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MOIA commissioner Faiza Ali outlines staffing, hotlines and legal‑service investments and backs signage and contract limits
Summary
New MOIA commissioner Faiza Ali told the City Council Committee on Immigration that her office is rebuilding capacity, expanding legal support centers and hotlines, and will work with the council on Intro 55 (Know Your Rights signage) and Intro 261 (limits on contracts with immigration‑enforcement entities). Audits under Executive Order 13 are due in early May.
Faiza Ali, the newly appointed commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, told the New York City Council Committee on Immigration that her office is focused on turning sanctuary‑city values into enforceable practice and bolstering services for immigrant New Yorkers.
In testimony and a lengthy question‑and‑answer session, Ali described a MOIA that is rebuilding capacity after prior years of constrained authority. She said MOIA has a network of 35 community‑rooted immigration legal support centers created with roughly $18,000,000 in investments over three years and that those centers have conducted about 7,500 comprehensive legal screenings since the program’s July 2025 launch. Ali also said MOIA’s immigration hotline received more than 26,000 calls in calendar 2025 and later provided a July 2025–February 2026 figure of 13,912 calls with 13,357 answered.
"We will also work alongside senior administration leadership on the interagency response…
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