{"id":135,"date":"2022-09-30T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=135"},"modified":"2022-10-06T20:48:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T20:48:13","slug":"the-biggest-questions-addressed-at-the-city-council-hearing-on-asylum-seekers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2022\/09\/30\/the-biggest-questions-addressed-at-the-city-council-hearing-on-asylum-seekers\/","title":{"rendered":"The biggest questions addressed at the City Council hearing on asylum-seekers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/policy\/2022\/09\/biggest-questions-addressed-city-council-hearing-asylum-seekers\/377928\/\">City + State<\/a> &#8211; Several council members, including Immigration Committee Chair Shahana Hanif, pushed back on the city\u2019s suggestion that asylum-seekers don\u2019t qualify given the extent of the crisis impacting the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should be doing everything we can to provide asylum seekers decent conditions that meet bare minimum standards. The right to shelter is a right that applies to everyone in New York City,\u201d Hanif said. \u201cNo amount of legal gymnastics can justify what\u2019s happening.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/policy\/2022\/09\/biggest-questions-addressed-city-council-hearing-asylum-seekers\/377928\/\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/policy\/2022\/09\/biggest-questions-addressed-city-council-hearing-asylum-seekers\/377928\/\">City + State<\/a> &#8211; Several council members, including Immigration Committee Chair Shahana Hanif, pushed back on the city\u2019s suggestion that asylum-seekers don\u2019t qualify given the extent of the crisis impacting the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should be doing everything we can to provide asylum seekers decent conditions that meet bare minimum standards. The right to shelter is a right that applies to everyone in New York City,\u201d Hanif said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2022\/09\/30\/the-biggest-questions-addressed-at-the-city-council-hearing-on-asylum-seekers\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}