 million for NYC Department of Youth and Community Development Adult Literacy programs and
+ $9 million in adult literacy discretionary funding
+ $25 million for Promise NYC childcare
+ Pass the People's Banking Act Package
* Building political power and guaranteed civil rights
+ $5 million to establish the NYC Community Interpreter Bank and language access worker cooperatives
* Securing access to a quality education
+ $300,000 to support English Language Learner programs at transfer schools
+ $500,000 to support schools with substantial newly arrived populations
+ $4 million for the Immigrant Family Communication and Outreach Initiative
* Creating healthy communities
+ $4 million for Access Health
+ expanding CityFHEPS eligibility to New Yorkers regardless of immigration status
Read Our NYC Priorities! ([link removed])
New York is a city of immigrants, which has been built and rebuilt by our communities for centuries. When we invest in newcomers and long-term immigrant New Yorkers, our City’s economy and culture reap the long term benefits.
Access to a quality education, housing, language services and healthcare, rather than austerity and marginalization, is what all New Yorkers need to get on the road to self-sufficiency. Join us in our fight as we welcome our newest neighbors to our great city ([link removed]) !
In Power,
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Murad Awawdeh
President and CEO
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