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MOIA keeps FY26 baseline; plans new legal support centers, consolidates asylum assistance; council presses on funding specifics and capacity
Summary
Commissioner Manuel Castro told Council that MOIA’s FY26 executive budget is about $29.6 million, preserves baseline funding and includes a new MOIA legal support centers initiative and other one‑time additions; council members pressed for vendor lists, how the new centers will be staffed, and questioned the impacts of federal funding cuts.
The Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs told the City Council that its FY26 executive budget is approximately $29.6 million and said the office will preserve baseline programs while launching a new model of neighborhood legal support centers.
Commissioner Manuel Castro said MOIA will use executive plan funds to establish 25 MOIA immigration legal support centers in immigrant‑dense neighborhoods and extend existing legal providers’ contracts into a coordinated centers model. He described the centers as a consolidation and expansion of previous initiatives such as Action NYC and the asylum support programs but stressed the new model will place services…
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