{"id":3399,"date":"2024-03-06T06:36:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usbnews24.com\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2024-03-06T06:36:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:36:01","slug":"nyc-council-immigration-committee-demands-mayor-adams-spend-more-on-migrant-legal-services-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/?p=3399","title":{"rendered":"NYC Council Immigration Committee demands Mayor Adams spend more on migrant legal services, education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">\u00a0New York City Councilwoman Alexa Aviles demanded at a budget hearing Tuesday that Mayor Eric Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2024\/03\/03\/nyc-council-projects-3-3b-more-in-tax-revenue-than-adams-team-paving-way-for-brutal-budget-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">restore cuts<\/a>\u00a0to immigrant legal and language services, and criticized his administration for relying too heavily on \u2014 and paying too much for \u2014 for-profit contracts in the city\u2019s response to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/programs\/taking-action-address-asylum-seeker-crisis-new-york#:~:text=Since%20asylum%20seekers%20first%20began,to%20address%20this%20urgent%20crisis.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">asylum seeker crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\"><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/district-38\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Aviles<\/a>, who heads the Council\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/committees\/immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Immigration Committee<\/a>, said the administration must put $150 million to \u201cenhanced\u201d immigrant legal services and add an additional $10 million to \u201cadequately fund\u201d adult education for immigrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-read-break\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">\u201cThis defunding of literacy and legal services undermines opportunities that we seek to create in our civil society, and it just doesn\u2019t make sense. It must be addressed immediately,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is about sustainability of services for immigrant New Yorkers \u2014 40% of the city\u2019s population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">The hearing \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2024\/03\/04\/mayor-adams-budget-boss-leaves-door-open-to-reversing-more-cuts-but-wont-make-any-promises\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">one of several<\/a>\u00a0the Council will hold as part of vetting the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/office-of-the-mayor\/news\/040-24\/mayor-adams-releases-preliminary-budget-fiscal-year-2025#\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">mayor\u2019s preliminary budget<\/a>\u00a0and negotiating a final spending plan \u2014 came one day after the Council released a new revenue projection forecasting $3.3 billion more in tax receipts than a projection by Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 budget director, Jacques Jiha,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2024\/03\/03\/nyc-council-projects-3-3b-more-in-tax-revenue-than-adams-team-paving-way-for-brutal-budget-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">a development first reported by the New York Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0New York City Councilwoman Alexa Aviles demanded at a budget hearing Tuesday that Mayor Eric Adams restore cuts\u00a0to immigrant legal and language services, and criticized his administration for relying too heavily on \u2014 and paying too much for \u2014 for-profit contracts in the city\u2019s response to the\u00a0asylum seeker crisis. Aviles, who heads the Council\u2019s\u00a0Immigration Committee, said the administration must put $150 million to \u201cenhanced\u201d immigrant legal services and add an additional $10 million to \u201cadequately fund\u201d adult education for immigrants. \u201cThis defunding of literacy and legal services undermines opportunities that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}