Policy Perspectives: Navigating the New Immigration Policy Landscape

Hosted by NYC Council Member Erik Bottcher

In Conversation With

New York Immigration Coalition President & CEO Murad Awawdeh

At 5pm on Thursday, January 15

Online via Zoom

Conversations and Q&As with experts who are on the front lines, shaping the future of NYC: That’s the premise of Policy Perspectives, NYC Council Member Erik Bottcher’s long-running public forum curated with an eye toward pressing matters of the moment.

And our current moment has been a year in the making. Observes Bottcher, of Trump-orchestrated ICE activities, “Advocates and community leaders have warned that these reckless, militarized, showboat operations do not make our communities safer. They do the opposite…This is not law enforcement. It is performative cruelty designed for political theater, with devastating human consequences.”

In an email sent to subscribers following January 7’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis mother by an ICE agent, Bottcher wrote, “Our hearts go out to the loved ones of Renee Nicole Good, and to the countless people who have been taken by ICE in raids and street encounters, separated from their families without warning, denied basic due process, held in detention far from their loved ones, or deported without a meaningful chance to defend their rights.”

Fitting, then, that January 15’s edition of Policy Perspectives “will focus on navigating the new immigration policy landscape with Murad Awawdeh, President and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition. NYIC has been a clear and fearless voice in confronting harmful federal policies and organizing to defend our neighbors when they are under attack”

Click here to register for this free event. Upon successful registration, you will receive a personalized Zoom link and the opportunity to submit questions in advance.

—Compiled by Scott Stiffler

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