2026-09-25 - Civil Rights, Racial Equity, and Immigrant Advancement Committee

00:49GOOD MORNING.

00:49GOOD MORNING.

00:51MY NAME IS MINYARD.

00:53>> CULPEPER DISTRICT SEVEN CITY

00:55COUNCIL.

00:56WHERE SOMEONE HAS BEEN AT LARGE

01:00THIS MORNING BUT I'M.

01:02DISTRICT SEVEN CITY COUNCILOR.

01:03CHAIR OF THE PERSON.

01:05CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON CIVIL

01:07RIGHTS.

01:08RACIAL EQUITY AND IMMIGRANT

01:10ADVANCEMENT.

01:11TODAY IS SEPTEMBER.

01:14>> 25TH.

01:14AND THE EXACT TIME IS 1005.

01:18THIS HEARING IS BEING RECORDED.

01:19YEAH.

01:20>> IT'S ALSO BEING LIVE

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01:32RCN 82.

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01:36WRITTEN COMMENTS.

01:37MAY BE SENT.

01:38TO THE COMMITTEE EMAIL AND.

01:40SEEK OUT CIVIL

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01:43AND WILL BE MADE PART OF THE

01:45RECORD AND AVAILABLE.

01:47TO ALL COUNCILORS.

01:48PUBLIC TESTIMONY WILL.

01:50>> BE TAKEN.

01:50AT THE END OF THIS HEARING.

01:52INDIVIDUALS WILL BE CALLED ON

01:54IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY HAVE

01:55SIGNED UP.

01:56AND WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES TO

01:58TESTIFY IF YOU'RE INTERESTED.

02:00INTERESTED IN TESTIFYING IN

02:03PERSON, PLEASE.

02:04ADD YOUR.

02:04>> NAME.

02:05TO THE SIGN.

02:05>> UP SHEET.

02:06NEAR THE ENTRANCE OF THE

02:08CHAMBER.

02:09IF YOU'RE.

02:09LOOKING TO TESTIFY.

02:11VIRTUALLY, PLEASE.

02:12EMAIL OUR CENTRAL STAFF

02:13LIAISON.

02:14MEGAN KAVANAUGH AND.

02:16MEGAN [email protected].

02:19FOR THE LINK AND YOUR NAME WILL

02:21BE ADDED.

02:21>> TO THE LIST.

02:23TODAY'S HEARING IS ON DOCKET

02:24NUMBER 0299.

02:27ORDER FOR A HEARING TO CONFRONT

02:29DETERMINATION.

02:30OF FEDERALLY PROTECTED STATUS

02:31FOR.

02:32ASIAN IMMIGRANTS AND.

02:33EXAMINE THE CITY OF US RESPONSE

02:36TO PROTECT AFFECTED RESIDENTS.

02:39THIS MATTER WAS SPONSORED BY

02:41COUNCILORS MINYARD CULPEPER

02:44COUNCILOR JIM.

02:44HERE COUNCILOR RUTH THE.

02:47LOUIJEUNE IT WAS FAIR TO THE

02:49COMMITTEE.

02:53ON FEBRUARY.

02:54>> 4TH 2026.

02:54TODAY I AM JOINED BY MY

02:56COLLEAGUE COUNCILOR RUFUS.

02:58THE LEWIS JOHN.

03:00AND WILL.

03:02ACKNOWLEDGE THE LETTER FROM OUR

03:05PRESIDENT COUNCILOR GRAYDON.

03:07>> I'LL READ IT INTO THE.

03:08RECORD PER HER REQUEST.

03:10DEAR CHAIR CULPEPER, I REGRET

03:13THAT I.

03:14AM UNABLE.

03:15>> TO ATTEND THIS MORNING'S.

03:16HEARING AND DOCKET 0299 ORDER

03:19FOR A HEARING TO CONFRONT THE

03:21TERMINATION OF FEDERAL

03:23PROTECTED STATUS FOR HAITIAN.

03:24IMMIGRANTS AND EXAMINE THE CITY

03:26OF BOSTON'S RESPONSE TO PROTECT

03:28AFFECTED RESIDENTS, THE

03:30POSSIBLE TERMINATION.

03:31OF FEDERAL PROTECTIVE STATUS

03:33FOR.

03:34HAITIAN NATIONALS.

03:35POSES PROFOUND RISKS FOR

03:37FAMILIES ACROSS BOSTON.

03:39AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF A

03:40WELCOMING CITY WITH A LONG

03:43STANDING HAITIAN.

03:44COMMUNITY, I REMAIN COMMITTED.

03:46>> TO ENSURING THAT AFFECTED

03:47RESIDENTS RECEIVE THE SUPPORT,

03:49LEGAL PROTECTIONS AND

03:51COORDINATED SERVICES THEY

03:52DESERVE.

03:53WHILE I AM UNABLE TO ATTEND.

03:55TODAY'S HEARING.

03:56MEMBERS OF MY.

03:57TEAM WILL BE LISTENING INTO

04:00THIS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT

04:01DISCUSSION AND I PLAN TO REVIEW

04:04THE RECORD AND KINDLY ASK THAT

04:06YOU READ.

04:06THIS LETTER INTO THE RECORD.

04:08THANK YOU.

04:09ELIZABETH BROOME, PRESIDENT

04:11OF THE CITY COUNCIL.

04:17DOCKET NUMBER 0299.

04:21UM AND GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.

04:24I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES,

04:26MY COLLEAGUE.

04:28AND MY PANELISTS.

04:31ADVOCATES.

04:32>> COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND

04:34MEMBERS.

04:34OF THE PUBLIC WITH JOINING.

04:36>> US TODAY FOR THIS IMPORTANT

04:37FOLLOW UP HEARING.

04:39ON THE TERMINATION.

04:41OF TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS.

04:43FOR HAITIAN NATIONALS.

04:44AND THE CITY'S RESPONSE.

04:47WE HAD OUR.

04:47FIRST HEARING ON THIS ISSUE.

04:50ON APRIL 9TH.

04:51AT THAT TIME.

04:52HAITIAN TPS REMAINED PROTECTED.

04:54BY THE FEDERAL COURTS.

04:55THE LITIGATION WAS BEFORE THE

04:57SUPREME COURT AND.

04:58MUCH OF OUR DISCUSSION FOCUSED

05:01ON PREPAREDNESS.

05:02WHAT COULD HAPPEN IF THOSE.

05:04PROTECTIONS WERE TERMINATED,

05:06HOW BOSTON RESIDENTS.

05:07COULD BE AFFECTED.

05:08AND WHETHER THE CITY WAS.

05:10PREPARED TO RESPOND.

05:12UNFORTUNATELY, THE

05:14CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE CHANGED.

05:15DRAMATICALLY SINCE THEN.

05:17ON JUNE 25TH.

05:18THE SUPREME COURT.

05:19RULED AND THE LITIGATION.

05:21INVOLVING THE TERMINATION

05:23OF TPS FOR HAITI AND.

05:25SYRIA AND HAITIAN TPS.

05:27SEPARATE SUBSEQUENTLY.

05:29ENDED ON.

05:30JULY 27TH.

05:31>> WE ALSO HAVE A CLEARER

05:33PICTURE TODAY.

05:34OF THE SCALE.

05:36>> OF THE IMPACT IN BOSTON.

05:37THE ADMINISTRATION'S UPDATED

05:39AND.

05:40ANALYSIS ESTIMATES THAT

05:43APPROXIMATELY 5790.

05:45HAITIANS IN.

05:46BOSTON WERE PREVIOUSLY

05:48COVERED BY TPS, SIGNIFICANTLY

05:51MORE.

05:51THAN THE ESTIMATE WE DISCUSSED

05:53.

05:53AT OUR APRIL HEARING.

05:54THE ADMINISTRATION HAS ALSO

05:56IDENTIFIED APPROXIMATELY.

05:591800 CHILDREN AND MORE THAN

06:018300 OTHER ADULT FAMILY.

06:03AND HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS.

06:05WHO COULD BE AFFECTED BY THE

06:06DEPORTATION OF HAITIAN.

06:08NON-CITIZEN ADULTS.

06:10DEMONSTRATING THAT THE

06:11CONSEQUENCES EXTEND.

06:13>> FAR BEYOND INDIVIDUAL TPS

06:16HOLDERS.

06:17SO TODAY.

06:18>> I WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT

06:19HAS HAPPENED SINCE JULY 27TH.

06:21WHAT WE ARE SEEING ON THE

06:23GROUND AND WHETHER THE RESPONSE

06:24.

06:25MATCHES THE.

06:26SCALE OF THE NEED.

06:27WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS

06:28HAPPENING TO RESIDENTS WHO LOST

06:30THEIR WORK.

06:31AUTHORIZATION, WHETHER PEOPLE

06:33ARE FINDING ALTERNATIVE FORMS

06:36OF IMMIGRATION RELIEF, WHETHER

06:38OUR.

06:38LEGAL SERVICE.

06:39PROVIDERS HAVE SUFFICIENT

06:41CAPACITY.

06:42AND WHAT ADDITIONAL.

06:43RESOURCES THE CITY AND THIS

06:45COUNCIL CAN PROVIDE.

06:46AND FINALLY, WE NEED TO HEAR

06:49DIRECTLY.

06:49>> FROM THE ORGANIZATION.

06:51SERVING BOSTON'S.

06:52HAITIAN COMMUNITY.

06:54OUR SECOND PANEL INCLUDES

06:56REPRESENTATIVES FROM MIRA, THE

06:57INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE AND

07:00DEMOCRACY.

07:00>> IN HAITI AND THE IMMIGRANT.

07:02FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE.

07:04THESE ORGANIZATIONS.

07:05CAN HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT

07:07RESIDENTS ARE EXPERIENCING.

07:08ON THE GROUND.

07:10WHERE THE CITY'S RESPONSE IS

07:11WORKING.

07:12AND WHERE.

07:13>> ADDITIONAL SUPPORT IS

07:14NEEDED.

07:15WITH THAT, LET US GET STARTED

07:17AND I'D LIKE.

07:18TO.

07:19>> UM, ANNOUNCE THE ARRIVAL.

07:21OF ONE OF THE.

07:23CO-SPONSORS, COUNCILOR JULIAN

07:26MEJIA.

07:27I GIVE.

07:28>> EACH COUNCILOR SIX MINUTES

07:30FOR.

07:30>> THE OPENING STATEMENT AND

07:31THEN WE'LL TURN.

07:32TO OUR PANELISTS.

07:33OUR FIRST.

07:35SPEAKER.

07:37>> COUNCILOR BRUCE.

07:37THE LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR.

07:39>> YOU HAVE SIX MINUTES.

07:40GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.

07:41BOUCHER MOON MERCY PASCAGOULA

07:43UM, THIS IS A TOPIC AND AN

07:46ISSUE THAT MY OFFICE HAS BEEN

07:49WORKING ON ENDLESSLY DAY AND

07:51NIGHT AND I MEAN THAT LITERALLY

07:52AND FIGURATIVELY.

07:53I WAS TALKING TO BRIAN

07:55CONCANNON, THE HEAD OF THE

07:57INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE DEMOCRACY

07:58IN HAITI ABOUT HOW, YOU KNOW, I

08:00FELL YESTERDAY HAD A LOT

08:02OF ISSUES GOING ON AND AT THE

08:03SAME TIME I GOT A CALL FROM A

08:05CONSTITUENT WHO WAS BEING

08:07REJECTED FROM SERVICES AT A

08:09LEGAL SERVICES ORGANIZATION.

08:11I GOT ON THE PHONE IN THE

08:12MIDDLE OF EVERYTHING WITH UM

08:14THE HEAD OF THE IMMIGRATION

08:15CLINIC THERE TO MAKE SURE THAT

08:17THAT WOMAN COULD TURN AROUND

08:18AND RECEIVE SERVICES.

08:19WE ARE IN A DIRE DIRE STRAITS

08:22UM, SINCE THE UH SUPREME COURT

08:25DECISION CAME OUT IN LATE IN

08:27LATE JUNE, UH, PEOPLE'S

08:30IMMIGRATION STATUS HAS

08:31TERMINATED, WHICH HAS LED TO

08:32THEIR INABILITY TO DO THINGS

08:33LIKE PAY THEIR RENT AND PAY

08:36MORTGAGES.

08:37SO THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE

08:38DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS THAT

08:39HAVE WORKED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

08:40OUR OFFICE TO PUT ON FOOD

08:43PANTRIES.

08:43UM, OBVIOUSLY IFC WILL BE ON

08:45THE PANEL LATER.

08:46WE'VE DONE A NUMBER OF JOINT

08:47LEGAL CLINICS WITH THEM AND WE

08:49STILL KNOW THAT THERE ARE NOT

08:51ENOUGH ATTORNEYS.

08:52UH, WE KNOW THAT THE STATE'S

08:54MACY HOTLINE IN PARTNERSHIP

08:55WITH MIRA HAS A SIX MONTH

08:58BACKLOG AND WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO

09:00NEED ATTORNEYS YESTERDAY, UM,

09:02THANKS TO A WONDERFUL COALITION

09:04OF PEOPLE.

09:04UH, THANKS TO OUR FEARLESS

09:06CONGRESSWOMAN AYANNA PRESSLEY,

09:07WE GOT A BILL PASSED OUT OF THE

09:10HOUSE AND IT WAS A BIPARTISAN

09:12BILL TO EXTEND TPS.

09:14THAT SAME EFFORT IS BEING DONE

09:16IN THE SENATE TODAY AS PART

09:17OF A NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION

09:19ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHERE CITIES

09:21ARE CALLING MEMBERS OF THE

09:23SENATE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY

09:25SIGN ON AS CO-SPONSORS TO SB UH

09:28TO SENATE BILL 4814.

09:31THERE ARE ONLY THREE DEMOCRATIC

09:34SENATORS WHO HAVE NOT SIGNED ON

09:35TO THE BILL.

09:36SO LATER TODAY IF YOU WOULD

09:37LIKE TO JOIN US, WE WILL BE AT

09:39MIRROR MAKING PHONE CALLS TO

09:41THOSE SENATORS.

09:42UM, WE PASSED A RESOLUTION I

09:44BELIEVE A FEW WEEKS AGO AFTER

09:45IT WAS INITIALLY BLOCKED UH UH

09:49ALONGSIDE MYSELF AND

09:51CANCER COUNCIL PRESIDENT LUIZ

09:52BREADON CALLING A RESOLUTION TO

09:54STREAMLINE HOUSING ASSISTANCE

09:55FOR THOSE WHO ARE AFFECTED BY

09:57TPS.

09:58UH NOT NOT SOLELY UM ASSISTANCE

10:01BUT A PLAN.

10:03UH, LOOKING AT THE REGS,

10:04LOOKING AT WHAT CAN OR WHAT

10:06NEEDS TO BE ADJUSTED.

10:08AND I WANT TO THANK THE STATE

10:09FOR THEIR PARTNERSHIP IN MAKING

10:12AND REVIEWING AND IN WORKING

10:15WITH UH IFRC IN OUR OFFICE AND

10:18IN THE OFFICE OF HOUSING

10:19STABILITY AND RECOGNIZING THAT

10:21THERE ARE ISSUES UH, THAT WE

10:23NEED TO UH, UPSTREAM ISSUES

10:25THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS NOW TO

10:26THE DOWNSTREAM ISSUES OF MORE

10:28AND MORE PEOPLE GOING INTO

10:30SHELTER.

10:30AND SO THESE ARE EXTREMELY AND

10:33INCREDIBLY HARD TIMES.

10:35UM, IT WEIGHS HEAVY ON SO MANY

10:38IN OUR COMMUNITY AND ON OUR

10:40BACKS.

10:40AND I JUST WANT TO THANK

10:42EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN FIGHTING.

10:43UH, TOGETHER WE HAVE A LOT

10:45OF WE'VE SEEN A DECLINE IN OUR

10:47BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF OUR

10:48STUDENT POPULATION OF OF TPS

10:52HOLDERS OF HAITIAN OF HAITIAN

10:53STUDENTS.

10:53THAT'S BEEN A PRECIPITOUS

10:55DECLINE EVEN AFTER LAST YEAR.

10:57WE'RE SEEING A CONTINUED

10:58DECLINE.

10:59WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE OTHER

11:00COUNTRIES EL SALVADOR STATUS

11:01RIGHT NOW FOR TPS IS MURKY.

11:04UH, THERE'S A LOT OF WORK THAT

11:06WE HAVE TO DO COLLECTIVELY AND

11:07COLLABORATIVELY AND I AM SO

11:09GRATEFUL FOR ALL OF THE PEOPLE

11:11WHO ARE DOING THAT WORK

11:12TOGETHER IN HAITIAN CREOLE WE

11:12HAVE A SAYING MAY PALU MANY

11:15HANDS MAKE THE BURDEN LIGHT AND

11:16I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO

11:17HAS BEEN PART.

11:19OF OF OF.

11:20MAKING THAT BURDEN LIGHT

11:21OUTLINED AND SAYING YOU KNOW, I

11:23LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING THE

11:24WORK OF MOYA.

11:25UH, TWO WEEKS AGO I RECEIVED A

11:26TEXT MESSAGE FROM A TPS

11:29RECIPIENT WHO TOLD ME THAT HER

11:31CHILD WAS HAVING SUICIDAL

11:33IDEATIONS AND THAT SHE HAD HIT

11:34THE END OF HER ROAD BECAUSE

11:38OF THE LACK OF EMPLOYMENT AND

11:39BECAUSE OF HER AND BECAUSE SHE

11:42DIDN'T KNOW HOW SHE WAS GOING

11:43TO PAY HER MORTGAGES.

11:44WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE

11:45ARE PUTTING ALL OF THE

11:46RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE

11:47AVAILABLE TO ADDRESS THE MENTAL

11:48HEALTH ISSUES AND THE HOUSING

11:50NEEDS OF ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS.

11:51THANK YOU.

11:54THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

11:55COUNCILOR.

11:56>> MY HERE YOU HAVE.

11:58SIX MINUTES.

12:00>> WOW, YOU'RE VERY GENEROUS.

12:03COUNCILOR CHAIR.

12:04NORMALLY OPENING REMARKS ONLY

12:06TWO.

12:06YOU WANT ME TO TAKE?

12:07YEAH.

