{"id":131,"date":"2022-06-09T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/?p=131"},"modified":"2022-07-05T18:54:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T18:54:45","slug":"131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/2022\/06\/09\/131\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/politicsny.com\/2022\/06\/09\/immigrant-advocates-council-members-demand-25m-in-budget-for-non-citizens\/\" target=\"_blank\">Council Members Call for $25M for &#8216;Our City, Our Vote&#8217; Initiative<\/a>, <em>Politics<\/em>NY<\/p>\n<p>As city-budget negotiations are rumored to be wrapping up in the coming days, a coalition of City Council members and immigrant advocates rallied on the steps of City Hall calling on Mayor Eric Adams to put $25 million in funding into implementing a law that grants non-citizens the right to vote. At the rally organized by the New York Immigration Coalition, Hanif was joined by her council colleagues Sandy Nurse (D \u2013 Brooklyn), Alexa Aviles (D \u2013 Brooklyn), Sandra Ung (D \u2013 Queens), Shaun Abreu (D \u2013 Manhattan) and Carmen De La Rosa (D \u2013 Manhattan). Also in attendance were immigrant advocacy organizations including African Communities Together, South Asian Council for Social Services and Masa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/politicsny.com\/2022\/06\/09\/immigrant-advocates-council-members-demand-25m-in-budget-for-non-citizens\/\" target=\"_blank\">Council Members Call for $25M for &#8216;Our City, Our Vote&#8217; Initiative<\/a>, <em>Politics<\/em>NY<\/p>\n<p>As city-budget negotiations are rumored to be wrapping up in the coming days, a coalition of City Council members and immigrant advocates rallied on the steps of City Hall calling on Mayor Eric Adams to put $25 million in funding into implementing a law that grants non-citizens the right to vote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/2022\/06\/09\/131\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}