{"id":825,"date":"2011-11-22T19:43:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T19:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=825"},"modified":"2016-12-12T19:43:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T19:43:48","slug":"statement-by-speaker-christine-c-quinn-and-council-members-daniel-dromm-and-melissa-mark-viverito-on-mayors-signing-of-intro-656-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2011\/11\/22\/825\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Speaker Christine C. Quinn and Council Members Daniel Dromm and Melissa Mark-Viverito on Mayor&#8217;s Signing of Intro 656 into Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToday is a truly historic day for our city and for immigrant communities in New York. We are sending a strong and unified message that this city will no longer allow innocent immigrants who pose no threat to be unfairly detained and deported due to an antiquated immigration system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImmigrants for centuries have made significant contributions to our communities and have thrived and continue to give back to our great country. We are confident that this will serve as a national model for other states and cities to consider. I want to thank my colleagues, advocates and the Mayor for his support for this legislation as we worked to find a solution that would protect both public safety and immigrants in our City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToday is a truly historic day for our city and for immigrant communities in New York. We are sending a strong and unified message that this city will no longer allow innocent immigrants who pose no threat to be unfairly detained and deported due to an antiquated immigration system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImmigrants for centuries have made significant contributions to our communities and have thrived and continue to give back to our great country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2011\/11\/22\/825\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}