NYC City Council just passed a budget with major cuts to education and critical programs for low-income immigrant New Yorkers. Help us fill the gap.

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John,

The New York City Council just passed an austerity budget—one that flies in the face of the demands of the people they represent and leaves immigrant and Black New Yorkers behind. We won’t forget. And we won’t stop organizing.

City Hall made the $1B cut to the NYPD budget by deploying a few accounting tricks and cost-shifting measures, including moving the cost of school “safety officers” into the education system, while slashing the Department of Education’s budget and other key programs that provide crucial services to low-income immigrant New Yorkers—many of whom are the frontline workers struggling to make ends meet during COVID-19 ([link removed]') after being excluded from four stimulus packages.
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These programs include NYIC’s Key to the City and Hate Crimes initiatives—initiatives that provide our communities with the essential information they need to navigate our immigration legal system, rent moratorium laws, DACA policy updates, and public charge rules, as well as ways to find food pantries, access healthcare and report hate crimes safely, and so much more. When immigrant New Yorkers needed support from our elected officials the most, they turned their backs on us.

The modern U.S. immigration, naturalization, refugee, and asylum systems are being torn apart by the Trump administration, and now the pandemic is being used to justify an accelerated destruction of all these systems. Until now, New York City was a xxxxxx against the inhumanity of our federal system—by providing supportive services and information to immigrant communities. Today, City Council, led by Council Member Carlos Menchaca, defunded the NYIC instead of the NYPD, and New York City’s immigrant communities will pay the price.

We were able to successfully advocate for legal services and adult literacy education funding—but how can we effectively do our jobs if we aren’t able to reach every community throughout all the boroughs? How will those most marginalized access the information and resources they need in the languages they understand and from the people they trust?

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Right now, we don’t have answers to these questions, but we can assure you that we won’t stop fighting to protect and empower all our communities today and always.

Thank you for standing with us,

Steve Choi,
Executive Director
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