🔴 LIVE: The Committee on Immigration's Preliminary Budget Hearing

New York City Council · March 25, 2026

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Opening and hearing purpose

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Councilmember Elsie Encarnacion (chair of the Committee on Immigration) opened the hearing to review the FY2027 preliminary budget and to examine how the mayors plan prioritizes immigrant services, noting the citys large foreign-born population and framing the session around accountability and MOIAs budget and staffing.

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A New York City Council Committee on Immigration hearing reviewed the mayor's FY2027 preliminary budget for immigrant services, focusing on staffing at the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA), recent baseline funding for legal services and rapid response, language access, and requests from advocates for sustained, multiyear funding across legal, education and worker-support programs.

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