12:07YEAH, I WANT TO YEAH I WANT TO

12:09TAKE TO UM I ALSO WANT TO BE

12:12MINDFUL THAT WE'RE HERE TO

12:14LISTEN AND SO I AM A GRATEFUL,

12:16UH, TO COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR

12:18HER STEADFAST LEADERSHIP, UM,

12:21AND COMMITMENT.

12:21UH, I KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO

12:23SEE MY PEOPLE SUFFER, RIGHT?

12:27AND SOMETIMES WE HOLD THESE

12:30THINGS SO MUCH MORE.

12:32AT OUR HEART.

12:33WHEN IT'S, YOU KNOW, OUR LOVED

12:36ONES.

12:36AND I THINK THIS ADVOCACY IN

12:39REGARDS TO WHAT THE CITY CAN DO

12:42IN TERMS OF INCREASING OUR

12:44SUPPORT SERVICES, IT'S NOT JUST

12:46A CONVERSATION FOR THE SAKE

12:47OF HAVING ONE.

12:47IT'S REALLY UNDERSTANDING THAT

12:48THIS MOMENT IS GOING TO REQUIRE

12:50US TO POUR OUR DOLLARS INTO UH,

12:54FUNDING UH, WHATEVER IT TAKES

12:56TO UM TO ENSURE THAT THE SAFETY

13:00NET I'M THINKING SPECIFICALLY

13:02AROUND SOME OF THE MUTUAL AID I

13:03WE'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF WE'VE

13:05GOTTEN A LOT OF CALLS FROM OUR

13:06OFFICE IN REGARDS TO UM, FOLKS

13:10NOW AFRAID TO GO TO THE FOOD

13:11PANTRY SO ASKING FOR SUPPORT

13:14FOR DELIVERY DRIVERS.

13:16WE'VE BEEN GETTING A LOT

13:17OF CALLS FROM FOLKS WHO NOW AS

13:19A RESULT OF THIS UM, ARE

13:22FEELING THE CRUNCH NOT JUST

13:24WITH HOUSING BUT ALSO WITH

13:27WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE GOING TO

13:29YOU KNOW, NOW THEY'RE LOSING

13:30THEIR JOBS TO SO UH, THEY CAN'T

13:32COLLECT UNEMPLOYMENT AND SO

13:34WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE?

13:36UM, AND SO WHAT OUR OFFICE DID

13:38IN FEBRUARY IN PREPARATION FOR

13:40THIS UM, EARLIER WE HIRED

13:43SOMEONE SPECIFICALLY JUST TO

13:44HELP US, UH, TO BE THE HAITIAN

13:46LIAISON TO HELP US, YOU KNOW,

13:48GET READY FOR THIS.

13:50BUT IT NEVER CAME.

13:51AND NOW THAT IT IS HERE, UM,

13:55NOW WE ALSO HAVE TO FIGURE OUT

13:56HOW WE SUPPLEMENT THAT WORK,

13:59UM, FROM OUR OFFICE SO THAT WE

14:00HAVE SOMEONE IN DIRECT

14:02COMMUNICATION.

14:02SO I THINK THAT THIS IS

14:04STAFFING FUNDING AND THEN

14:07COORDINATION AND I'LL JUST END

14:09WITH I ALWAYS SAY THAT BOSTON

14:10IS RESOURCE RICH BUT

14:11COORDINATION FOR THIS IS REALLY

14:13AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO LOOK

14:15AT ALL CITY DEPARTMENTS AND I'M

14:16GLAD THAT MOYA IS HERE.

14:17BUT THERE ARE OTHER DEPARTMENTS

14:19THAT INTERFACE THERE'S HOUSING.

14:22UM I WOULD HAVE YOU KNOW THEY

14:24THEY THEY PLAY A ROLE IN THIS.

14:26RIGHT.

14:26AND I THINK THAT, UM, THERE IS

14:28AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO ALSO

14:30BE INVOLVED IN THIS

14:31CONVERSATION FOR OUR LEGAL

14:31DEPARTMENT.

14:32SO I'D LIKE TO HEAR, UM, FROM

14:35YOU, UH, COURTNEY, HOW MOYA IS

14:38INTERACTING AND INTERFACING

14:39WITH OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS AS

14:41IT RELATES TO THIS SO THAT

14:42YOU'RE NOT THE SOLE, UM, YOU

14:45KNOW, PERSON CARRYING THIS.

14:46SO JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO

14:48DIGGING IN A LITTLE BIT DEEPER.

14:50THANK YOU.

14:50THANK YOU, CONCILOR MEJIA UH.

14:52AT THIS TIME.

14:53>> I'D LIKE.

14:54>> TO NOW.

14:55INTRODUCE TODAY'S

14:57ADMINISTRATION PANELIST.

14:58COURTNEY WHITE, UH, INTERIM

15:01EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE.

15:02MAYOR'S OFFICE.

15:04OF IMMIGRANT ADVANCEMENT.

15:05UH, MR MARONEY, YOU YOU MAY AS

15:07WELL SAY THAT NOW THAT YOU'RE

15:08THERE, YOU CAN SAY THAT EVEN

15:10THOUGH YOU'LL BE ON THE SECOND

15:11PANEL, YOU CAN STAY THERE.

15:14THERE'S PLENTY OF ROOM AT THE

15:16TABLE.

15:18COURTNEY, YOU HAVE SIX MINUTES.

15:20I WILL, UM, TRY TO GO FAST.

15:23UM, BUT THANK YOU, COUNCILORS.

15:24>> FOR CALLING THIS HEARING

15:25TODAY.

15:25THANK YOU FOR HIGHLIGHTING SOME

15:27OF THE CONCERNS THAT WE'VE

15:28REALLY BEEN SEEING IN OUR

15:30COMMUNITIES THROUGH OUR

15:30CONSTITUENT SERVICES TEAM,

15:32THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH

15:33.

15:34AND YOU'LL HEAR FROM THE

15:35PANELISTS A LOT OF WHAT THEY'RE

15:36SEEING ON THE GROUND.

15:37UM, SO AS COUNCILOR CULPEPPER

15:39SAID, MY NAME IS COURTNEY

15:40WHITE.

15:40I AM THE INTERIM EXECUTIVE

15:42DIRECTOR FOR MOY.

15:43UM UM I WAS PREVIOUSLY OUR

15:45DIRECTOR OF CONSTITUENT

15:46SERVICES.

15:47SO INTERFACING REALLY.

15:48CLOSELY WITH OUR COMMUNITY

15:49PARTNERS AND OUR CONSTITUENTS.

15:51UM, I WANTED TO DO A VERY QUICK

15:53BACKGROUND ON TEMPORARY

15:54PROTECTED STATUS FOR FOLKS WHO

15:56MIGHT NOT BE FAMILIAR.

15:57SO IT IS A FORM OF TEMPORARY

15:59STATUS.

15:59IT'S A HUMANITARIAN IMMIGRATION

16:01STATUS GRANTED BY THE

16:02DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

16:03.

16:04UM, IT IT ALLOWS FOR FOLKS TO

16:06GENERALLY NOT BE DEPORTED UM,

16:08ALLOWED TO WORK BUT DOES NOT

16:09PROVIDE A DIRECT PATHWAY TO

16:11PERMANENT RESIDENCY.

16:13UM AND AS COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

16:15ALLUDED TO, UM, YOU KNOW,

16:17PARTICULARLY WITH THE SITUATION

16:18WITH EL SALVADOR TYPICALLY UM

16:2060 DAYS BEFORE A STATUS IS DUE

16:23TO EXPIRE, UH, A HOMELAND

16:24SECURITY SECRETARY MUST

16:25DETERMINE WHETHER TO RENEW IT,

16:28DESIGNATE A RE DESIGNATE FOR

16:29EXPANDED TO INCLUDE NEW

16:30ARRIVALS FROM THE COUNTRY OR

16:32TERMINATE IT.

16:35UM SO JUST ZONING A ZOOMING IN

16:38ON TPS FOR HAITI AND BOSTON IN

16:40PARTICULAR.

16:42UM IT WAS FIRST DESIGNATED IN

16:44JANUARY 2010 FOLLOWING THE

16:45DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE.

16:47UM THEN RE DESIGNATED

16:48SUBSEQUENTLY AND BLESS YOU UH

16:502011 2021 2022 AND 2024 SO

16:54REALLY SHOWING THE NEED FOR

16:56CONTINUED PROTECTIONS FOR THIS

16:58COMMUNITY UM UNFORTUNATELY

17:00ENDED UH, IN JULY FOLLOWING A

17:02U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION AND

17:04LIFTING OF COURT PAUSES.

17:06UM AND WE ESTIMATE THAT AROUND

17:0755,000 HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS IN

17:09GREATER BOSTON ARE IMPACTED.

17:11UM, AND AS WE WERE TALKING

17:13ABOUT BEFORE, HAITIANS IN

17:14BOSTON ARE THE THIRD LARGEST

17:15FOREIGN BORN GROUP IN THE CITY.

17:17UM, WE ESTIMATE THAT THERE ARE

17:19AROUND 15,851 IN IN THE BOSTON

17:23AREA WITH 5700 BEING

17:26NON-CITIZENS.

17:28UM AND AS COUNCILOR CULPEPER UM

17:31MENTIONED EARLIER, WE DO HAVE A

17:33LITTLE BIT OF UM SOME DIFFERENT

17:34STATISTICS THAN WE LAST

17:35PRESENTED.

17:36UM, THAT IS BECAUSE THE DATA

17:38WAS NOT QUITE AVAILABLE WHEN WE

17:39FIRST PRESENTED.

17:40SO AS YOU CAN SEE UM THE NUMBER

17:42HAS DEFINITELY GROWN.

17:44THERE ABOUT 5790 HAITIANS IN

17:47BOSTON WHO WERE PREVIOUSLY

17:48COVERED BY TEMPORARY PROTECTED

17:50STATUS.

17:52UM AND YOU'LL SEE ALSO A

17:53POPULATION OF 1302 FOR EL

17:56SALVADOR UM AS WELL AS NUMBERS

17:58FOR UKRAINE, VENEZUELA AND

17:59HONDURAS.

18:02UM SO A BIT OF AN UPDATE ON

18:04WHERE LITIGATION STANDS.

18:06UM, SO JUST GOING QUICKLY

18:08THROUGH THIS UM, IN NOVEMBER

18:09OF LAST YEAR THE FEDERAL

18:10ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCED THAT

18:12HAITI'S TPS DESIGNATION AND

18:14BENEFITS WOULD TERMINATE ON

18:15FEBRUARY 3RD.

18:16UM, THERE WERE SOME COURT UH,

18:18CASES TO ATTEMPT TO STAY THIS

18:20DECISION.

18:21UM, AND IT WENT UP ALL THE WAY

18:23TO THE SUPREME COURT.

18:24UM, AND ON JUNE 25TH THE

18:26SUPREME COURT RULED THAT THE

18:27IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT

18:29PREVENTS JUDGES FROM SECOND

18:30GUESSING OR BLOCKING GOVERNMENT

18:32DECISIONS TO GRANT, EXTEND OR

18:34END A COUNTRY'S TPS DESIGNATION

18:36.

18:37UM, SO WHAT THAT DID WAS IT

18:38LIFTED BLOCKS IN PLACE BY THE

18:40LOWER COURT AND PAVED THE WAY

18:41FOR THE FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION

18:43TO TERMINATE TPS.

18:44AND WE'RE REALLY CONCERNED

18:45ABOUT THE BROADER IMPLICATIONS

18:46AND IMPACT HERE BECAUSE IT SET

18:48A PRECEDENT FOR TERMINATION

18:49OF OTHER FORTHCOMING

18:51DESIGNATIONS, UH, BECAUSE

18:52FUTURE LEGAL CHALLENGES WILL,

18:53UM, BECOME DIFFICULT.

18:55SO YOU'LL SEE THAT, UM, EL

18:57SALVADOR IS, UM UP FOR

18:59TERMINATION.

18:59THE DESIGNATION EXPIRED ON

19:02SEPTEMBER 9TH, BUT PROTECTIONS

19:03AND WORK PERMITS ARE STILL IN

19:04PLACE.

19:05UM, AND THEN WE'RE REALLY

19:06CONCERNED FOR SUDAN, UKRAINE,

19:08UM, AND LEBANON IN PARTICULAR.

19:13UM AND IN CONGRESS UM, VERY

19:15QUICKLY BECAUSE I KNOW I AM UH

19:17,RUNNING SHORT ON TIME.

19:18I'M JUST GOING TO UM, YOU KNOW

19:21,REFERENCE WHAT UH,

19:22COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE WAS

19:23MENTIONING UM THAT THERE.

19:25YES.

19:25>> AND I'LL GIVE YOU EXTRA

19:26TIME.

19:26OH.

19:27>> THANK YOU.

19:28UM, SO WHAT WE WERE SEEING IS,

19:31UM WE DID HAVE A REP UM,

19:33CONGRESSWOMAN AYANNA PRESSLEY,

19:35UH, DISCHARGE POSITION THAT

19:37WENT THROUGH UM AND NOW WE ARE

19:39WAITING TO SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN

19:41IN THE SENATE.

19:41UM, AND WE ARE HOPING THAT THE

19:43SENATE BILL WILL PASS.

19:44WE'RE WAITING I THINK THERE ARE

19:463438 FOLKS WHO HAVE SIGNED ON

19:49AND WE ARE WAITING FOR A

19:50MAJORITY OF 60.

19:52UM, SO I'LL GET TO NOW WHAT

19:54EVERYONE I THINK IS HOPING TO

19:56HEAR THE MOST ABOUT UM SO THESE

19:58ARE UM THE ANTICIPATED

20:00COMMUNITY IMPACTS AND SOME

20:02OF THESE WERE ALREADY SEEN IN

20:03OUR COMMUNITIES.

20:04SO HOUSING INSECURITY, FAMILIES

20:06FACING EVICTION AND RETURNING

20:07TO SHELTER.

20:08LOSS OF ACCESS TO SAFETY NET

20:11PROGRAMS SUCH AS HOME BASE.

20:12UM WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT

20:14NOTARIAL FRAUD AND SCAMS.

20:15PEOPLE TAKING UM ADVANTAGE

20:17OF OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS BEING

20:18REALLY FEARFUL AND SCARED ABOUT

20:20THEIR STATUS BENEFITS ON

20:22ENROLLMENT, FAMILIES LOSING

20:23ACCESS TO THEIR BENEFITS.

20:25UM AND FOR THOSE THAT ARE STILL

20:26ELIGIBLE UH, WITH THE NEW

20:28PUBLIC CHARGE UH RULE SEEING A

20:29CHILLING EFFECT OF PEOPLE

20:31EITHER NOT ENROLLING OR ON

20:32ENROLLING.

20:33UM, AS THE COUNSELOR ALLUDED TO

20:35INCREASED LEVELS OF ANXIETY,

20:36FEAR AND EMOTIONAL DISTRESS

20:39EDUCATIONAL DISRUPTION.

20:41SO WE'RE SEEING INCREASED

20:42ABSENTEEISM UM, AS WELL AS

20:43ANXIETY DUE TO LOOMING THREAT

20:45OF PARENTAL DEPORTATION.

20:46AND THEN OF COURSE UM,

20:48IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT

20:49OF PEOPLE WITH NO STATUS

20:50LEADING TO FAMILY SEPARATIONS.

20:52UM WE ALSO SAW IN OHIO UM, YOU

20:54KNOW, WE'RE SEEING THAT UH,

20:56INDIVIDUALS ARE REPORTING TO

20:58THEIR ICE CHECK INS, UM, AND

20:59THEY'RE HAVING THEIR PASSPORTS

21:00CONFISCATED AND ARE BEING

21:01FORCED TO WEAR ANKLE MONITORS.

21:03AND WE WITNESSED THE TRAGIC

21:04DEATH THE OTHER WEEK OF, UM THE

21:07COLLEGE STUDENT IN OHIO, PIERRE

21:09UM BELL, WHO DIED BY SUICIDE

21:11BECAUSE HE WAS BULLIED AND FELT

21:13ASHAMED OF HAVING TO WEAR THAT

21:14ANKLE MONITOR.

21:16UH, WE'RE ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT

21:17THE IMPACTS ON THE FAMILIES,

21:19UM, AND THE CHILDREN THAT MIGHT

21:20BE LEFT BEHIND THAT KNOW THE

21:21UNITED STATES AS THEIR HOME.

21:23UM, SO OF THE 1800 CHILDREN AND

21:26OTHER ADULT FAMILY MEMBERS THAT

21:27WOULD BE IMPACTED, 75% OF THOSE

21:29CHILDREN ARE U.S. CITIZENS.

21:31AND WE'RE REALLY CONCERNED THAT

21:32THESE FAMILIES WILL BE FORCED

21:33TO MAKE THAT CHALLENGING

21:35DECISION WHETHER TO, UH, RETURN

21:37TO HAITI TOGETHER OR SEPARATE.

21:40UM, AND SO THESE ARE THE

21:42COMMUNITY NEEDS THAT WE'VE BEEN

21:43IDENTIFYING AND UNDERNEATH AS

21:45BULLETS ARE THE RESPONSES THAT

21:46UM, MOYA ALONG WITH OTHER CITY

21:48DEPARTMENTS HAVE HAD.

21:49SO WE'RE REALLY SEEING A NEED

21:50FOR BROAD BASED COMMUNITY

21:52SUPPORT.

21:53UM, SO ALONGSIDE

21:54COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE, MAYOR WU

21:55LED OVER 100 MAYORS AND LOCAL

21:58OFFICIALS IN URGING THE US

21:59SENATE TO PASS UM SENATE BILL

22:01FOR A 4814 AND EXTEND TEMPORARY

22:04PROTECTED STATUS.

22:05WE'RE ALSO SHOWING OUR SUPPORT

22:06AND PRESENCE AT RALLIES IN

22:08SUPPORT OF THE COMMUNITY.

22:09WE'RE SIGNING ON TO AMICUS

22:11BRIEFS AND WE'RE ALSO ENSURING

22:12THAT WE'RE HAVING ONGOING

22:13DIALOG WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS

22:15SUCH AS THE MIA COALITION, UM

22:17AND FC.

22:18WE'RE SEEING THE NEED FOR QUICK

22:19AND ACCURATE UM AND LANGUAGE

22:21ACCESSIBLE INFORMATION.

22:22SO WE CREATED A KNOW YOUR

22:24RIGHTS UM DISSEMINATION

22:25CAMPAIGN.

