News 12 – Mayor Eric Adams has tightened rules to limit adult migrants to 30 days in city-run facilities, but now there is a proposal to change that.

Council Member Shahana Hanif is introducing a new bill that would prohibit the city or mayor from imposing restrictions on the length of a shelter stay. 

Hanif tells News 12, “We are hearing from asylum seekers across the city who have received these notices that this is creating further confusion for them, further destabilizing them.”

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Gothamist – Asylum-seekers and others staying in New York City’s homeless shelters would face no time limits on their stays under a City Council bill being introduced on Thursday.

The proposal from Councilmember Shahana Hanif, who chairs the Council’s immigration committee, takes aim at Mayor Eric Adams’ recent imposition of shelter stay limits for single adult migrants.

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Daily News – Lewis-Martin’s comments came after months of criticism from the mayor against his fellow Democrat President Biden, saying the White House needs to do more to help the city handle an influx of tens of thousands of migrants.

“When you’ve got the top people in charge saying ‘close the borders,’ it shows the xenophobia that is part of this administration,” Councilwoman Shahana Hanif, a Brooklyn Democrat who heads the Council’s Committee on Immigration, told the Daily News.

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Gothamist – Before last Friday’s gathering, Mohammad Abul Khair, 49, and Mohammed Moinuddin, 51, blocked the entrance to Chester Avenue from Louisa Street and Church Avenue. They laid prayer mats on the street as crowds of local worshippers arrived to pray.

“This Muslim community, we’ve really embraced taking to the streets for our faith and to keep our neighbors safe,” said Councilmember Shahana Hanif, who represents the Kensington neighborhood.

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Bloomberg – The city’s legal services gap was clear in September 2022 at a city council hearing. At that point, the Adams administration didn’t have clear answers about who would be running legal services or how they would be administered, said City Council Member Shahana Hanif, who heads the council’s immigration committee.

“It was evident from that first hearing just how much of a necessity it would be to invest in legal services,” Hanif said.

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BK Reader – The Brooklyn College members present at the rally were joined by numerous local elected officials, including Brooklyn Council Member Shahana Hanif. As a former student, Hanif acknowledged the importance of the Women’s Center, and says that the cuts would be disastrous for students that utilize its services.

“When I was a student at Brooklyn College, the Women’s Center was my home.

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Gothamist – Nonetheless, the mistakes prompted laughs in other corners of city government as well as criticisms from immigrant rights advocates who said the episode points to a bigger problem in language access for immigrant communities.

“This is hilarious,” said Councilmember Shahana Hanif. “Our communities don’t feel comfortable utilizing government resources, and one of those reasons is because official government documents and important notices, even if they’re translated, the quality of translation is incomprehensible.”

Last year, Hanif 

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Forward – New York City Councilmember Shahana Hanif got blasted this spring for voting against a resolution to create an annual day to “end Jew-hatred.” Some called the progressive freshman from Brooklyn antisemitic. She at the time explained that she could not get on board with the initiative because it was spearheaded by “right-wing organizations” supported by an activist who has claimed that Palestinians don’t exist. 

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City + State – In 1979, the New York State Supreme Court ruled in Callahan v. Carey that New York City had a legal mandate to provide shelter under Article XVII of the state’s constitution. Brought as a class action lawsuit on behalf of thousands of unhoused individuals, this landmark ruling established that homeless New Yorkers have a fundamental right to a bed and basic standards within the shelter system. 

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Muslim Girl – Not long ago I joined hundreds of New Yorkers to celebrate O’Shae Sibley’s life. We surrounded the Brooklyn Mobil Gas Station at the intersection of Coney Island Avenue and Avenue P, where O’Shae Sibley’s murder occurred when he was stabbed to death. With trans leader and activist Queen Jean on the megaphone, we repeated O’Shae Sibley’s name over and over. 

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