{"id":221,"date":"2023-05-10T19:42:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T19:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=221"},"modified":"2023-06-08T19:45:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T19:45:02","slug":"city-pols-seek-70-million-to-help-migrants-obtain-asylum-status-working-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/05\/10\/city-pols-seek-70-million-to-help-migrants-obtain-asylum-status-working-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"City pols seek $70 million to help migrants obtain asylum status, working papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/10\/city-pols-seek-70-million-to-help-migrants-obtain-asylum-status-working-papers\/\">New York Post<\/a> &#8211; \u201cWe also believe it is critical \u2013 not only for those seeking asylum, but also for the City\u2019s long-term fiscal stability \u2013 to significantly ramp up outreach and legal immigration services to help asylum seekers navigate the paperwork that will enable them to live, work, and contribute to our city,\u201d wrote City Comptroller Brad Lander and Councilwoman Shahana Hanif in a letter to Adams on May 9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a dedicated all-hands outreach effort and an investment of $70 million for legal services, the City can significantly reduce the shelter length of stay, redeploy existing shelter space for people newly in need or newly arrived, reduce the number of people otherwise in the shelter system, and save significantly on the costs of operating shelters,\u201d the pair added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The letter also comes before the anticipated end of the controversial federal immigration policy,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/09\/as-title-42-end-nears-eric-adams-hasnt-learned-much-from-migrant-crisis-sinking-his-mayoralty\/\">Title 42<\/a>, which could further overburden the Big Apple\u2019s immigration system [<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/10\/city-pols-seek-70-million-to-help-migrants-obtain-asylum-status-working-papers\/\">Read More<\/a>].\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/10\/city-pols-seek-70-million-to-help-migrants-obtain-asylum-status-working-papers\/\">New York Post<\/a> &#8211; \u201cWe also believe it is critical \u2013 not only for those seeking asylum, but also for the City\u2019s long-term fiscal stability \u2013 to significantly ramp up outreach and legal immigration services to help asylum seekers navigate the paperwork that will enable them to live, work, and contribute to our city,\u201d wrote City Comptroller Brad Lander and Councilwoman Shahana Hanif in a letter to Adams on May 9.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/05\/10\/city-pols-seek-70-million-to-help-migrants-obtain-asylum-status-working-papers\/\">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-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","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=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}