22:26YOU CAN VISIT OUR WEBSITE

22:28BOSTON.GOV/BELONGING TO RECEIVE

22:29ALL OF THESE MATERIALS FOR YOUR

22:31COMMUNITIES IN HAITIAN CREOLE.

22:32AND WE ALSO HOSTED IN

22:34COLLABORATION WITH THE MIRROR

22:36COALITION A FAMILY PREPAREDNESS

22:37WEBINAR FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS.

22:39SO HOW CAN SERVICE PROVIDERS

22:40HAVE THAT REALLY CHALLENGING

22:41CONVERSATION WITH FAMILIES

22:43ABOUT PREPARING FOR YOUR

22:44FUTURE?

22:45UM WE'RE SEEING EMERGENCY

22:46SHELTER AND SAFETY NET BENEFITS

22:48ACCESS CHALLENGES AS I

22:49MENTIONED.

22:50SO WE ARE HAVING ONGOING

22:51CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN OUR

22:53OFFICE, THE OFFICE OF HOUSING

22:54UM AND THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE

22:56OF HOUSING AND LIVABLE

22:57COMMUNITIES.

22:58AND THEN WE'RE ALSO

22:59COLLABORATING WITH THE HEALTH

23:01COMMISSION ON A HEALTH BENEFITS

23:02AWARENESS CAMPAIGN.

23:04UM, IN MOST IMPORTANTLY

23:07ENFORCEMENT RELATED LEGAL

23:08SUPPORT.

23:08SO WE ARE REALLY GRATEFUL TO

23:10THE COUNCIL FOR THE AMENDMENTS

23:11THAT YOU ALL FILED, UM, THAT

23:12HAVE ENABLED US TO CONTINUE A

23:14FIFTH ROUND OF OUR IMMIGRATION

23:15LEGAL ACCESS GRANTS.

23:16WE TRIED TO GET THOSE OUT AS

23:18SOON AND EARLY AS POSSIBLE.

23:20SO WE ANTICIPATE UM WE ARE

23:21CURRENTLY REVIEWING

23:23APPLICATIONS AND ANTICIPATE

23:24GETTING FUNDING OUT TO

23:25COMMUNITY IN NOVEMBER.

23:27WE CONTINUE TO OFFER OUR TWICE

23:28MONTHLY FREE IMMIGRATION

23:30CONSULTATIONS.

23:31UM AND WE ARE REALLY WORKING

23:33HARD TO STRENGTHEN LEGAL

23:34REFERRAL NETWORKS AND

23:35PARTNERSHIPS SO THAT AS THE

23:36COUNSELOR SAID, RIGHT, WE CAN

23:38HAVE THESE WARM HANDOFFS.

23:39WE CAN HELP TROUBLESHOOT AND

23:41WORK CLOSELY ALONGSIDE OUR

23:42LEGAL AID PROVIDERS TO MAKE

23:43SURE THAT FOLKS WHO ARE

23:44REACHING OUT TO OUR OFFICE GET

23:46THE HELP THAT THEY NEED.

23:48UM AND THEN LASTLY OTHER

23:49SUPPORT.

23:50SO UM, WHEN ONGOING LITIGATION

23:51WAS HAPPENING AND EMPLOYERS

23:52WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR

23:54RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES.

23:56WE HOSTED UM IN COLLABORATION

23:57WITH THE STATE AND EMPLOYER

23:58FOCUSED WEBINAR.

23:59WE'RE ALSO EXPLORING

24:01ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A PATHWAY

24:02FOR INCOME GENERATION.

24:03UM WE PROVIDED TRAINING AND

24:05GUIDANCE FOR CITY STAFF WHILE

24:06LITIGATION WAS PENDING TO MAKE

24:08SURE THAT OTHER DEPARTMENTS

24:09WERE PROVIDING ACCURATE

24:10INFORMATION AND COULD POINT UM

24:12THEIR CONSTITUENTS TO ADEQUATE

24:14RESOURCES.

24:14AND THEN OF COURSE WE HAVE OUR

24:16ONGOING CONSTITUENT SUPPORT.

24:17UM, SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE THREE

24:18HAITIAN CREOLE SPEAKERS ON

24:20STAFF TO ENSURE THAT WE CAN

24:21ANSWER UM AND HAVE THESE

24:23CONVERSATIONS WITH FOLKS IN A

24:24LANGUAGE THEY UNDERSTAND.

24:26AND THEN OF COURSE WE HAVE OUR

24:27WEAVING WILL BE MENTAL HEALTH

24:29GRANTS THAT WILL BE COMING OUT

24:31AS WELL IN EARLY NOVEMBER.

24:32AGAIN WITH THE INTENTION

24:34OF MAKING SURE THAT WE CAN UM,

24:36SUPPORT OUR MOST VULNERABLE

24:38RESIDENTS AND MAKING SURE THAT

24:39THEY HAVE ACCESS TO CULTURALLY

24:41RESPONSIVE, UM, MENTAL HEALTH

24:43SUPPORTS.

24:45UM I THINK THAT IS THE END

24:46OF MY PRESENTATION FOR NOW BUT

24:48HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS

24:49THAT YOU ALL HAVE AND THANK YOU

24:51FOR THE ADDITIONAL TIME.

24:52THANK YOU.

24:53>> THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

24:55LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE SIX MINUTES.

24:58UM THANK YOU.

24:59COURTNEY FOR THAT PRESENTATION.

25:00I'M JUST GOING TO CONTINUE TO

25:01HIGHLIGHT THE WORK THAT WE NEED

25:03TO CONTINUE TO DO WITH THE

25:04OFFICE OF HOUSING STABILITY

25:04AROUND THE ISSUES THAT YOU

25:05MENTIONED AND BEEN HAVING CALLS

25:07ON WHEN IT COMES TO WRAPPING

25:08WHEN IT COMES ON BASE.

25:09I WANT TO CONTINUE TO HIGHLIGHT

25:11I DON'T KNOW IF THERE ARE IF

25:12THERE AND I THINK EMILY CALLED

25:13YOUR OFFICE TO TALK ABOUT THIS

25:15BUT HOW WE CAN BE MORE EMBEDDED

25:17EMBEDDED IN THE MENTAL HEALTH

25:18WORK.

25:18THERE ARE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

25:20THAT ARE ALSO LEADING IN THE

25:21WORK.

25:21I KNOW UNITED WAY'S ALSO

25:22PUTTING TOGETHER AND HAS ARE ON

25:24CALLS UM EVERY OTHER WEEK

25:25TALKING ABOUT THIS BUT REALLY

25:26MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE PLUGGING

25:28IN AND GETTING UM CONNECTING

25:30WITH WITH FOLKS WHO NEED MENTAL

25:32HEALTH SUPPORT.

25:33I THINK THAT COULD PROBABLY BE

25:34DONE UM, BETTER.

25:37AND YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT

25:39OF INSURANCE ISSUES THAT

25:40PROVIDERS WHO WANT TO DO THE

25:42GOOD WORK.

25:42SO I'M NOT SURE IF THERE ARE UM

25:44FUNDING MECHANISMS MECHANISMS

25:46THERE.

25:47I KNOW THAT AT ONE POINT THERE

25:48WAS THE WEAVING WELL-BEING.

25:49YES.

25:49GRANTS ARE THOSE STILL UH BUT

25:52ARE THOSE STILL HAPPENING IN

25:53LIFE?

25:55I GUESS.

25:56OH, THERE WE GO.

25:57THANK YOU.

25:57COUNCILOR.

25:58UM, SO THOSE ARE THE THE GRANTS

25:59THAT I WAS MENTIONING.

26:00THOSE ARE CURRENTLY OPEN FOR

26:02APPLICATIONS THROUGH NEXT WEEK

26:03.

26:04SO I'M HAPPY TO SEND TO YOUR

26:05TEAMS UM, THAT OUTREACH

26:07MATERIAL IF THERE ARE FOLKS

26:08THAT YOU DO WANT TO SEND IT TO.

26:09I'M HAPPY TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS

26:10WITH ORGANIZATIONS WHO MIGHT BE

26:12INTERESTED IN APPLYING.

26:13AND WHO CAN APPLY IN LIKE A

26:14MENTAL HEALTH FOR EXAMPLE LIKE

26:16CONSORTIUM CAN THEY APPLY FOR

26:18IT?

26:18SO OUR FOCUS IS ON.

26:19NON-CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH.

26:21UM JUST FEELING THAT REALLY

26:23WHAT OUR OFFICE.

26:23>> IS.

26:24TRYING TO DO IS FILL THAT GAP

26:25KNOWING THAT THERE IS EXISTING

26:26FUNDING FOR REALLY CLINICAL

26:27SUPPORT SO THAT.

26:28FUNDING FROM UM.

26:30PRIVATE AGENCIES.

26:31>> SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING VERY

26:32CLOSELY WITH UM FOR EXAMPLE

26:33BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD WE'VE

26:35BEEN REFERRING ORGANIZATIONS TO

26:37THEM.

26:38UM ONE OF THOUGH THAT IS ONE

26:40OF THEIR PRIORITIES.

26:41AND WE ALSO.

26:41>> WORK REALLY CLOSELY WITH THE

26:42UNITED WAY BOSTON FOUNDATION TO

26:44MAKE SURE THAT THE FUNDING THAT

26:46WE'RE DOING AT THE CITY IS

26:48COMPLEMENTARY AND WE'RE NOT

26:49OVERLAPPING.

26:49SO THEY'RE REALLY FOCUSED ON

26:51THE MUTUAL AID ASPECT.

26:52AND SO OUR AREA OF FOCUS IS

26:53REALLY THE MENTAL HEALTH AND

26:55THE LEGAL AID.

26:55UM, BUT I'M HAPPY TO CONNECT

26:57YOU UM WITH WITH OUR CONTACTS

26:59THERE AS WELL.

27:00THANK YOU.

27:00YEAH.

27:00AND I'M GLAD THAT THE WORK THAT

27:02WE DID UM IN BACK IN FEBRUARY

27:04MARCH WITH THE UNITE BRINGING

27:05THE UNITED WAY TOGETHER WITH

27:06THE BOSTON FOUNDATION TO MAKE

27:08BECAUSE WE SAW THIS COMING DOWN

27:09THE PIKE BUT THERE'S STILL NOT

27:11ENOUGH INCOMING FUNDS EVEN FOR

27:13THOSE LARGE INSTITUTIONS TO DO

27:14ALL OF THIS WORK.

27:15UM, I WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH

27:17THE MENTAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM

27:19AND THEY'RE WHO I SEND WHEN I

27:21GET THESE TEXT MESSAGES WHEN I

27:23GET THAT DIRECT OUTREACH.

27:24BUT THEY HAVE FUNDING ISSUES SO

27:26THEY CAN PROBABLY TALK ABOUT

27:27HOW TO SUPPORT THEM AS THEY'RE

27:30AS THEY'RE SERVING A VERY

27:31VULNERABLE POPULATION.

27:32UM, I THINK THOSE ARE JUST THE

27:34THINGS THAT I WANTED TO.

27:35UPLIFT.

27:35>> HOUSING, MENTAL HEALTH.

27:37UH.

27:38>> CONTINUED SUPPORT IN OUR

27:39SCHOOLS BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT

27:40WE'RE A LOT LIKE AS I SAID

27:41EARLIER, WE CONTINUE TO LOSE,

27:42UM, HAITIAN STUDENTS, UM, IN

27:45OUR BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND

27:49CONTINUED OUR WORK AND ADVOCACY

27:52ALONGSIDE DOCTOR GABBARD JUST.

27:53WALKED IN.

27:54>> FOR SENATE BILL FOR 814.

27:56UM, WE ARE ONLY THREE DEMOCRATS

27:59SHY OF HAVING ALL DEMOCRATS UM

28:02ON BOARD FOR THE BILL.

28:03AND THEN SO IT'S THERE'S BEEN A

28:05LOT OF PROGRESS IN THE LAST

28:07MONTH.

28:07UM, BUT I THINK THOSE ARE THE

28:09JUST THE THINGS THAT I WANTED

28:10TO CONTINUE UPLIFTING AND UM,

28:12THE CONTINUING NEED FOR LEGAL

28:14RESOURCES.

28:15I WILL SAY HAS THERE BEEN

28:16PROGRESS MADE ON THOSE EVERY

28:17TWO CALLS?

28:17ONE OF THE FEEDBACK THAT I'VE

28:18KEPT PIECE OF FEEDBACK THAT

28:19I'VE GIVEN IS LIKE HAVING THEM

28:21IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES, UM, OR

28:23HAVING TRANSLATORS.

28:24IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE'RE

28:25DOING ABLE TO DO LONGER PERIODS

28:28OF TIME LIKE WHAT DOES THE

28:29HANDOFF ARE THERE WARM HANDOFFS

28:31FROM THERE?

28:32UM, SO ARE THE IS THAT THE THE

28:34IMMIGRATION CONSULTATIONS?

28:35YES.

28:36SO UM WE HAVE OUR ACCESS TO OUR

28:39LANGUAGE LINE.

28:39SO THOSE ARE THOSE HAVE ALWAYS

28:40BEEN COMPLETELY UM UH

28:43MULTILINGUAL.

28:44SO WE DO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN

28:45WE'RE CONNECTING WITH SOMEONE

28:46THAT WE CONFIRM WHAT LANGUAGE

28:47THEY WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH

28:48THE ATTORNEY IN.

28:49UM, WE HAVE TRIED REALLY HARD

28:50TO GET MORE HAITIAN CREOLE

28:52SPEAKERS AND, UM, WE WOULD LOVE

28:54TO HELP BUILD UP THE PIPELINE

28:55OF THOSE FOLKS.

28:56SO IF YOU DO KNOW ANYONE THAT

28:57IS INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING

28:59BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THAT THAT

29:00HELPS IN THAT EXCHANGE.

29:02UM.

29:03I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE OUR LIST

29:04OF HAITIAN SPEAKS HAITIAN

29:06CREOLE SPEAKING ATTORNEYS.

29:08SO IF I MEAN I'M WE'RE HAPPY TO

29:09SEND YOU IF THERE MAY BE OR

29:11MISSING 1 OR 2 WHO BUT IT'S

29:12ALSO TIME CONSUMING FOR THEM

29:13BECAUSE THEY'RE ALSO THE PEOPLE

29:14WHO I SEND EMERGENCY LEGAL

29:16ISSUES TO IN ADDITION TO OTHER

29:18ATTORNEYS.

29:18SO IT JUST UH BUT I REMEMBER

29:19PASTOR KIKI HIGHLIGHTING

29:21LANGUAGE ISSUES AND THE AMOUNT

29:23OF.

29:23TIME YES, THE 15 MINUTES IS

29:25REALLY SHORT AND UM, NEEDING TO

29:29DO MORE WARM HANDOFFS AND I

29:31THINK WE I'M JUST GOING TO SAY

29:32THIS FOR EVERYONE RIGHT.

29:33YESTERDAY WAS AN EXAMPLE LIKE

29:34WE DEFINITELY WHEN IT COMES TO

29:35LEGAL ISSUES NEED TO HOLD

29:37PEOPLE'S HANDS SO THAT THEY

29:38HAVE LEGAL REPRESENTATION.

29:41LAST WEEK WE'RE IN A FIGHT

29:42CALLING ALL SORTS OF ATTORNEYS

29:44SOMEONE WAS THEY HAD TO APPEAL

29:46THEIR CASE.

29:47IT WAS A THEY CALLED THEIR

29:48OFFICE ON A WEDNESDAY AND THAT

29:49THURSDAY WAS THE DEADLINE FOR

29:50THE APPEAL.

29:51AND SO WE JUST NEED TO MAKE

29:53SURE THAT WE'RE FINDING

29:54SOLUTIONS.

29:55SO NO I APPRECIATE THAT AND

29:56THAT IS SOMETHING THAT OUR

29:57LEGAL ACCESS UM PROJECT MANAGER

29:59IS REALLY WORKING CLOSELY WITH

30:00THE ATTORNEYS ON IS MAKING SURE

30:02WE HAVE A GOOD UNDERSTANDING

30:03OF WHAT SOMEONE'S NEXT STEPS

30:04ARE AND HOW WE CAN KIND

30:06OF GUIDE THEM IN THAT PROCESS.

30:08UM, THE LENGTH OF TIME IS A BIT

30:09CHALLENGING AS YOU SAID, RIGHT?

30:11UM, THE SAME POOL WHO IS

30:13PROVIDING THESE PRO-BONO

30:13SERVICES IS ALSO PROVIDING UM

30:15LEGAL AID.

30:17UM BUT WE HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE

30:18THAT WE HAVE SOME ATTORNEYS

30:19THAT TYPICALLY GO A LITTLE BIT

30:20LONGER.

30:21UM, BUT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT

30:22WE ARE TRYING TO EXPLORE AND

30:24UNFORTUNATELY HAS BEEN A

30:25CHALLENGE JUST BECAUSE OF THE

30:27COMMITMENT.

30:27UM, I DID ALSO JUST WANT TO

30:28FLAG ON THE UM PART WE DO HAVE

30:31BIWEEKLY CALLS WITH UM SENIOR

30:32LEADERSHIP UM, INCLUDING.

30:35>> FROM THE.

30:35LEGAL TEAM UM THEIR SOCIAL WORK

30:37DEPARTMENT POLICY AND SO ON AND

30:39SO FORTH TO REALLY SEE HOW OUR

30:41OFFICES CAN COMPLEMENT ONE

30:42ANOTHER.

30:43UM, SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT

30:45IS CONTINUING UM, AND WE'RE

30:46MAKING SURE THAT WE ELEVATE

30:48CONCERNS ACROSS BOTH TEAMS.

30:51UM AND THEN LASTLY WHEN WE DO

30:53AWARD OUR MENTAL HEALTH GRANTS

30:55WE ARE PLANNING TO CREATE KIND

30:56OF A REFERRAL BASED SYSTEM, UM,

30:59TO LET FOLKS KNOW WHAT

31:01ORGANIZATIONS MIGHT BE OPEN FOR

31:02REFERRALS.

31:02AND SO I'M HAPPY TO TO CONNECT

31:04WITH YOU ALL.

31:05UM, ONCE THAT IS AVAILABLE

31:07LATER THIS YEAR.

31:07THANK YOU.

31:08>> YEAH.

