NY Immigration Coalition Pushes for Legal Counsel for Immigrants

The New York Immigration Coalition rallied at the Capitol on Tuesday February 11 to demand $165 million for legal services funding to provide legal representation to immigrants facing deportation, as well as passage of the Access to Representation Act the Bolstering Underrepresented Immigrant Legal Defense Act (Build). The Access to Representation Act would make New York the first state to guarantee that immigrants facing deportation had the right to legal counsel. We hear first from Assemblymember Harvey Epstein, a former legal aid attorney; Maria Caba of Churches United for Fair Housing; Cesenciana Morales of Mixteca, which provides services to the Mexican and Latino communities in Brooklyn; and Assemblymember Emily Gallagher.