Menin discusses funding for immigrant children's legal services
Menin addresses the expiration of federal funding for unaccompanied minor legal aid, praises Governor Hochul's $7 million state commitment, and highlights the Council's $82 million budget allocation for immigration legal services.
The administration is also abandoning our most vulnerable immigrants, our children, having let federal funding for legal aid expire at the end of July.
But New York is not sitting idly by.
Yesterday, Governor Hochul announced that the state will provide more than $7 million to legal aid services supporting unaccompanied minors, and I applaud her for the action she's taking.
And I also want to mention the funding, approximately $82 million of funding the city council pushed for and we received in the budget for legal immigration services.
And that is something that we will absolutely continue to fund moving forward.
Every person has a right to representation, including and particularly a scared child without their parents.
It's simply unconscionable to think otherwise.
The governor's commitment, as I mentioned, also boasters his council's funding that supports various legal agencies that work with immigrants.