31:11HERE, HERE.

31:13YOU HAVE SIX MINUTES.

31:17THANK YOU.

31:18THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

31:20AND IT'S GREAT TO SEE ALL THE

31:22WORK THAT'S COMING OUT OF MOYA.

31:24SO I'M REALLY, UH, GRATEFUL AND

31:28,UM, I JUST HAVE A FEW

31:30QUESTIONS.

31:30I'M CURIOUS ABOUT HOW MANY

31:32ORGANIZATIONS YOU KNOW, THROUGH

31:34SOME OF THE GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

31:35.

31:36ARE WE FUNDING AND SUPPORTING?

31:40UM, SO FOR THE LEGAL AID GRANT

31:41I CAN GET YOU THE.

31:43>> THE.

31:43FINAL NUMBER FROM LAST YEAR BUT

31:45I BELIEVE IT WAS AROUND 20 ISH

31:46.

31:46UM, AND THOSE ARE VARYING POTS

31:48OF FUNDING.

31:49SO WE WERE FUNDING UM

31:50ORGANIZATIONS THAT WERE DOING

31:51BOTH INFORMATION UM SHARING

31:53LIKE KNOW YOUR RIGHTS COURT

31:55ACCOMPANIMENT AS WELL AS

31:57REPRESENTATION UM FOR LAST

31:59YEAR'S UM WE EVEN WHILE BEING

32:00MENTAL HEALTH WORKER IT WAS

32:01AROUND 30.

32:02ORGANIZATIONS AND WE.

32:04ANTICIPATE WITH THE FUNDING

32:05THAT WE HAVE WHICH IS ABOUT

32:07EQUAL THAT WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO

32:08FUND AROUND THE SAME AMOUNT.

32:10>> OF ORGANIZATIONS THIS YEAR.

32:11AND WHAT.

32:11>> ABOUT SAFETY NET LIKE FOOD

32:14ACCESS.

32:14UH.

32:15>> STIPENDS FOR HOUSING?

32:16YEAH.

32:17>> SO LAST YEAR WE DID HAVE OUR

32:19,UM, MUTUAL AID GRANTS.

32:21UM.

32:22>> AND.

32:22THIS YEAR IN CONSULTATION WITH

32:24ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE UNITED

32:25WAY TBF THAT IS REALLY UM THE

32:28WORK THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO

32:29UPLIFT AND SO WE DECIDED TO

32:31ENSURE THAT WE COULD REALLY

32:32ROBUSTLY FUND THE LEGAL AID

32:34WORK WHICH THEY ARE NOT UM,

32:36ABLE TO FUND AT THIS TIME THE

32:37MENTAL HEALTH WORK.

32:38SO REALLY WORKING TOGETHER IN

32:40PARTNERSHIP TO UM DETERMINE

32:42WHERE THEIR FUNDING IS BEST

32:43PLACE AND WHERE OUR FUNDING IS

32:44BEST PLACED.

32:45THAT'S GOOD.

32:46AND WHAT ABOUT THE BOSTON

32:47PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION?

32:49THAT'S A CITY RESOURCE

32:53ESPECIALLY AROUND MENTAL HEALTH

32:55AND WELLNESS OR WHAT DOES THAT

32:56LOOK LIKE IN TERMS

32:57OF PARTNERSHIP?

32:57YEAH.

32:58>> SO I ACTUALLY UM OUR OFFICE

33:00HAS A MONTHLY MEETING WITH

33:01THEIR UM, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

33:03DEPARTMENT.

33:04UM, SOME FOLKS THAT ARE FOCUS

33:05SPECIFICALLY ON UH, WORK IN THE

33:07COMMUNITY.

33:08UM, AND SO WE REGULARLY

33:10COALESCE AROUND CONCERNS THAT

33:11THEY'RE SEEING CONCERNS THAT

33:12WE'RE SEEING UM, AND

33:14BRAINSTORMING TOGETHER.

33:15SO THEY ACTUALLY PUT TOGETHER A

33:17RESOURCE GUIDE FOR US, UM, THAT

33:19WE HAVE MADE AVAILABLE THAT

33:20THEY HAVE MADE AVAILABLE AND

33:21WE'RE WORKING WITH THEM THIS

33:22YEAR AS A COMPLEMENT TO OUR

33:24WEAVING WELL-BEING PROGRAM.

33:25HOW CAN WE CONTINUE TO TRAIN UP

33:28FOLKS, UM, SO THAT THEY CAN

33:30ALSO DELIVER MENTAL HEALTH

33:31SERVICES?

33:32SO THAT'S KIND OF A SEPARATE

33:33PROJECT ASIDE FROM GRANT

33:35FUNDING THAT WE'RE PURSUING

33:36WITH THEM.

33:38AND WHAT UM, ROLE IF ANY IN ON

33:42ANY TYPE OF COMMUNICATION WITH

33:46UM THE OFFICE OF WORKFORCE

33:47DEVELOPMENT LIKE GIVEN THE FACT

33:49THAT SO MANY FOLKS ARE LOSING

33:51THEIR STATUS AND ARE ABLE TO

33:52WORK.

33:53WHAT IF ANY CONVERSATIONS HAVE

33:55BEEN THAT YOU.

33:56I'VE BEEN HAVING.

33:57>> WITH OUR CITY ENFORCE

33:59DEVELOPMENT?

34:00YES.

34:00>> SO UM.

34:01THOSE ARE THAT'S UH, ANOTHER

34:02ONE OF THE MAIN.

34:03DEPARTMENTS THAT WE'VE BEEN

34:04FOCUSED UM.

34:05ON PARTNERING WITH PARTICULARLY

34:07ON WORKERS RIGHTS.

34:08SO AGAIN, I THINK OUR OFFICE

34:10TAKES THIS STANDPOINT WE WANT

34:11TO MAKE SURE THAT FOLKS KNOW

34:12THEIR.

34:13RIGHTS AND THEN ALSO HAVE

34:14ACCESS TO RESOURCES.

34:15SO REALLY CONNECTING WITH THE

34:16WORKER EMPOWERMENT CABINET AND

34:18MAKING SURE THAT WORKERS KNOW

34:19THEIR RIGHTS, MAKING SURE THAT

34:21EMPLOYERS KNOW THEIR RIGHTS AND

34:22RESPONSIBILITIES.

34:23UM AND.

34:24>> THEN EXPLORING OPPORTUNITIES

34:25SUCH AS ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS

34:26PATHWAYS FOR FOLKS.

34:28SO THOSE ARE ONGOING

34:29CONVERSATIONS.

34:30>> ME A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT

34:31THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP BECAUSE I

34:32KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THE

34:33NEIGHBORHOODS JOBS TRUST WE'VE

34:35BEEN ABLE TO BE CREATIVE IN

34:38TERMS OF SOME WORKFORCE

34:39DEVELOPMENT STIPENDS THAT WE'VE

34:40BEEN ABLE TO PROVIDE TO FOLKS,

34:42UM, AND PROGRAMING.

34:45YEAH.

34:46>> SO UM OUR OFFICE

34:47UNFORTUNATELY.

34:47CANNOT PROVIDE STIPENDS JUST

34:48BECAUSE OF THE OPERATING BUDGET

34:50FUND, BUT WE'RE TRYING TO

34:51FIGURE OUT WAYS THAT WE CAN

34:53PARTNER WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS

34:56TO ENHANCE ACCESS AND AWARENESS

34:57OF WORKER OWNED COOPERATIVES.

34:58HOW CAN FOLKS BE WORKER OWNERS

35:01?

35:01UM, SO THAT IS ANOTHER AREA

35:03THAT WE'RE PARTNERING WITH BOTH

35:04COMMUNITY AND DEPARTMENT ON.

35:06UM I'M HAPPY TO HEAR THAT NOW

35:09UM JUST TWO MORE QUESTIONS.

35:11>> YEAH, SURE.

35:12ONE IS UH, SPECIFICALLY AROUND

35:14THE RETURN ON THOSE INVESTMENTS

35:15LIKE SOME OF THE ORGANIZATIONS

35:17THAT YOU'VE BEEN WORKING WITH

35:18YOU MENTIONED I THINK 30 OR SO,

35:20UM, IN THE LEGAL SPACE AND AND

35:24ALSO IN MENTAL HEALTH HIGH

35:26LEVEL, YOU KNOW, WHAT TYPE

35:29OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE,

35:30CAPACITY BUILDING, ONGOING

35:31COMMUNICATION DO YOU HAVE WITH

35:32THESE ORGANIZATIONS?

35:35AND WHEN YOU HEAR WHAT YOU WHAT

35:38THEY HAVE TO SHARE, HOW ARE YOU

35:40ADAPTING KIND OF YOUR SERVICE

35:42DELIVERABLES AND RFP?

35:44SURE.

35:45>> UM SO FOR RETURN ON.

35:46INVESTMENT, UM, WE'RE ACTUALLY

35:48IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING THOSE

35:50FINAL REPORTS FROM THIS PAST

35:51FISCAL.

35:52YEAR FROM THE ORGANIZATION.

35:53SO WE'RE HAPPY TO GET BACK TO

35:55YOU WITH, YOU KNOW, SOME MORE

35:56HIGH LEVEL DETAILS.

35:57>> ON WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.

35:59UM.

35:59BUT I WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, WE

36:01REALLY CLOSELY WORK WITH OUR

36:03ORGANIZATIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT

36:05THEY UM, HAVE SUPPORT BOTH

36:06THROUGH THE.

36:07GRANT APPLICATION PROCESS.

36:08UM, WE.

36:09>> KNOW THAT A LOT OF OUR.

36:10ORGANIZATIONS ARE.

36:11NEWER OR MAYBE THEY DON'T HAVE

36:12A UM A GRANT DEVELOPMENT PERSON

36:15SO REALLY PROVIDING THAT

36:16TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.

36:16SO THAT WAY.

36:17WE'RE NOT OVERLOOKING REALLY.

36:19>> STRONG APPLICATIONS JUST

36:20BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THAT

36:21THAT GRANT WRITING CAPACITY.

36:23SO THAT'S ONE THING THAT WE

36:24OFFER AT THE BEGINNING TO MAKE

36:25SURE THAT FOLKS WHO ARE REALLY

36:27GOOD FITS FOR THE APPLICATION

36:28CAN ACTUALLY APPLY.

36:29UM, AND THEN MYSELF AND MY

36:31COLLEAGUE HANNAH HAVE

36:32CONVERSATIONS WITH

36:33ORGANIZATIONS.

36:34TO KICK.

36:35>> OFF THEIR THEIR GRANT

36:35PERIOD.

36:36SO MAKING SURE THAT THEY KNOW

36:37THAT WE'RE HERE FOR THEM

36:39THROUGHOUT THE GRANT PERIOD IF

36:40THEY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.

36:42UM AND THEN WE.

36:43ALWAYS DO A RETROSPECTIVE.

36:44SO I ACTUALLY MAYBE TWO MONTHS

36:46AGO OR A MONTH AGO MET WITH THE

36:48ORGANIZATIONS THAT RECEIVED

36:49WELL-BEING FUNDING.

36:50ASK THEM WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED?

36:52WHAT COULD BE BETTER?

36:53WHAT CAN WE IMPROVE?

36:54UM AND SO WE USED A LOT OF THAT

36:56FEEDBACK TO INFORM THIS

36:57UPCOMING CYCLE OF THE GRANT.

36:59AND WITH THAT INFORMATION.

37:01UM, SO I UM I HAVE THAT.

37:03INFORMATION IN MY OWN NOTES BUT

37:05I WOULD SAY UM.

37:05AND JUST IN TERMS OF.

37:06WEAVING MORE BEANS IMPACTS ON.

37:08>> OUR WEBSITE, UM.

37:10WE RIGOROUSLY UH, EVALUATED THE

37:11FIRST THREE YEARS OF THE

37:13PROGRAM.

37:13SO I'M.

37:13>> PROUD TO SAY THIS IS THE

37:14SIXTH YEAR UM.

37:15AND YOU CAN FIND THE REPORTS

37:16ABOUT THE COMMUNITY IMPACTS HOW

37:18IT IMPACTED WELL-BEING,

37:20BELONGING, COMMUNITY

37:21EMPOWERMENT, JUST HAVING A

37:22PLACE TO GO WHERE SOMEONE

37:23SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE AND

37:24UNDERSTANDS YOUR CULTURE.

37:25SO I'M HAPPY TO TO SHARE THOSE

37:26THREE.

37:27REPORTS AS WELL WITH YOU ALL.

37:28I'M HAPPY I'M HAPPY TO SEE THAT

37:30AND YOU KNOW BECAUSE I'M GOING

37:31TO HAVE TO BE LEAVING EARLY.

37:32I JUST I WANTED TO JUST ALSO

37:34NOTE THAT UM, PASTOR HAMA SO.

37:37UH WE WORKED A FEW YEARS AGO ON

37:40UH ON A WELLNESS PROGRAM FOR

37:42RECENT ARRIVALS SPECIFICALLY TO

37:44HELP YOUNG PEOPLE ACCLIMATE TO

37:46THE CULTURE.

37:47MANY OF THEM HAVE EXPERIENCED

37:48TRAUMA JUST TO GET HERE.

37:50AND SO IT'S REALLY HARD FOR

37:52THEM TO ACCESS THE CURRICULUM

37:54WHEN THEY HAVE SO MUCH GOING

37:55ON.

37:55AND SO THEY CREATED AN

37:57AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM WHERE THEY

37:59WERE ABLE TO UM, PROVIDE NOT

38:00JUST ACADEMIC BUT ALSO

38:02EMOTIONAL UM AND MENTAL

38:05WELLBEING SUPPORT.

38:05SO I THINK THAT THE

38:06INTERSECTION IS THAT ESPECIALLY

38:07WITH OUR BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS,

38:10UM, IS SOMETHING THAT I'M

38:11REALLY EXCITED AND INTERESTED

38:12IN LEARNING MORE ABOUT AND I

38:13JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU.

38:14I'M NOT GOING TO HOLD ANYONE

38:15HOSTAGE BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE

38:16OTHER SPEAKERS BUT THANK YOU

38:17FOR YOUR WORK.

38:18THANK YOU.

38:18THANK YOU.

38:19>> COUNCILMEMBER HERE.

38:20UH, COURTNEY, I'VE GOT A FEW

38:22QUESTIONS OF THE 5790.

38:26FOLKS AND.

38:28WE KNOW THAT.

38:29UH, AFFECTED.

38:31BY THE TPS, WE KNOW HOW MANY

38:34LOST THEIR ACTUAL STATUS.

38:37UM, WE DON'T HAVE THAT NUMBER.

38:39>> IT IS.

38:40CHALLENGING.

38:40>> RIGHT, TO GET THAT

38:42INFORMATION.

38:42UM, JUST BECAUSE FOLKS MAY FEEL

38:44UNCOMFORTABLE.

38:44WITH.

38:45>> YOU KNOW, PROVIDING THAT

38:46INFORMATION, IT IS SOMETHING

38:47THAT IS NOT TYPICALLY, UM,

38:49TYPICALLY COLLECTED.

38:52SO WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY HAVE

38:53ANOTHER STATUS OR.

38:54NO, UNFORTUNATELY.

38:56>> WE DON'T.

38:56BUT THAT IS WHY LEGAL

38:57REPRESENTATION AND ACCESS TO

38:59CONSULTATION IS SO IMPORTANT

39:00AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT OUR.

39:02OFFICE ALONG WITH, YOU KNOW,

39:04COUNCILOR.

39:04LOUIJEUNE OFFICE AND.

39:05>> OTHER FOLKS WERE REALLY

39:06MAKING SURE IN THE LEAD UP TO

39:08THE POTENTIAL TERMINATION THAT

39:09PEOPLE.

39:10>> WERE.

39:10HAVING ACCESS TO AN ATTORNEY TO

39:13DETERMINE IF THERE WAS AN.

39:14ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY.

39:15>> FOR THEM.

39:15AND I'VE HEARD OVER AND OVER

39:17ABOUT.

39:17THE LACK.

39:18OF LEGAL COUNCILOR.

39:19HAVE YOU TALKED IT OUT TO THE

39:21BLACK.

39:21WOMEN'S ATTORNEY TO SEE IF THEY

39:24CAN HELP WITH.

39:25THE PRO BONO SERVICE?

39:28UM, WE HAVE NOT.

39:29>> HAD THAT OPPORTUNITY BUT I

39:30WOULD LOVE TO TO CONNECT WITH

39:30YOU AND YOUR.

39:31>> TEAM ABOUT THAT.

39:32AS BLACK LAWYERS.

39:34UH.

39:35>> THAT MAY BE HELPFUL.

39:36UH, AND.

39:37AND WE CAN TALK AND I CAN MAKE

39:40A.

39:40CONTACT AND JUST SEE BECAUSE.

39:44I THINK THEY MAY BE ABLE TO BE

39:45HELPFUL.

39:47YES, THAT WOULD.

39:48BE WONDERFUL.

39:49I THINK UM, IN OUR OFFICE IN

39:50PARTICULAR WE ARE LOOKING FOR

39:52FOLKS WITH.

39:52UM IMMIGRATION EXPERIENCE BUT

39:54THERE IS ALSO THE.

39:55STATEWIDE HABEAS PROJECT.

39:56UM, WHICH MAYBE SOME OTHER

39:58FOLKS CAN TALK ABOUT WHERE

39:59THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES.

40:01UM.

40:01>> FOR FOLKS WHO MAYBE DO NOT

40:02HAVE THE IMMIGRATION.

40:04EXPERIENCE TO ALSO CONTRIBUTE

40:06TO THE LEGAL.

40:07LANDSCAPE AND PREVENT.

40:08FOLKS UM, FROM GETTING UH,

40:10MOVED FROM ONE FACILITY, UM,

40:12OUTSIDE OF THE STATE.

40:13SO I THINK THERE ARE A FEW

40:15OPPORTUNITIES FOR ATTORNEYS

40:16OF ALL SHAPES AND ALL

40:17EXPERIENCES TO GET.

40:18PLUGGED IN TO THIS WORK.

40:19I WOULD LOVE TO CONTINUE A

40:20CONVERSATION.

40:21YESTERDAY I WAS TALKING WITH

40:22SOME FOLKS.

40:22ABOUT THE NUMBER UH.

40:25UM PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN DETAINED

40:27OR ARRESTED THEY MENTIONED THE

40:29NUMBER 40 CAME UP.

