{"id":64763,"date":"2025-12-08T21:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/64763\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T21:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:33:09","slug":"nyc-council-members-ramp-up-immigrant-protections-as-ice-raids-continue-throughout-the-city-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/64763\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Council members ramp up immigrant protections as ICE raids continue throughout the city"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Advocates rallied at City Hall for more protections for undocumented New Yorkers. <\/p>\n

Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n

Dozens of advocates, including multiple NYC Council members, rallied at City Hall on Monday, demanding more legislative support for undocumented immigrant New Yorkers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Led by Brooklyn Council Member Alexa Avil\u00e9s, chair of the council\u2019s Immigration Committee, the rally focused on getting four bills passed to protect the city\u2019s immigrant community. At the forefront of the package is Intro. 214<\/a>, which would hold city agencies, including the NYPD, accountable under existing laws, allowing immigrants to sue when \u201ctheir rights have been violated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fellow Brooklyn Council Member Shahana Hanif, who is sponsoring the legislation, charged that city agencies have \u201crepeatedly\u201d broken sanctuary city laws.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cCity agencies unlawfully share information with federal immigration authorities, with no training, accountability, or enforcement mechanism when our laws are violated,\u201d Hanif said. \u201cMy bill, the NYC Trust Act, would hold the NYPD, Department of Corrections (DOP), and DOP accountable to the laws already on our books by creating a private right of action\u2013empowering those whose rights have been violated to bring suit and seek justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"manDozens of advocates, including multiple NYC Council members, rallied at City Hall on Monday demanding more legislative support for undocumented New Yorkers.\u00a0Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n

Complementing this bill is Council Member Tiffany Caban\u2019s Intro. 1412, which would prohibit federal agencies<\/a> conducting immigration enforcement from setting up shop on Correction Department property. This would counter an executive order Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 administration issued in April that sought to re-establish ICE\u2019s Rikers Island office<\/a>; the Council successfully sued the mayor to stop the order from being enforced<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFederal agencies that don\u2019t normally do immigration enforcement are being used to terrorize our communities, beating up seniors, separating families, shackling pregnant mothers, and separating six-year olds from their father,\u201d Caban explained. \u201cOur bill clarifies New York\u2019s sanctuary laws, stops ICE from setting up in our jails, and ensures every New Yorker is protected, no matter which agency is weaponized against us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two additional bills focused on immigrant protections include Intro. 268, which would require the city to display signage informing people of their rights when engaging with federal authorities; and Intro. 1272, which would prohibit employers from checking the employment authorization status of an applicant who has not been offered employment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"peopleNYC Council members introduced four bills to support immigrants in NYC.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n

Council members at the rally, which was held in advance of a hearing to review the list of bills, spoke about NYC\u2019s history as an immigrant city. Immigrant populations, they said, make up nearly 40% of the city\u2019s current population, and added that they have been responsible for innumerable cultural and economic contributions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been nearly a year since Donald Trump took office and began waging war on our immigrant communities,\u201d Avil\u00e9s\u00a0said. \u201cWe have seen New Yorkers violently kidnapped in the hundreds at regular court proceedings, we have seen people ripped from their homes, outside schools, on the streets, at work, and beyond, Families have been torn apart. Students and children have disappeared from their classrooms. Today, we are reaffirming the laws that have worked to protect our city.\u201d<\/p>\n

amNewYork reached out to the Mayor\u2019s Office of Immigrant Affairs for their comments on the proposed legislation. A City Hall spokesperson explained that the three affected agencies \u2014 NYPD, DOC and DOP \u2014 are in discussion on the implications of the bills and how they will operate with existing laws. For these reasons, all three agencies submitted written testimony for today\u2019s hearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOur team is proud of what we have accomplished over the past four years: educating more than 40,000 immigrant New Yorkers about their rights, assisting 43,000 immigrant New Yorkers with their immigration cases, responding to nearly 160,000 calls through our immigration legal hotline, and providing English language classes to 18,000 immigrant New Yorkers \u2014 all while helping to care for a total of over 240,000 migrants and asylum seekers, as well as millions of other longtime immigrant New Yorkers who call our city home,\u201d the spokesperson explained.<\/p>\n

Council members at the rally urged their colleagues to pass all four bills before the city legislature ends its current session this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Advocates rallied at City Hall for more protections for undocumented New Yorkers. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell Dozens of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33847,302,33848,2301,33849,9,56,63,65,64,87,5328,594],"class_list":["post-64763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-alexa-alives","tag-city-hall","tag-ice-in-nyc","tag-immigration","tag-mayors-office-of-immigrant-affairs","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-politics","tag-shahana-hanif","tag-tiffany-cabu00e1n"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}