Chair Avilés Questions Specific Case Coverage and Deportation Defense
Chair Alexa Avilés asks about the specific types of cases covered by the legal services funding, highlighting the $14.6 million directed to deportation defense.
And so what specific immigration cases or clients is the $33 million anticipated to cover.
Sorry, I didn't cut that.
You said the $33 million?
Yes.
We're we're making significant in investment in deportation defense.
Um Moya is directing $14.6 million of that to go to the RLC to our legal support centers and to support uh you know New Yorkers who are facing deportation cases.
I think that level of investment really in in shows the urgency, and my colleague just passed a note that we do want to uplift that there is addition, there is additional resources that will be going to our habeas project, and we can provide details on the breakdown of that particular funding.