40:30DO YOU HAVE ANY DATA ON THE

40:32NUMBER.

40:33OF FOLKS WHO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED

40:34OR DETAINED.

40:36AND IF NOT YOU CAN YES.

40:40WE DON'T UM, I CAN.

40:41CERTAINLY TRY TO GET THAT

40:42INFORMATION FOR YOU IF YOU HAVE

40:43A.

40:44SPECIFIC TIME PERIOD OR.

40:45>> TIME FRAME THAT YOU'RE

40:46LOOKING FOR THAT WOULD HELP US

40:48KIND OF NARROW THAT.

40:49>> DOWN SINCE THE SUPREME COURT

40:50CASE.

40:50SINCE THE CASE.

40:51OKAY GREAT.

40:52WE'RE HAPPY TO HAVE.

40:53UM YEAH YEAH.

40:54AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE THAT

40:56INFORMATION.

40:57UH.

40:58>> ARE WE RECEIVING ANY

41:01INFORMATION ABOUT THAT.

41:02ICE ACTIVITY IN BOSTON?

41:04UM, SO OUR OFFICE IS.

41:06REALLY, UM, CONNECTED WITH A

41:08LOT.

41:08>> OF THE, UM, ICE WATCH HUBS.

41:11>> SO MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE

41:13AWARE WHEN THERE ARE, UM, YOU

41:15KNOW, WHEN THERE IS ICE

41:16ACTIVITY, UM, LOCALLY WE ARE

41:19SEEING PARTICULARLY AT OUR.

41:20>> UH, COURTHOUSES UM.

41:21PARTICULARLY IN.

41:22>> EAST BOSTON.

41:22SO THERE HAS.

41:23>> BEEN A LOT OF WORK UM DONE

41:25BY THE COMMUNITY THERE TO

41:26SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

41:28UM, WE'RE.

41:29>> SEEING A LOT OF ACTIVITY

41:30KIND OF IN THE SUBURBS AS WE

41:31SAW THE OTHER.

41:32>> DAY IN NEW BEDFORD AS WELL.

41:34UM, PARTICULARLY SEEING IT UM.

41:36IT AT OUR COURTHOUSES.

41:37>> RIGHT.

41:37SO DOES THE CITY.

41:38>> HAVE SOME KIND OF MECHANISM

41:40TO TRACK.

41:41>> THE.

41:41ARREST OR DETENTIONS IN PLACE?

41:44UM, UNFORTUNATELY NOT AT THIS

41:45TIME.

41:46>> THAT INFORMATION CAN ALSO BE

41:47REALLY CHALLENGING AND.

41:48THAT'S WHY.

41:49>> YOU.

41:49KNOW, OF COURSE MAYOR WU, UM,

41:50PUT FORWARD THE EXECUTIVE ORDER

41:52FOR TRANSPARENCY TO ENSURE THAT

41:55WE COULD BE MAKING THESE BEST

41:57EFFORTS TO GET THAT INFORMATION

41:58FROM THE.

41:59FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

42:00AND WHAT ARE THE BEST EFFORTS.

42:01TO DATE?

42:02UM, I CAN CERTAINLY GET

42:03INFORMATION ON THAT.

42:04THAT WOULD BE THE LEGAL

42:05DEPARTMENT THAT HAS BEEN

42:07FILING.

42:07>> THESE FOI REQUESTS, BUT WE.

42:08CAN CERTAINLY UM, CHECK.

42:10>> IN.

42:10WITH THEM IF.

42:11>> THERE'S NOT.

42:11SOME WAY OF TRACKING.

42:12>> THE ARREST.

42:14OR DETENTION.

42:15COURTNEY, YOU MAY WANT TO THINK

42:16ABOUT TRYING.

42:17>> TO.

42:17ESTABLISH SOME.

42:18WAY OF TRYING TO TRACK.

42:20THAT INFORMATION.

42:23SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE.

42:24>> SOME.

42:24IDEA, UM, THE.

42:25NUMBER OF FOLKS THAT ARE.

42:27BEING ARRESTED OR DETAINED.

42:32YES, I APPRECIATE THAT.

42:34UM THANK YOU.

42:35THANK AND SO.

42:38IN JULY.

42:39>> 27TH.

42:40JULY 27TH THE PRESENTATION.

42:44UM, IDENTIFIES HOUSING.

42:45AND SECURITY.

42:46BENEFITS IN.

42:48>> ROOM.

42:48EDUCATION DISRUPTIONS.

42:49FAMILY SUPPORT.

42:51SCAMS INCREASE ACTIVITY.

42:52DO WE HAVE ANY DATA OR

42:54INFORMATION.

42:55ON WHAT THE CITY IS SEEING WITH

42:57REGARD TO THESE FINDINGS?

43:01UM WE DON'T HAVE ANY.

43:02SPECIFIC DATA.

43:03IT'S MORE.

43:05ANECDOTAL FROM WHAT WE'RE

43:05HEARING VIA CONSTITUENTS

43:07REACHING OUT TO OUR.

43:08UP TO OUR OFFICE TO.

43:09COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE OFFICE TO

43:10OTHER DEPARTMENTS WHO ARE THEN

43:12REFERRING THEIR CONSTITUENTS TO

43:14US.

43:14BECAUSE OUR OFFICE.

43:15IS SO WELL KNOWN FOR OUR

43:18IMMIGRATION CONSULTATIONS.

43:19THAT IS PRIMARILY MOST OF THE

43:21REQUESTS THAT WE SEE.

43:22UM, I'M SURE DOCTOR GABEL AND

43:24MORRONE AND FOLKS.

43:25ON THE PANEL CAN SPEAK MORE TO

43:27THE NUMBERS OF WHAT THEY'RE

43:28SEEING ON THE FRONT LINES.

43:30UM, BUT WE.

43:30ARE SEEING A VAST PERCENTAGE

43:32OF OUR FOLKS REALLY IN NEED

43:34OF LEGAL.

43:35REPRESENTATION.

43:36>> UM, THAT CONSULTATION TO

43:37DETERMINE WHAT ALTERNATIVE

43:38PATHWAYS TO STATUS THEY MIGHT

43:40HAVE AND THEN THAT

43:42REPRESENTATION POTENTIALLY IN

43:43AN ASYLUM HEARING IN FRONT OF A

43:45JUDGE, UM.

43:46AND SO.

43:46>> ON AND SO FORTH.

43:47SO I WOULD SAY.

43:49ABOUT 25% OF THE CALLS.

43:50THAT WE'VE BEEN RECEIVING

43:52RECENTLY HAVE BEEN SPECIFICALLY

43:54FROM UH, HAITIAN TPS HOLDERS.

43:56AND THAT'S WHY.

43:57>> WE'VE BEEN REALLY TRYING TO

43:59STRENGTHEN OUR REFERRAL NETWORK

44:00.

44:01SO THAT WAY WE CAN MAKE SURE

44:02WHEN SOMEBODY WAS CALLING US

44:04AND SAID I HAVE UH I'M.

44:06>> FROM.

44:06HAITI, I HAVE TPS, WE KNOW

44:08EXACTLY WHERE TO.

44:09REFER THEM TO AND DO THAT.

44:11>> WARM HANDOFF.

44:11DO YOU HAVE THE NUMBER AND DATA

44:13ON HOW MANY PEOPLE THE TWICE

44:16MONTHLY.

44:17CONSULTATIONS ACTUALLY SERVE?

44:20YES WE CAN CERTAINLY.

44:20GET THAT INFORMATION TO YOU.

44:22I'D SAY WE SERVE.

44:24PROBABLY FROM 35 TO.

44:27>> 40.

44:27INDIVIDUALS.

44:28>> UM EVERY TIME.

44:30WE DON'T NECESSARILY.

44:31DIG IN AND ALWAYS.

44:33ASK PEOPLE.

44:34WHICH COUNTRY ARE YOU FROM?

44:35RIGHT.

44:36UM WE TRY TO KEEP A SEMBLANCE

44:38OF CONFIDENTIALITY THERE.

44:39UM, SO I CAN SAY THAT ON

44:41AVERAGE WE SUPPORT AROUND 35 TO

44:4340 FOLKS.

44:44PER CONSULTATION.

44:45COMPARED WITH DEMAND.

44:47THERE'S ALWAYS.

44:48GOING TO BE MORE MORE DEMAND

44:49THAN UNFORTUNATELY THERE IS

44:51SPACE.

44:52UM AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE YOU

44:53KNOW, THROUGH OUR.

44:54IMMIGRATION UM, OUR IMMIGRATION

44:56.

44:56GRANT, WE'RE MAKING SURE THAT

44:57WE'RE PROVIDING GRANT FUNDING

44:58FOR ALL THESE DIFFERENT ASPECTS

45:00.

45:01>> SO HOW DO WE SUPPORT

45:02ORGANIZATIONS.

45:02>> THAT ARE.

45:03DOING KNOW YOUR RIGHTS

45:04CAMPAIGNS.

45:05>> FAMILY PREPAREDNESS

45:05CAMPAIGNS?

45:06HOW ARE WE SUPPORTING

45:07ORGANIZATIONS TO MEET THAT NEED

45:09.

45:09FOR CONSULTATIONS?

45:11>> AND THEN THE.

45:12THIRD BUCKET OF REPRESENTATION

45:14.

45:14AND WHAT ABOUT WAIT TIMES.

45:18UH WAIT.

45:18TIMES FOR.

45:19CONSULTATIONS OR WAIT.

45:21TIMES FOR.

45:22SEEKING LEGAL ASSISTANCE?

45:25I THINK IT CAN VARY DEPENDING

45:26ON THE TYPE OF.

45:27ASSISTANCE THAT SOMEONE.

45:28>> IS.

45:29LOOKING FOR.

45:29UM, AS COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE SAID

45:31THAT THE HOTLINE UM CURRENTLY

45:33HAS A SIX.

45:33>> MONTH.

45:34WAITLIST FOR REALLY.

45:35URGENT UM.

45:37LIKE DEPORTATION TYPE CASES.

45:39OUR CONSULTATIONS UM.

45:41>> WE DO HAVE A LOT OF.

45:43UH ROOM.

45:44TYPICALLY SO PLEASE FEEL FREE

45:45TO CONNECT WITH US DIRECTLY IF

45:47THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE

45:48IN NEED OF A CONSULTATION.

45:49UM, AND THEN WE WORK CLOSELY

45:51WITH OTHER PROVIDERS TO MAKE

45:52SURE THAT UM AGAIN, WE CAN TRY

45:55TO SUPPORT PEOPLE WITH A DIRECT

45:56REFERRAL.

45:57BUT IT.

45:58>> IS CHALLENGING.

45:59AND IN.

45:59>> YOUR PRESENTATION YOU TALKED

46:00A LITTLE.

46:01>> BIT.

46:01A LITTLE BIT.

46:01ABOUT HOUSING INSECURITY AND

46:03HOW MANY FAMILIES ARE WE AWARE

46:06OF THAT HAVE.

46:06ALREADY LOST HOUSING OR

46:10RETURNED TO SHELTER AS A RESULT

46:11OF.

46:12LOSING THEIR TPS?

46:14WE WE DON'T HAVE THAT EXACT

46:15NUMBER.

46:15UM.

46:16BECAUSE AGAIN I THINK.

46:17THE STATUS PIECE CAN BE A

46:19LITTLE BIT COMPLICATED AND

46:20FOLKS.

46:21>> ARE EXPERIENCING HOUSING

46:23INSECURITY FOR MANY DIFFERENT

46:24REASONS.

46:24UM.

46:25>> SO I DON'T KNOW UM IF THE

46:27STATE HAS.

46:27>> THAT NUMBER.

46:28UM BUT THAT IS SOMETHING YEAH

46:29I.

46:29>> DIDN'T THINK SO.

46:31BY THAT WAY.

46:31YES.

46:32>> EXACTLY WHAT AND WHAT

46:35HAPPENS ONCE A FOREIGN TPS.

46:37HOLDER LOSES THEIR EMPLOYMENT?

46:40WHAT HAPPENS HOW.

46:41>> DO.

46:42WE SERVICE.

46:42THEM WITH LET'S SAY THEY.

46:45HAVE A RENT ISSUE.

46:45HOW DO WE.

46:46SERVICE THEM?

46:47DO WE SEND.

46:48>> THEM RIGHT TO HOUSING.

46:49SO OUR OFFICE HAS BEEN.

46:50PARTNERING WITH THE OFFICE OF.

46:51HOUSING TO MAKE SURE THAT

46:53FIRST.

46:53>> AND FOREMOST.

46:54>> THAT.

46:54THE PROCESS.

46:55>> THAT THE LANDLORD IS

46:56FOLLOWING IS.

46:57ACCURATE AND LEGAL.

46:59UM AND SO THAT IS THE FIRST

47:00STEP OF THE PROCESS FOR US

47:01MAKING SURE THAT SOMEONE IS.

47:02ACTUALLY UM LEGALLY BEING

47:04EVICTED AND THEN WE ARE TRYING

47:06TO WORK REALLY CLOSELY WITH THE

47:07STATE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE

47:08REDUCING ANY OF THOSE BARRIERS

47:11TO REENTRY INTO THE SHELTER

47:12SYSTEM.

47:13AND THAT.

47:14>> THOSE SUPPORTS ARE EXISTING

47:15FOR FOLKS.

47:15>> AND WHAT IF THEY'RE NO

47:16LONGER ELIGIBLE.

47:17FOR THE SAFETY NET PROGRAM?

47:19UM, ARE YOU REFERRING TO

47:21HOUSING?

47:22YES.

47:23>> SO YEAH.

47:23SO WE ARE UM FORTUNATELY, UM.

47:26MANY OF OUR HAITIAN COMMUNITY

47:27MEMBERS ARE STILL ELIGIBLE AS.

47:29CUBAN HAITIAN ENTRANTS AND.

47:31>> ARE ELIGIBLE TO ACCESS.

47:32DIFFERENT TYPES OF BENEFITS.

47:33SO THAT IS WHY WE'RE MAKING

47:34SURE WITH THE STATE THAT THERE

47:36IS A PATHWAY FOR.

47:38REENTRY INTO.

47:38THE SHELTER.

47:39SYSTEM AND THEN THAT

47:40SUPPORTIVE.

47:41SYSTEM FOR THEM.

47:42>> SO WHAT ARE YOU SPECIFICALLY

47:43ASKING.

47:43>> THE.

47:44STATE TO MAKE SURE THAT.

47:45THEY HAVE A GOOD UM,

47:47UNDERSTANDING OF THE.

47:48CHALLENGES THAT OUR.

47:50COMMUNITY MEMBERS MIGHT BE

47:51FACING AT THIS TIME AND MAKING

47:53SURE THAT, UM, THERE'S ADEQUATE

47:55STAFFING TO SUPPORT THEM THAT

47:57UM, THERE IS NOT UH, BURDENSOME

48:00PAPERWORK FOR REENTRY AND THAT

48:02THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THOSE

48:04CHALLENGES THAT FOLKS MIGHT BE

48:05FACING AND THAT WE HAVE AN

48:06ADEQUATE.

48:06SHELTER SYSTEM TO SUPPORT THESE

48:08FAMILIES.

48:08>> AND SO HAVE WE.

48:09>> BEEN GIVEN ADDITIONAL

48:10RESOURCES FROM THE

48:11COMMONWEALTH.

48:12AS A RESULT OF.

48:13THE CONVERSATIONS.

48:14AND THE REAL NEED.

48:17?

48:17>> NOT TO MY UNDERSTANDING.

48:18THAT COULD.

48:19>> BE A QUESTION POTENTIALLY

48:20FOR THE OFFICE.

48:21>> OF HOUSING UM.

48:21THAT THOSE.

48:22RESOURCES WOULD NOT.

48:23>> HAVE COME TO OUR.

48:24OFFICE REGARDLESS.

48:25CAN YOU CHECK.

48:26WITH SHEILA DILLON.

48:28AND JUST SEE EXACTLY NUMBER ONE

48:32WHAT.

48:33RESOURCES ARE.

48:34>> NEEDED AND NUMBER TWO, IF

48:36THEY'RE GETTING ADDITIONAL.

48:37RESOURCES FROM THE STATE.

48:39FOR HOUSING.

48:40RIGHT.

48:42>> THANK YOU.

48:44AND I THINK THAT'S.

48:46ALL THE QUESTIONS I HAVE.

48:48THANK YOU.

48:49>> THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

48:51UH SO WEATHER.

48:53OH GOOD MORNING COUNCIL WEBER

48:54I.

48:55LIKE TO.

48:55ACKNOWLEDGE THE PRESENCE

48:56OF COUNCIL.

48:57WHEREVER I DID NOT.

48:58SEE YOU.

49:00I STILL I GAVE.

49:01THE COUNCIL SIX MINUTES.

49:03FOR AN OPENING STATEMENT.

49:04COUNCIL HERE.

49:06UH, THOUGHT IT SHOULD BE TWO

49:07MINUTES.

49:07I'LL GIVE YOU TWO MINUTES.

49:10>> FOR OPENING STATEMENT AND IF

49:11YOU WANT.

49:11WITH QUESTIONS PLEASE.

49:16AND IF YOU WANT.

49:17SIX MINUTES FOR QUESTION.

49:19YOU CAN.

49:19>> HAVE SIX MINUTES FOR

49:20QUESTIONS.

49:20NO YOU.

49:22THANK YOU VERY MUCH CHAIR AND.

49:24>> I AM BEING AWFULLY LIBERAL

49:25TO YOU.

49:26OH YEAH AND.

49:27OKAY YOU'D LIKE ME TO KEEP THIS

49:29UH, IN THE BACK OF MY MIND.

49:30UH, NEXT IF RULES ARE REVERSED.

49:33YEAH, WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT.

49:37UM UH I GUESS SO I MAYBE I'M

49:41SURE SOMEBODY ASKED US ALREADY

49:43JUST YOU KNOW, WHAT'S YOUR

49:44ADVICE FOR US WHEN WE GET A

49:46CALL?

49:47UM, YOU KNOW, FROM A FROM A

49:49FAMILY FROM SOMEBODY WHO'S YOU

49:52JUST WHO KNOWS SOMEBODY I LIVE

49:55.

49:55LIKE.

