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NYC council hearing presses MOIA on tiny headcount and urges a stand-alone immigrant agency
Summary
At a Council hearing on the FY2027 preliminary budget, Councilmember Elsie Encarnacion and immigrant advocates challenged the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs's small direct headcount in the preliminary plan and urged baselining staff and creating a dedicated city agency to coordinate immigrant services.
Councilmember Elsie Encarnacion opened the Committee on Immigration's FY2027 preliminary budget hearing by saying the session would examine how the mayor's plan prioritizes immigrant services and whether the administration is resourced to deliver them. "How can we expect an office to meet our immigrant communities' growing needs when it lacks sufficient centralized personnel to do the job?" she asked.
Faiza Ali, the newly appointed commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA), testified that MOIA oversees legal services, a legal-support hotline, a Rapid Response Legal Collaborative and language-access work while noting the preliminary MOIA plan shows only about $782,000 in direct MOIA lines to fund five staff positions. "New York City remains committed to…
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