{"id":1423,"date":"2026-07-22T07:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2026-07-22T19:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:15:33","slug":"op-ed-chancellor-kamar-samuels-stood-up-for-migrant-children-now-he-should-stand-up-for-procurement-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/2026\/07\/22\/op-ed-chancellor-kamar-samuels-stood-up-for-migrant-children-now-he-should-stand-up-for-procurement-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: Chancellor Kamar Samuels stood up for migrant children. Now he should stand up for procurement reform."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By City Council Member Gale A. Brewer<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kamar Samuels and I were among the attendees of a town hall in the gym of PS 191 on September 6, 2023, when then-Mayor Eric Adams said that the migrant surge \u201cwill destroy New York City.\u201d\u00a0LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/opinion\/chancellor-kamar-samuels-migrant-children-stand-procurement-reform\/\">Chancellor Kamar Samuels stood up for migrant children. Now he should stand up for procurement reform.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By City Council Member Gale A. Brewer<\/p>\n<p>Kamar Samuels and I were among the attendees of a town hall in the gym of PS 191 on September 6, 2023, when then-Mayor Eric Adams said that the migrant surge \u201cwill destroy New York City.\u201d\u00a0LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/opinion\/chancellor-kamar-samuels-migrant-children-stand-procurement-reform\/\">Chancellor Kamar Samuels stood up for migrant children. Now he should stand up for procurement reform.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/2026\/07\/22\/op-ed-chancellor-kamar-samuels-stood-up-for-migrant-children-now-he-should-stand-up-for-procurement-reform\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oped","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}