49:56>> YOU KNOW, HOW WOULD YOU

49:57GIVEN YOUR, YOU KNOW, UH,

50:01EXPERIENCE AND WHAT YOU'RE

50:02SEEING ACROSS THE CITY IN THE

50:03COUNTRY.

50:04WHAT SHOULD WE DO WHEN WE GET

50:06THAT PHONE CALL FROM EITHER

50:08SOMEBODY WHO'S LOST THEIR

50:09STATUS OR OR SOMEBODY WHO JUST

50:11HAPPENS TO KNOW SOMEBODY WHO

50:13DID?

50:14UM, YEAH.

50:16UM.

50:17>> SO OUR OFFICE, UM, HAS THREE

50:19HAITIAN.

50:20CREOLE SPEAKERS ON STAFF

50:21SPECIFICALLY DEDICATED TO OUR

50:23CONSTITUENT.

50:23SERVICES WORK.

50:24UM, WE ALSO HAVE.

50:26FOUR ADDITIONAL FOLKS MYSELF

50:28INCLUDED THAT.

50:29>> SPEAK.

50:29SPANISH AND.

50:30>> SO WE'RE ALWAYS ABLE TO.

50:31PICK UP THE.

50:32>> PHONE.

50:33>> COME MEET SOMEONE IN PERSON

50:34,HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS.

50:36I WAS JUST TROUBLESHOOTING UM,

50:38SOMEONE'S CASE YESTERDAY WHERE

50:39UNFORTUNATELY THEY WENT TO

50:41BURLINGTON FOR THEIR CHECK IN

50:42AND THEY WERE DETAINED.

50:43SO OUR OFFICE IS ALWAYS

50:45AVAILABLE.

50:46>> FOR CONSULTATION.

50:47UM, I KNOW WE HAD A REALLY

50:48LOVELY CONVERSATION A FEW

50:50MONTHS AGO WITH STAFF FROM YOUR

50:52TEAMS.

50:52UM.

50:53>> AROUND THOSE BEST.

50:53PRACTICES IN THOSE SUPPORTS.

50:55SO I.

50:56>> AM UH OUR TEAM.

50:57>> IS WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO

50:58HAVE THAT.

50:58CONVERSATION AGAIN.

50:59>> TO HELP YOU ALL YOU KNOW

51:00REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW TO.

51:02TRIAGE MAYBE THE CASE.

51:03>> AND THEN REFER IT OVER TO.

51:04US FOR FURTHER SUPPORT.

51:05UM, AND THEN I GUESS WHAT SO

51:09WHAT CAN WE TELL PEOPLE TO

51:10EXPECT SO THEY WILL REFER THEM

51:12TO YOU AND THEN UH, I GUESS

51:15LIKE WHAT ARE THIS KIND

51:18OF THINGS IN PLACE?

51:19UH, THE IS IS THERE ANY HOPE?

51:22YOU KNOW, I MEAN WHAT CAN

51:25PEOPLE EXPECT TO HAPPEN ONCE

51:26THEY'VE THEY'VE GONE THROUGH.

51:28THROUGH YOUR OFFICE?

51:29YEAH.

51:30>> SO WE REALLY TRIED TO UM,

51:32BOTH PROVIDE SOME HOPE BUT ALSO

51:34SET REALISTIC.

51:35EXPECTATIONS UM, FOR.

51:36INDIVIDUALS AND SO WE DO UM WE

51:39DO TRY.

51:40>> TO TRIAGE CASES AND.

51:41>> HAVE.

51:41A.

51:41REALLY GOOD UNDERSTANDING

51:42OF OKAY WHAT IS WHAT SUPPORT DO

51:44YOU NEED AT THIS TIME WHAT

51:45OTHER SUPPORTS YOU MAY BE NOT

51:46THINKING ABOUT THAT YOU ALSO

51:48NEED.

51:48>> HELP.

51:48WITH AND SO PRIMARILY YOU KNOW

51:50OUR OFFICE REALLY UM DOES MORE

51:54UH SPECIFIC SERVICES AROUND

51:55LEGAL.

51:56UM CASES.

51:57SO MAKING SURE THAT FOLKS ARE

51:58CONNECTED TO ADEQUATE.

51:59LEGAL SUPPORT UM AND THEN.

52:01>> ALSO IF IT IS AN ISSUE

52:02AROUND HOUSING WE HAVE REALLY

52:04WONDERFUL CONTACTS UM AT THE

52:05OFFICE OF HOUSING THAT WE CAN

52:07UM.

52:07REFER FOLKS TO WARMLY.

52:09SO WE ALWAYS.

52:10>> TRY TO HANDHOLD THE CASE A

52:11LITTLE BIT BECAUSE WE.

52:12>> KNOW THAT THESE ARE REALLY

52:13SENSITIVE CONVERSATIONS.

52:14>> AND.

52:14CHALLENGING TIMES.

52:15UM.

52:16SO YOU KNOW.

52:17WE DO WE DO THAT TRIAGE ON THAT

52:19ASSESSMENT AND THEN DETERMINE

52:20WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE.

52:21TO TO SUPPORT.

52:22THEM WHETHER THAT'S OUR.

52:23OFFICE.

52:24>> AN EXTERNAL PARTNER UM OR

52:25ANOTHER CITY DEPARTMENT OKAY.

52:28AND THEN I GUESS UH IN TERMS

52:31OF.

52:32SORT OF.

52:33>> PLANNING I MY SENSE IS

52:35THERE'S SOME ASPECT OF THIS

52:37PLAN PLANNING FOR THE THE WORST

52:41UH AND YOU KNOW SO WHAT SHOULD

52:43PEOPLE BE DOING TO PREPARE IF

52:46THEY'RE YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE

52:48GOING TO BE DEPORTED OR YOU

52:49KNOW, DETAINED, WHAT DO YOU

52:51RECOMMEND WE.

52:52TELL PEOPLE?

52:53YEAH.

52:54>> SO UM THAT'S WHY A BIG.

52:56>> PART OF OUR WORK IS THAT.

52:57PREPAREDNESS PIECE.

52:59MAKING SURE, UM, FAMILIES.

53:01FEEL EQUIPPED TO HAVE THAT

53:03CONVERSATION WITH THEIR LOVED

53:04ONES, THEIR CHILDREN.

53:05AND MAKING A PLAN AND ALSO

53:07ENSURING THAT THEY KNOW THEIR.

53:08RIGHTS UM, AND ALSO MAKING SURE

53:10THAT THEY'VE CONNECTED.

53:10>> WITH AN ATTORNEY TO EXPLORE

53:12ALL AVAILABLE OPTIONS.

53:13>> SO THESE ARE THOSE ARE

53:14REALLY THE THREE.

53:14>> THINGS THAT WE DO.

53:15RECOMMEND FOLKS AS.

53:16THEY'RE THEY'RE GOING ALONG IN

53:17THIS JOURNEY MAKING SURE.

53:19>> HAVE YOU.

53:19>> TALKED TO AN ATTORNEY YET?

53:20IF NOT OKAY LET'S GET YOU SET

53:22UP WITH A CONSULTATION.

53:23HAVE YOU DO YOU KNOW YOUR

53:24RIGHTS?

53:25HERE'S A.

53:25>> RED CARD.

53:26HERE'S A.

53:26>> FLIER FROM MOYA.

53:28UM, I WAS SAYING BEFORE THAT WE

53:29HAVE, UH, MULTILINGUAL KNOW

53:31YOUR RIGHTS.

53:31RESOURCES ON.

53:32>> OUR WEBSITE AND WE'RE HAPPY

53:33TO SHARE PRINTED MATERIALS.

53:35>> WITH YOUR TEAM AS WELL TO

53:36GIVE OUT TO FOLKS.

53:37UM.

53:37AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE UM,

53:39FAMILY PLANNING DOCUMENTS.

53:41SO UM, DECIDING.

53:43IS A DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO HAVE

53:44A GUARDIAN.

53:45FOR YOUR CHILD?

53:46DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO HAVE A

53:47CAREGIVER.

53:47FOR YOUR CHILD?

53:48UM, AND THEN REFERRING FOLKS.

53:50>> TO.

53:50THOSE ORGANIZATIONS WHO CAN

53:51HELP THEM NOTARIZE, COMPLETE

53:53AND FILL OUT THOSE DOCUMENTS.

53:54SO REALLY JUST.

53:55HAVING A PLAN IN PLACE.

53:57AND THEN YEAH, I GUESS SO JUST

53:58FOR THE FAMILY PLANNING ISSUE

54:00BECAUSE THAT'S SORT

54:02OF UNFORTUNATE.

54:03I THINK YOU KNOW PEOPLE HAVE TO

54:05PREPARE AND THAT'S ONE OF THE

54:06THINGS TO MAKE SURE YOUR KIDS

54:08ARE TAKING CARE OF AND UM DO

54:11YOU NEED AN ATTORNEY FOR THAT

54:13TO OR DOES YOUR OFFICE DO THAT

54:14?

54:15WHO TAKES CARE OF THE

54:17COMPLAINT?

54:18UH, WE DO NOT PROVIDE THAT

54:19SERVICE IN OUR OFFICE.

54:21UM, YOU CAN HAVE.

54:22UM WE.

54:23GENERALLY RECOMMEND THAT FOLKS,

54:24DEPENDING ON WHICH LEVEL OF.

54:27AUTHORIZATION THEY MAY NEED AN

54:28ATTORNEY.

54:28UM, IF THEY ARE TO GO TO LIKE

54:30FAMILY.

54:30COURT, FOR EXAMPLE.

54:31UM, BUT WE CONNECT TO UM

54:34INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE SEEKING

54:35THAT TO HARVARD.

54:37>> THEY HAVE.

54:37>> A LEGAL AID CLINIC THAT'S

54:38SUPPORTING WITH THIS.

54:39UM, AS WELL AS ONE OF OUR

54:40PARTNERS ATHENS.

54:41YEAH.

54:41ALPHA AND UM, IN OUR.

54:43IMMIGRATION LEGAL.

54:44ACCESS GRANT UM, THAT WE ARE UM

54:46I WAS MENTIONING WHAT SHOULD

54:47HOPEFULLY BE OUT TO THE

54:49COMMUNITY.

54:49THE FUNDING I SHOULD.

54:51SAY SHOULD.

54:51>> BE OUT TO THE.

54:52COMMUNITY IN NOVEMBER.

54:52THAT IS ALSO ONE OF THE

54:54COMPONENTS.

54:54SO MAKING SURE THAT OUR

54:56ORGANIZATIONS WHO ARE DOING

54:57THAT PREPAREDNESS WORK.

54:58ALSO HAVE FUNDING.

54:59SO SO WE'LL HAVE A BETTER LIST

55:00ONE OF ADDITIONAL REFERRAL

55:02LOCATIONS ONCE THE FUNDING

55:04DECISIONS HAVE BEEN MADE.

55:05OKAY.

55:06>> UM YEAH.

55:07SO I GUESS I I THINK WHAT I'VE

55:11BEEN TELLING PEOPLE IS LIKE

55:12THERE'S RE SCREENING FOR OTHER

55:16UH, YOU KNOW, AVENUES FOR SUE

55:19STATUS ESSENTIALLY UH BECAUSE

55:21SOMEBODY MIGHT HAVE ANOTHER

55:22CLUE.

55:22EXACTLY.

55:23AND THEN FAMILY PLANNING IS

55:25THAT SO AM I MISSING ANYTHING?

55:27UM AND I WOULD MAKE SURE THAT

55:29FOLKS KNOW THEIR RIGHTS.

55:30RIGHT.

55:30IF THEY ARE IF I, UH IF THEY

55:32WERE TO ENCOUNTER ICE.

55:33UM, OUR OFFICE HAS LOTS OF RED

55:35CARDS.

55:36PLEASE COME, YOU KNOW, SEND

55:37YOUR TEAM UP.

55:38WE'RE HAPPY TO GIVE YOU COPIES

55:39OF THOSE.

55:39UM, AND WE ALSO HAVE SOME MORE

55:41PRINTED MATERIALS THAT WE ARE

55:42WORKING ON DISSEMINATING IN THE

55:43COMING WEEKS.

55:44OKAY.

55:45UM OKAY.

55:46AND THEN SO IT COULD WHAT'S THE

55:48STRUCTURE OF THE HEARINGS OR DO

55:50I SEE MORONI UP THERE?

55:53UH THERE ARE.

55:55YEAH.

55:55>> YEAH, I MISS A MENTOR.

55:57WANTED TO MAKE SURE HE GOT.

56:00UH.

56:01>> THE FIRST SPOT ON THE PANEL.

56:02OKAY, I'M GOING TO START THE

56:03SECOND PANEL AS SOON AS YOU

56:05FINISH.

56:05NO, NO.

56:05>> IT'S GOOD.

56:06I MEAN, I THINK IT TAKES A LOT

56:07OF PARTNERSHIP.

56:08I'M GLAD TO SEE FOLLOW UP,

56:10MR MENTOR.

56:10YOU KNOW I DO.

56:11OKAY.

56:12THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

56:13UH, CHAIR, I HOPEFULLY TOOK

56:15LESS THAN THE SIX MINUTES AND

56:17WE CAN, YOU KNOW, REMINISCE ON

56:19THAT NEXT TIME THE RULES ARE

56:21REVERSED.

56:21SO THIS ONE THING, COURTNEY,

56:23CAN YOU SEND OUT SOME OF THOSE

56:24RED CARDS?

56:26I GUESS WE CAN CERTAINLY YES.

56:27WE'RE IN THE PROCESS

56:28OF ACTUALLY REORDERING A TON

56:29OF THEM.

56:30SO UM, PLEASE I CAN CONNECT

56:31WITH YOUR TEAMS TO DETERMINE

56:33WHICH LANGUAGES MIGHT BE THE

56:35MOST SUPPORTIVE.

56:35THANK YOU.

56:37COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE HAS.

56:38SOME FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS.

56:39THANK YOU.

56:40UM, AND I WANTED TO THANK YOU,

56:42COURTNEY FOR UPLIFTING THE NAME

56:44OF PIERRE THOMAS BELL AND FOR

56:46UM, REALLY CENTERING HOW

56:48IMPORTANT MENTAL HEALTH IS IN

56:49THIS MOMENT.

56:50UM, IT REMINDED ME OF A HUGE

56:53TRAGEDY THAT WE HAD IN MARCH

56:55THE PASSING OF EMMANUEL DIMAS,

56:57UM, WHO WAS ARRESTED BY ICE

56:59RIGHT HERE IN DORCHESTER AND

57:02DIED OF A TOOTHACHE IN UM,

57:04ARIZONA.

57:06I'M WONDERING IF WE ARE SEEING

57:07ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENS

57:09WHEN SOMEONE IS DETAINED BY ICE

57:11IS THAT THEY NEED TO GET AN

57:13ATTORNEY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE,

57:15BUT ALSO THEY NEED TO MAKE SURE

57:17THAT THAT'S AN ATTORNEY WHO HAS

57:18EXPERIENCE NOT ONLY IN THE

57:20IMMIGRATION WORLD BUT THE

57:21CRIMINAL WORLD.

57:22WE CAN UNDERSTAND OR TRY TO

57:24STRATEGIZE ABOUT WHAT MAKES THE

57:26MOST SENSE.

57:27UM, ARE WE SEEING ATTORNEYS

57:30THAT HAVE THAT NEXUS

57:33OF CRIMINAL AND IMMIGRATION

57:34EXPERIENCE TO PROPERLY GIVE

57:37GUIDANCE TO PEOPLE WHO NEED IT?

57:40OUR OFFICE DOES HAVE UM, ONE

57:42ATTORNEY ACTUALLY WHO DOES

57:43VOLUNTEER WITH US THAT HAS THAT

57:46PARTICULAR EXPERTISE AND WE ARE

57:47FOREVER GRATEFUL THAT SHE

57:48CONTINUES TO VOLUNTEER WITH US

57:50BECAUSE IT IS UM, A REAL

57:51CHALLENGE UM, JUST BECAUSE

57:54OF THE WAY THE FEDERAL

57:55GOVERNMENT DETERMINES WHAT A

57:56CRIMINAL CHARGES VERSUS AT THE

57:57LOCAL LEVEL.

57:58UM, SO WE WE HAVE SPECIFICALLY

58:01BEEN SEEKING MORE ATTORNEYS FOR

58:03OUR CONSULTATIONS THAT HAVE

58:04THAT NEXUS.

58:05UM, AND SO IF THERE ARE OTHER

58:06INDIVIDUALS WE WOULD LOVE TO

58:08GET CONNECTED TO THEM.

58:09UM, I THINK IN TERMS OF UM WE

58:13HAVE A REALLY GOOD RELATIONSHIP

58:14FOR WITH CPCS THE CENTER FOR

58:16PUBLIC COMMITTEE SERVICES I

58:18THINK UM AND SO WE WE TRY TO

58:21WORK WITH THEM REALLY CLOSELY

58:23TO ENSURE THAT UM, THE

58:24IMMIGRATION SERVICES AND THE

58:26CRIMINAL UM LEGAL SERVICES ARE

58:28REALLY WELL COMBINED THERE.

58:30THANK YOU.

58:31UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SO MANY

58:34OFFSHOOTS TO THIS WORK AND SO

58:35SOMETIMES THINGS GET LOST.

58:36I REMEMBER ONE OF THE THINGS

58:37THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WAS

58:40UM, CONNECTING WITH LAW

58:41SCHOOLS.

58:42I KNOW FOR EXAMPLE, MY ALMA

58:43MATER HARVARD, THEY HAVE UH,

58:46IMMIGRATION CLINIC IT'S AN

58:47IMMIGRATION REFUGEE CLINIC.

58:48BCC I BELIEVE ALSO HAS A CLINIC

58:50.

58:51HOW HAVE WE BEEN TAPPING INTO

58:52THOSE CLINICS TO ALSO BE

58:54OF ASSISTANCE OR WHERE ARE THEY

58:55IN TERMS OF FEELING LIKE THEY

58:56CAN SUPPORT THIS WORK?

58:57YEAH.

58:58>> SO WE ARE ACTUALLY IN PRIME

59:00SEASON FOR THOSE RECONNECTIONS

59:02SOMETIMES THE SUMMER TO BE

59:04HONEST CAN BE REALLY

59:05CHALLENGING BECAUSE THERE

59:06AREN'T AS MANY STUDENTS TO TAKE

59:07ON THESE CASES.

