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City Limits: How NYC’s Latest Budget Impacts Immigrant Communities

City Limits: How NYC's Latest Budget Impacts Immigrant Communities

  • July 9, 2025
  • 11:44 pm

As our immigrant communities continue to face unprecedented attacks from the current federal administration, our city needs a budget that reflects the urgent needs of this dire moment. The proposed spending plan for the next fiscal year includes $74.7 million for immigration legl services - a funding lifeline for our work with immigrant New Yorkers.

Of the programs in this category, legal services for low-income immigrants received a more than 600% budget increase from $4.4 million to $33.3 million this year. The budget also increased funding for the Rapid Response Legal Collaborative (RRLC), a state-supported program that supports people through its Office for New Americans.

"There was increased investment in Rapid Response work, reflecting what we are seeing on the ground: increased detentions and deportations of individuals and families," said Jodi Ziesemer, co-director of the immigrant protection unit at New York Legal Assistance Group, one of three legal service providers that are part of RRLC.

"Violating due process norms, this increased immigration enforcement includes people who have U.S. citizen family, may be eligible for immigration relief and who deserve an opportunity to be heard."

Read the full story in City Limits, originally published on July 9, 2025.

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