Gothamist – City councilmembers have complained they have been kept out of the loop on the initiative, the subject of a Council Committees on Immigration and General Welfare oversight hearing, at 1 p.m. in City Hall.

Councilmember Shahana Hanif, Immigration Committee chair, said the only details she’s heard have come from media coverage, and piecemeal conversations with city officials while touring the city’s temporary respite centers for migrants.

“It’s been a very opaque process,” Hanif said. “On one hand, even if they don’t tell us under oath, the public is also witnessing the opaqueness and the lack of transparency that the administration has had around this conversation.”

She added: “We deserve transparency from our bureaucracy.” [Read More]