59:08UM WE HAVE FUNDED SOME OTHER

59:10ORGANIZATIONS IN THE PAST.

59:12UM THERE'S THE STUDENT CLIMATE

59:13CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE

59:15THAT DOES A BIT OF ORGANIZING

59:16AND ASYLUM APPLICATION

59:19ASSISTANCE.

59:19UM, BUT IT CAN BE CHALLENGING,

59:21RIGHT?

59:22BECAUSE THE ASYLUM CASES TAKE

59:24SO LONG AND YOU KNOW, OFTEN

59:26THERE'S ONE TWO STUDENTS FOR

59:28ONE CASE.

59:29UM, AND SO I THINK THINKING

59:30ABOUT THOSE STRATEGIES, HOW DO

59:32WE CONTINUE TO INVEST IN

59:34INVESTING IN LIKE THE GROWTH

59:35AND THE FUTURE OF ATTORNEYS

59:36THAT WANT TO GO INTO THAT

59:38REALLY CHALLENGING FIELD

59:40OF IMMIGRATION?

59:40RIGHT.

59:41UH, WE'RE.

59:42>> SEEING MORE OF AN IDEA THAN

59:43WE ARE SEEING PEOPLE GOING.

59:44EXACTLY.

59:45>> YEAH.

59:45AND SO OUR OFFICE IS ALSO

59:46TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WAYS THAT

59:48WE CAN PROMOTE DOJ

59:50ACCREDITATION AS WELL.

59:51AND SO THAT IS ANOTHER YES,

59:52ANOTHER.

59:53SOMETHING IFC'S DOING AS WELL.

59:54EXACTLY.

59:55>> UM SO HOW CAN WE SUPPORT

59:57MORE ORGANIZATIONS TO DO THAT

59:58WORK BECAUSE THEY'RE ALSO

59:59REALLY WELL CULTURALLY PLACED

1:00:00TO DO THAT WORK UM, WITH OUR

1:00:02COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

1:00:03SO THAT IS ANOTHER AREA THAT WE

1:00:04ARE TRYING TO FUND AS WELL AND

1:00:06GRATEFUL TO THE MIRA COALITION

1:00:07THAT IS YOU KNOW, ALSO AN AREA

1:00:09OF WORK THAT THEY'RE

1:00:10SUPPORTING.

1:00:11SO IF FOLKS ASK ME WHO IS

1:00:12LEADING ON THE WORK OF MAKING

1:00:13SURE THAT OUR OUR LAW SCHOOLS

1:00:15ARE INTEGRATED INTO SORT

1:00:17OF THIS POT ENVIRONMENT

1:00:19OF MAKING SURE WE HAVE LAWYERS

1:00:20FOR FOLKS WHO NEED THEM OR

1:00:22LEGAL ACCESS.

1:00:22I CAN SAY THAT MOYA IS LEADING

1:00:25IN ON THAT CHARGE.

1:00:26I WOULD SAY PARTNERING WITH THE

1:00:27STATE ON THIS UM, THE STATE

1:00:29THROUGH THEIR PROJECT.

1:00:30>> THAT SUZANNE.

1:00:31YES, OF COURSE IS WORKING ON

1:00:33IT.

1:00:33YES.

1:00:33UM THEY'RE WORKING REALLY

1:00:35CLOSELY ON THE ICE CAP PROJECT

1:00:37IF YOU ALL HAVE HEARD OF THAT.

1:00:39SO UM, IF YOU ARE HEARING

1:00:40OF ANY CONSTITUENTS THAT UM,

1:00:43MAYBE WERE HURT WHEN THEY WERE

1:00:44DETAINED OR THEY HAD THEIR

1:00:46CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATED, UM, I

1:00:47BELIEVE THEY'RE PARTNERING WITH

1:00:49SUFFOLK THIS UPCOMING YEAR ON

1:00:51THAT PROJECT AND WE'RE

1:00:52PREVIOUSLY PARTNERING WITH

1:00:53NORTHEASTERN.

1:00:54THANK YOU.

1:00:55AND HAVE YOU BEEN PART OF THE

1:00:57COOPERATIVE WORK OR THE

1:00:58CONVERSATIONS AROUND

1:00:59COOPERATIVES?

1:01:00YES, YES OKAY.

1:01:01JUST WANTED TO UM MAKE SURE

1:01:04BECAUSE THAT'S I THINK IS AN

1:01:05IMPORTANT COMPONENT TO SORT

1:01:06OF LIKE HOW WE'RE LOOKING AT

1:01:07ALL OF THE THINGS THAT ARE

1:01:08HAPPENING, UM, WHEN IT COMES TO

1:01:10AND I KNOW THAT UM DOCTOR GOBBO

1:01:12AND UM AND IT WILL SPEAK TO

1:01:14THIS AND MAYBE MORRONE WILL

1:01:15SPEAK TO THIS TOO.

1:01:17UM.

1:01:17YOU KNOW.

1:01:19DURING TRUMP 1.0 WE HAD THE

1:01:22LEGAL UM DEFENSE FUNDS.

1:01:24WE HAD A LOT OF LAW FIRMS WHO

1:01:27WERE STEPPING UP TO PROVIDE

1:01:29SUPPORT.

1:01:30HOW WAS THAT ENGAGEMENT LOOKED

1:01:31LIKE WITH LAW FIRMS AND WHO HAS

1:01:35BEEN OWNING I KNOW IT'S BEEN

1:01:37AGAIN EVERYTHING HAS BEEN

1:01:38DIFFERENT THAN THERE HAVE BEEN.

1:01:39THERE HASN'T BEEN AS MANY.

1:01:41BUT WHO IS ALSO OWNING THAT

1:01:43WORK TO REACH OUT TO LAW FIRMS

1:01:46TO GET THEM TO DO SOME OF THESE

1:01:48CASES PRO BONO.

1:01:49YEAH.

1:01:50>> SO I WOULD SAY UM WE

1:01:51TYPICALLY REACH OUT TO THE PRO

1:01:53BONO ARMS TO TRY TO GET MORE

1:01:54SUPPORT IF WE'RE HOSTING A

1:01:56CLINIC, UM, FOR OUR FREE

1:01:58IMMIGRATION CONSULTATIONS AND

1:01:59THEN REALLY THE STATE UM, AND

1:02:01OUR COMMUNITY BASED

1:02:02ORGANIZATIONS HAVE BEEN LEADING

1:02:03IN THAT WORK ON TAKING ON THOSE

1:02:06CASES BUT EVEN THOSE EVEN THE

1:02:08PRO BONO ARMS, EVEN THE UM, LOW

1:02:11BONO EVEN FULL PAYMENT UM,

1:02:13WE'RE SEEING WAITLISTS AT THE

1:02:15PRIVATE LEVEL AS WELL.

1:02:16YEAH.

1:02:17>> BECAUSE I.

1:02:17I'D LIKE.

1:02:18>> TO MOVE ON TO THE COMMUNITY

1:02:21PANEL IF YOU DON'T MIND.

1:02:22SURE, SURE.

1:02:23I'D LIKE TO SEE US DO A LITTLE

1:02:25BIT MORE WORK IN THAT SPACE.

1:02:26I HAVEN'T BEEN SEEING THOSE

1:02:28PRIVATE, UH, LIKE BIG LAW FIRM

1:02:30ATTORNEYS INVOLVED.

1:02:31SOMEONE CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M

1:02:33WRONG, BUT I ALSO THINK, LIKE

1:02:34WE NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT

1:02:35ALL THE WAYS IN WHICH WE CAN

1:02:36GET LAWYERS INVOLVED IN LEGAL

1:02:39ASSISTANCE.

1:02:39AND SO I'D LOVE FOR YOUR OFFICE

1:02:41TO SORT OF I'M PUTTING IN ON

1:02:42HOW TO OWN THAT WORK BECAUSE A

1:02:43LOT OF IT ISN'T JUST ABOUT UM,

1:02:46A LOT OF IT IS ABOUT

1:02:47COORDINATION.

1:02:48A LOT OF IT IS ABOUT OKAY, LIKE

1:02:49WE HAVE FOLKS WHO CAN UM AND

1:02:52WHO ARE ABLE AND LIKE A LOT

1:02:53OF THESE BIG LAW FIRMS ALSO

1:02:55HAVE IMMIGRATION LAWYERS WHO

1:02:56USUALLY ARE THE THEY'RE USUALLY

1:02:59DOING EMPLOYMENT BASED

1:03:00IMMIGRATION WORK BUT SHOULD

1:03:02HAVE THE CAPACITY TO TAKE ON 1

1:03:04OR 2 PRO BONO CASES AND WE

1:03:06SHOULD ENCOURAGE THEM TO DO

1:03:07THAT.

1:03:07WE SHOULD HAVE A LAWYER A

1:03:08LETTER IF NEEDED SIGNED BY THE

1:03:10MAYOR, SIGNED BY MYSELF.

1:03:12SOMEBODY ELSE NEEDS TO TO

1:03:13ENCOURAGE THESE LAW FIRMS THAT

1:03:14MAKE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO

1:03:17TAKE ON MORE OF THESE CASES.

1:03:19THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

1:03:22>> COULD I JUST TEXT THE.

1:03:24PRESIDENT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS

1:03:25BLACK LAWYERS?

1:03:26THANK YOU.

1:03:27>> SHE'S WILLING TO HELP.

1:03:28I WONDER IF I'LL GIVE YOU HER.

1:03:30>> INFORMATION AFTER THE

1:03:31HEARING.

1:03:31>> I APPRECIATE.

1:03:32>> THAT AND CONTACT HER

1:03:33DIRECTLY.

1:03:33AND THEN THERE'S A WOMEN'S

1:03:35BLACK LAWYERS.

1:03:36>> I HAVEN'T HEARD BACK FROM

1:03:37HER YET, BUT I CAN'T SAY.

1:03:39THEY WILL BE WILLING TO.

1:03:40HELP WHEN ARE ABLE.

1:03:42BUT, UH, I'M ASKING THEM FOR AT

1:03:44LEAST THE MASS BLACK BODIES

1:03:45HAVE SAID THAT.

1:03:46YEAH.

1:03:46>> AND I THINK THE MORE PEOPLE

1:03:48THAT ARE AWARE OF THIS RIGHT,

1:03:49THEY MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO HELP

1:03:50BUT MAYBE THEY KNOW SOMEONE IN

1:03:51THEIR NETWORK THAT THEY CAN

1:03:53PULL ON FOR THAT SUPPORT.

1:03:54THANK YOU COURTNEY YOU HAVE A

1:03:56LAST ANY FINAL?

1:03:59NO I DON'T THINK SO.

1:04:00I THINK JUST THANK YOU ALL FOR

1:04:02AGAIN FOR THIS HEARING THANKFUL

1:04:03THANK YOU FOR YOUR YOUR

1:04:05CONVERSATION AND YOUR

1:04:05QUESTIONS.

1:04:06A LOT OF FOOD FOR THOUGHT UM

1:04:08FOR OUR OFFICE IN THIS

1:04:10DIRECTION AND WE'RE GRATEFUL

1:04:11FOR ALL THE ADVOCACY AS WELL.

1:04:13UM, THIS REALLY TAKES US ALL

1:04:15WORKING TOGETHER ON THIS ISSUE

1:04:16TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE

1:04:18SUPPORTING OUR NOT JUST OUR

1:04:20HAITIAN COMMUNITY MEMBERS BUT

1:04:21ALL OF OUR IMMIGRANT RESIDENTS

1:04:22REALLY HOLISTICALLY.

1:04:24UM, SO LOOKING FORWARD TO

1:04:25CONTINUING IN THAT WORK WITH

1:04:26YOU ALL.

1:04:27COURTNEY, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:04:27THANK YOU.

1:04:28>> THIS TIME.

1:04:30I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE UH.

1:04:33TODAY'S COMMUNITY PANEL.

1:04:35I SEE MR MENTORS ALREADY THERE

1:04:37.

1:04:38UH, BRIAN CONCANNON.

1:04:41AND DOCTOR GUILBAULT.

1:04:45GOOD TO SEE YOU, DOCTOR.

1:04:47ABOUT THAT SMILE.

1:04:49YOU'RE ALWAYS SMILING.

1:04:52I NEED LIKE 10% OF HER ENERGY.

1:04:55GREAT.

1:05:05>> COURTNEY, THANK YOU.

1:05:06SO MUCH AND.

1:05:07>> BE IN TOUCH WITH ME.

1:05:08YES ABOUT THAT INFORMATION FROM

1:05:11THE MASS PIKE LAWYERS.

1:05:17THERE'S THAT SMILE AGAIN.

1:05:21THANK YOU.

1:05:22SO MUCH.

1:05:22UH.

1:05:24I'M GOING TO GIVE EACH OF YOU

1:05:26SIX MINUTES, MISTER MENTOR,

1:05:27SINCE YOU'VE BEEN THERE FOR

1:05:28QUITE.

1:05:29>> A WHILE.

1:05:30WHY DON'T WE.

1:05:30START OFF WITH TWO?

1:05:32ALL RIGHT.

1:05:33>> THANK YOU.

1:05:34UM.

1:05:34THANK YOU.

1:05:34UH, COUNCILOR CULPEPPER THANK

1:05:36YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA,

1:05:38COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE, UM, AND

1:05:41COUNCILOR WEBER.

1:05:41FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO

1:05:42TESTIFY.

1:05:43UH, MY NAME IS MY RUNNING

1:05:45MENTOR.

1:05:45I'M THE.

1:05:46POLITICAL DIRECTOR WITH THE

1:05:47MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND

1:05:48REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION.

1:05:50MIA FOR SHORT.

1:05:52UM, MY BOSS, ME.

1:05:54EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LIZ SWEET

1:05:56UM, TESTIFIED BEFORE.

1:05:57YOU TWO MONTHS AGO.

1:05:59ABOUT WHAT WE FEARED WOULD

1:06:01HAPPEN IF TEMPORARY PROTECTED

1:06:02STATUS FOR HAITIANS WAS

1:06:05TERMINATED.

1:06:06UM, AT THE TIME, MUCH OF OUR.

1:06:08TEST TESTIMONY FOCUSED ON.

1:06:10>> WHAT COULD HAPPEN PEOPLE

1:06:12LOSING THEIR JOBS.

1:06:12FAMILIES FACING.

1:06:13HOUSING INSTABILITY.

1:06:15UH, AN INCREASED DEMAND.

1:06:16FOR LEGAL.

1:06:17SERVICES, GREATER PRESSURE ON

1:06:19OUR SOCIAL SERVICE

1:06:20INFRASTRUCTURE.

1:06:21UH, AND THE POSSIBILITY

1:06:23OF INCREASED IMMIGRATION.

1:06:24ENFORCEMENT.

1:06:25>> TODAY I WANT TO TALK ABOUT

1:06:27WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THOSE

1:06:28CONCERNS BECOME REALITY.

1:06:30THE TERMINATION OF TPS HAS NOT

1:06:33SIMPLY, UM, HAS NOT SIMPLY BEEN

1:06:35A CHANGE IN IMMIGRATION.

1:06:36STATUS FOR MANY HAITIAN

1:06:38RESIDENTS IN BOSTON.

1:06:39IT HAS CREATED.

1:06:41>> A CHAIN OF REACTION

1:06:42AFFECTING EMPLOYMENT, HOUSING,

1:06:45FAMILY STABILITY.

1:06:46ACCESS TO LEGAL SERVICES.

1:06:48AND THEIR SENSE OF SAFETY.

1:06:50AND SECURITY.

1:06:51AND I WANT TO EMPHASIZE

1:06:53SOMETHING THAT IS SOMETIMES

1:06:55LOST IN.

1:06:55DISCUSSIONS ABOUT IMMIGRATION

1:06:57STATUS.

1:06:57AND THAT IS THAT.

1:06:59THESE ARE OUR NEIGHBORS.

1:07:01>> AND I SHOULD MENTION THAT

1:07:02I'M A PROUD IMMIGRANT FROM

1:07:03GABON MYSELF.

1:07:05UM, AND IMMIGRANTS ARE PARENTS

1:07:08TAKING.

1:07:08CHILDREN UM, TO BOSTON SCHOOLS.

1:07:10>> THEY ARE HEALTH WORKERS.

1:07:12HOME HEALTH AIDE.

1:07:13SHOCKER WORKERS, CONSTRUCTION

1:07:15WORKERS, RESTAURANT WORKERS,

1:07:17BUSINESS.

1:07:17OWNERS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

1:07:20THEY HAVE BUILT LIVES HERE.

1:07:22THEY PAY TAXES.

1:07:23THEY PAY RENT.

1:07:24THEY CARE FOR THEIR.

1:07:25FAMILIES AND CONTRIBUTE.

1:07:27>> TO THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD THEY

1:07:28CALL HOME.

1:07:29FOR MANY TPS.

1:07:30PROVIDER UH TPS PROVIDED.

1:07:33A LEGAL.

1:07:34ABILITY TO WORK.

1:07:35>> AND REMAIN IN THE UNITED.

1:07:36STATES WITH HAITI.

1:07:37CONTINUED TO FACE EXTRAORDINARY

1:07:40CONDITION.

1:07:42IN LATE 2024, MIRA AND A BROAD

1:07:45COALITION OF NONPROFIT.

1:07:46ORGANIZATION, STATE.

1:07:47PARTNERS AND VOLUNTEER.

1:07:48ATTORNEYS CAME.

1:07:49TOGETHER TO HELP MORE THAN.

1:07:514000 HAITIAN MEN, WOMEN AND

1:07:54CHILDREN.

1:07:54APPLY FOR TPS.

1:07:56WE DID THAT BECAUSE WE KNEW

1:07:58THAT TPS COULD MEAN WELL WHAT

1:08:01TPS COULD.

1:08:01MEAN FOR FAMILY.

1:08:03STABILITY A WORK PERMIT, THE.

1:08:05ABILITY TO PLAN FOR FUTURE.

1:08:06THE ABILITY.

1:08:07>> TO.

1:08:08CONTRIBUTE OPENLY ECONOMICALLY

1:08:09.

1:08:10TO OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY MANY

1:08:13OF THOSE SAME INDIVIDUALS ARE

1:08:15ONCE AGAIN TRYING TO NAVIGATE.

1:08:17A VERY COMPLICATED SYSTEM.

1:08:19WE ARE SEEING.

1:08:20>> A TREMENDOUS NEW UM, NEED.

1:08:23FOR IMMIGRATION.

1:08:23LEGAL ASSISTANCE AS.

1:08:25PEOPLE TRY.

1:08:26>> TO UNDERSTAND WHAT OPTIONS

1:08:27IF ANY REMAIN AVAILABLE TO.

1:08:29THEM AND TO THE LEGAL.

1:08:31SERVICES SYSTEM WAS ALREADY

1:08:33STRETCHED THIN.

1:08:34LEGAL PROVIDERS.

1:08:36ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS ARE

1:08:37WORKING TO SCREEN FORMER TPS

1:08:40HOLDERS TO DETERMINE.

1:08:41WHETHER THEY MAY.

1:08:42QUALIFY FOR ASYLUM.

1:08:43OR ANOTHER FORM OF IMMIGRATION

1:08:45RELIEF AND HELP FAMILIES

1:08:47UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR OPTIONS

1:08:48ARE.

1:08:49BUT HERE'S THE PROBLEM.

1:08:50THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH ATTORNEYS.

1:08:53>> AND RESOURCES TO MEET.

1:08:54>> THE MOMENT AND WE HAVE

1:08:55HEARD.

1:08:55THAT ALREADY.

1:08:56AND EVEN WHEN SOMEONE UH MAY

1:08:59HAVE ANOTHER POTENTIAL

1:09:01IMMIGRATION OPTION, THERE IS

1:09:02OFTEN A.

1:09:02GAP BETWEEN LOSING TPS BASED

1:09:05WORK AUTHORIZATION.

1:09:06AND OBTAINING.

1:09:08AUTHORIZATION THROUGH ANOTHER

1:09:09PROCESS.

1:09:10THAT GAP ACTUALLY.

1:09:11MATTERS A PERSON.

1:09:13CAN HAVE A PENDING.

1:09:15IMMIGRATION CASE AND.

1:09:16STILL BE UNABLE TO.

1:09:17WORK LEGALLY.

1:09:19A PARENT CAN STILL HAVE

1:09:21MORTGAGE.

1:09:21OR RENT PAYMENT, CHILDCARE.

1:09:23COSTS, GROCERIES,

1:09:24TRANSPORTATION.

1:09:25EXPENSES AND MEDICAL BILLS EVEN

1:09:27WHEN THEIR ABILITY.

1:09:28TO EARN PAYCHECKS HAS SUDDENLY

1:09:30DISAPPEARED.

1:09:32THAT IS.

1:09:33>> WHERE IMMIGRATION.

1:09:33POLICY BECOMES HOUSING POLICY.

1:09:36IT BECOMES A.

1:09:37WORKFORCE ISSUE.

1:09:38>> IT BECOMES A.

1:09:39PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE, A FAMILY

1:09:41STABILITY ISSUE.

1:09:42AND IT BECOMES A CITY ISSUE.

1:09:45WE ARE PARTICULARLY.

1:09:46CONCERNED ABOUT EMPLOYMENT

1:09:48BECAUSE WHEN SOMEONE LOSES.

1:09:50TPS BASED WORK AUTHORIZATION.

1:09:52,THE CONSEQUENCES DO NOT STOP

1:09:54WITH.

1:09:55>> THE WORKER OR THE FAMILY.

1:09:57EMPLOYERS LOSE EXPERIENCED

1:09:58EMPLOYEES.

1:09:59FAMILY FAMILIES LOSE INCOME.

1:10:01BUSINESSES LOSE WORKERS.

1:10:03THEY HAVE.

1:10:04INVESTED IN AND COMMUNITIES

1:10:07LOSE ECONOMIC STABILITY.

1:10:09WORKERS ARE SUDDENLY.

1:10:11PLACED IN VULNERABLE SITUATION

1:10:12MAY ALSO.

1:10:13>> BE AT GREATER RISK OF.

1:10:15UH WAGE THEFT, RETALIATION.

1:10:18DISCRIMINATION OR EVEN

1:10:20EXPLOITATION.

1:10:20THAT IS WHY WORKER PROTECTIONS.

1:10:23>> AND OUTREACH MUST.

1:10:24BE PART OF BOSTON'S RESPONSE.

1:10:26WE ALSO.

1:10:27>> NEED TO RECOGNIZE THE

1:10:28ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF CONFUSION

1:10:29AND FEAR.

1:10:31THAT EXISTS IN IMMIGRANT

1:10:33COMMUNITIES.

1:10:34PEOPLE ARE ASKING VERY BASIC

1:10:36QUESTIONS.

1:10:36CAN I STILL WORK?

1:10:38CAN I KEEP.

1:10:39>> MY PARENTS IN MY APARTMENT?

1:10:40WHAT HAPPENS TO MY CHILDREN?

1:10:42WHAT HAPPENS IF I STOP IF I'M

1:10:45STOPPED BY IMMIGRATION?

1:10:46DO I.

1:10:47QUALIFY FOR ANOTHER FORM

1:10:48OF IMMIGRATION RELIEF?

1:10:49WHERE CAN I FIND THEM?

1:10:50ATTORNEY WHO CAN.

1:10:52I TRUST.

1:10:54FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS NEVER HAD

1:10:57TO NAVIGATE THE IMMIGRATION.

1:10:58SYSTEM BEFORE, THESE QUESTIONS

1:11:00CAN BE.

1:11:01OVERWHELMING AND FOR.

1:11:03HAITIAN FAMILIES.

1:11:03LANGUAGE ACCESS AND TRUSTED.

1:11:05COMMUNITY BASED.

1:11:06OUTREACH ARE PARTICULARLY

1:11:09IMPORTANT.

1:11:10WE BELIEVE BOSTON.

1:11:11>> CAN PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE.

1:11:12IN MEETING AND MEETING THIS

1:11:14MOMENT.

1:11:15FIRST, THE CITY SHOULD INVEST.

1:11:19IN IMMIGRATION.

1:11:19LEGAL SERVICES.

1:11:21WE NEED ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

1:11:22FOR ORGANIZATIONS.

1:11:23PROVIDING IMMIGRATION CONSULT

1:11:25CONSULTATION.

1:11:26LEGAL SCREENINGS, APPLICATIONS,

1:11:28REPRESENTATION.

1:11:29AND REFERRALS.

1:11:30FOR FORMER.

1:11:31TPS HOLDERS.

1:11:33I WOULD.

1:11:34SAY THAT.

1:11:34>> THROUGH THE MASSACHUSETTS

1:11:35ACCESS.

1:11:36TO COUNCILOR INITIATIVE.

1:11:37OR MACIE FOR SHORT, MIRA HAS

1:11:39SERVED.

1:11:40OVER 180 HAITIAN INDIVIDUALS

1:11:43AND CURRENTLY WE.

1:11:44HAVE 308 CASES.

1:11:46>> ON A.

1:11:47WAITING LIST.

1:11:49SECOND, BOSTON.

1:11:50>> SHOULD STRENGTHEN ITS

1:11:51INVESTMENT IN COMMUNITY BASED

1:11:53OUTREACH AND KNOW YOUR.

1:11:54RIGHTS EDUCATION.

1:11:56INFORMATION NEEDS.

1:11:57>> TO REACH PEOPLE WHERE THEY

1:11:58ARE THROUGH HAITIAN LED

1:11:59ORGANIZATIONS CHURCHES.

1:12:02UM SCHOOLS, HEALTH.

1:12:03CENTERS, EMPLOYERS.

1:12:04>> AND OTHER TRUSTED

1:12:05INSTITUTION.

1:12:06AND IT NEEDS TO BE AVAILABLE

1:12:08AND THE LANGUAGES PEOPLE

1:12:10UNDERSTAND.

1:12:12THIRD, THE CITY SHOULD

1:12:13STRENGTHEN WORKER.

1:12:14PROTECTION OUTREACH.

1:12:15FORMER TPS.

1:12:17HOLDERS NEED TO KNOW.

1:12:18THEIR RIGHTS AND THE WORKPLACE

1:12:19.

1:12:19AND WHERE TO REPORT.

1:12:21>> A WAGE THEFT, RETALIATION.

1:12:23OR DISCRIMINATION.

1:12:25IN FOURTH.

1:12:27BOSTON SHOULD PREPARE FOR A

1:12:28BROADER.

1:12:29ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL.

1:12:30CONSEQUENCES OF THE LOSS

1:12:33OF TPS.

1:12:34THIS INCLUDES CONNECTING

1:12:35AFFECTED.

1:12:36FAMILIES TO HOUSING ASSISTANCE,

1:12:37FOOD RESOURCES, CHILDCARE,

1:12:39HEALTH CARE OR THE AVAILABLE

1:12:41SERVICES BEFORE A CRISIS.

1:12:42BECOMES AN EMERGENCY.

1:12:45AND FINALLY, THE CITY SHOULD.

1:12:46CONTINUE TO USE ITS VOICE TO

1:12:48ADVOCATE FOR LONG TERM FEDERAL

1:12:50SOLUTION.

1:12:51BOSTON HAS ALREADY MADE.

1:12:52>> CLEAR THAT IT SUPPORTS TPS

1:12:53HOLDERS.

1:12:54THE CITY ADOPTED A RESOLUTION

1:12:56REAFFIRMING THEIR.

1:12:57SUPPORT FOLLOWING THE SUPREME

1:12:58COURT'S DECISION.

1:12:59UM BACK IN.

1:13:00JUNE THAT.

1:13:02LEADERSHIP MATTERS.

1:13:04BUT TODAY WE ARE ASKING THE

1:13:06CITY.

1:13:07>> TO COMBINE THAT ADVOCACY AND

1:13:09INVESTMENT.

1:13:10BECAUSE THE FAMILIES AFFECTED

1:13:12BY THE.

1:13:12TERMINATION OF TPS ARE.

1:13:14NOT JUST A STATISTIC THEY ARE

1:13:16BOSTON RESIDENTS.

1:13:17THEY ARE OUR CO WORKERS, OUR

1:13:19NEIGHBORS.

1:13:20THEY ARE.

1:13:21>> MY.

1:13:21SONS TEAMMATES CLASSMATES.

1:13:23THEY ARE OUR CAREGIVERS, OUR

1:13:25HEALTH CARE WORKERS, OUR SMALL

1:13:27BUSINESS OWNERS.

1:13:28AND OUR.

1:13:29FRIENDS.

1:13:31>> MIRA AND OUR PARTNERS.

1:13:32ARE COMMITTED TO CONTINUING TO.

1:13:33STAND WITH.

1:13:34HAITIAN COMMUNITY.

1:13:35BUT COMMUNITY.

1:13:37ORGANIZATIONS CANNOT.

1:13:38DO THIS ALONE.

1:13:40WE NEED THE CITY.

1:13:41OF BOSTON TO MAKE SURE THAT

1:13:42FAMILIES WHO.

1:13:43ARE LOSING IMMIGRATION STATUS

1:13:44DO NOT LOSE THEIR JOBS.

1:13:46THEIR HOMES.

1:13:47THEIR ACCESS TO LEGAL

1:13:49REPRESENTATION OR THEIR SENSE

1:13:51OF THE CITY.

1:13:53THAT STANDS WITH THEM.

1:13:54THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY

1:13:56TO TESTIFY.

1:13:57AND I LOOK FORWARD.

1:13:58>> TO WE LOOK FORWARD TO

1:13:59WORKING WITH THIS COUNCIL.

1:14:00UM, AND AGAIN I THANK.

1:14:02>> ALL OF YOU FOR LISTENING TO

1:14:03ME.

1:14:04THANK YOU MR.

1:14:05THANK YOU MR.

1:14:07SMITH.

1:14:08DOCTOR BELL.

1:14:09YOU HAVE SIX MINUTES.

1:14:11THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

1:14:12GOOD MORNING.

1:14:13EVERYONE AND.

1:14:14>> THANK YOU FOR THIS

1:14:15OPPORTUNITY TO BE WITH YOU UH,

1:14:17TODAY UH TO TESTIFY ABOUT

1:14:20WHAT'S GOING ON IN OUR

1:14:21COMMUNITY.

1:14:21UH, BUT BEFORE WE DO SO I JUST

1:14:24WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I, UH

1:14:26YOU KNOW, I SHARE MY SENSE

1:14:28OF GRATITUDE WITH, UH, THE

1:14:29LEADERSHIP OF THIS COUNCIL, UH,

1:14:32ESPECIALLY TO OUR THE, UH I

1:14:35CALL HER A COMBATANT.

1:14:37UH UH, WITH THIS VISION WHO,

1:14:40UH, HAS ALWAYS BEEN PHONE WAY

1:14:43TO STEP IN AND, YOU KNOW,

1:14:45RESPOND TO THE MANY CALLS THAT

1:14:47WE ARE RECEIVING CONNECTING US

1:14:48TO ALL OF THE RESOURCES AND

1:14:50REALLY CHAMPIONING YOU KNOW,

1:14:51UH, ALL OF THE FIGHT THAT WE

1:14:53ARE LEADING AROUND AND THANK

1:14:55YOU FOR UH, UH, ORGANIZING THIS

1:14:58PANEL TODAY.

1:14:59IT MEANS SO, SO MUCH TO US.

1:15:02SO MY NAME IS OFF TO A GABO

1:15:03WITH YPSI IMMIGRANT FAMILY

1:15:05SERVICES INSTITUTE AND I AM

1:15:07HERE UH, NOT SIMPLY TO TALK

1:15:10ABOUT IMMIGRATION POLICY BUT

1:15:11ALSO TO TALK ABOUT PEOPLE, UH,

1:15:14BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE DO.

1:15:15WE MEET EVERY DAY WITH FAMILIES

1:15:18.

1:15:18WE MEET WITH PEOPLE.

1:15:19WE MEET WITH PARENTS WHO HAVE

1:15:21CHILDREN, WITH WORKERS, WITH

1:15:23MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY WHO

1:15:25ARE LITERALLY LIVING WITH AN

1:15:28EXTRAORDINARY LEVEL OF FEAR AND

1:15:30ANXIETY EVERY DAY.

1:15:32AND YOU HEARD THIS WEEK WHAT

1:15:33HAPPENED IN NEW BEDFORD, UH,

1:15:36THIS YOU KNOW, UH, READ THAT

1:15:38REALLY HAPPENED TO NEW BEDFORD

1:15:40.

1:15:40I SEEN UH, SENT SHOCK WAVES

1:15:43WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY EVEN

1:15:45YESTERDAY I WAS, UH IN MY

1:15:47OFFICE AS I WAS LEAVING I WAS

1:15:49RECEIVING SO MANY PHONE CALLS

1:15:51ABOUT.

1:15:51HAVE YOU SEEN EYES IN MATTAPAN?

1:15:54HAVE YOU SEEN I HEARD THAT THEY

1:15:55ARE IN DORCHESTER.

1:15:57I HEARD, YOU KNOW, SOMEWHERE

1:15:58ELSE.

1:15:59SO AGAIN IT IS WHENEVER THESE

1:16:01THINGS HAPPEN THIS SENT THIS

1:16:03SHOCK WAVES TO THE ENTIRE

1:16:05COMMUNITY WHO IS ALREADY LIVING

1:16:07IN FEAR.

1:16:08SO BUT AGAIN, UH, WHAT I WANT

1:16:10YOU TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT, UH,

1:16:11WE KNOW THAT WE ARE ALWAYS

1:16:13TALKING ABOUT NUMBERS AND

1:16:14NUMBERS BUT UH, THOSE EVENTS,

1:16:16YOU KNOW, THEY GO BEYOND

1:16:18NUMBERS.

1:16:20UM, SOMEONE CALLED ME, UH, NOT

1:16:22TOO LONG AGO AND SAID, YOU KNOW

1:16:24WHAT?

1:16:25LOOK, I KNOW THAT YOU ARE

1:16:26ALWAYS GIVING HOPE TO ALL OF US

1:16:28,BUT IT FEELS THAT TO

1:16:30ME THERE'S NO LIFE INSIDE

1:16:33OF ME.

1:16:33AND HE SAID THAT I AM TIRED.

1:16:36I AM TIRED OF LIVING IN FEAR.

1:16:39I AM TIRED OF NOT HAVING ANY

1:16:41OPTIONS.

1:16:42AND WHEN YOU HEAR THOSE WORDS,

1:16:46WHEN YOU PONDER ON THOSE WORD

1:16:48YOU SAY TO YOURSELF WHAT.

1:16:50EXACTLY IS GOING ON IN WHAT CAN

1:16:52WE DO?

1:16:53BECAUSE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THAT

1:16:55PERSON IT'S SOMEONE WHO LEFT

1:16:57HAITI FOR EXAMPLE BECAUSE

1:16:58OF FEAR, LEFT HAITI BECAUSE YOU

1:17:00KNOW HIS LIFE WAS IN DANGER AND

1:17:03HERE AGAIN THE PERSON IS HERE

1:17:05LEGALLY.

1:17:06HE CAME HERE LEGALLY IN PERSON.

1:17:08HE'S NOW LIVING AGAIN, UH, IN

1:17:11FEAR.

1:17:12SO IT'S ALMOST LIKE YOU NEED TO

1:17:14WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT THE

1:17:16HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF YOU KNOW,

1:17:18WHAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW AND

1:17:20THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE MUST

1:17:22NEVER LOSE SIGHT OF.

1:17:24AND THE OTHER, UM, VERY, UH,

1:17:27DEEPLY TROUBLING CONSEQUENCE

1:17:28THAT WE MUST RECOGNIZE IS THAT

1:17:31MANY OF THE PEOPLE AFFECTED BY

1:17:34THE SITUATION NOW THEY HAD

1:17:36BEGUN TO, YOU KNOW, UH, REBUILD

1:17:38THEIR LIVES HERE.

1:17:39YOU KNOW, WHEN WHEN WE FIRST

1:17:42MET WITH THEM AND YOU SEE THEY

1:17:44HAD NOTHING THEY CAME ONLY

1:17:46WITHIN ENVELOPE.

1:17:48UM THEY EMBRACED THEIR COURAGE

1:17:50.

1:17:50THEY WENT TO SCHOOL, THEY

1:17:52LEARNED ENGLISH.

1:17:53THEY FOUND A JOB.

1:17:54THEY ARE NOW ABLE TO WITH AN

1:17:56APARTMENT.

1:17:57THEY ARE ABLE TO TAKE CARE

1:17:59OF THEMSELVES AND TAKE CARE

1:17:59OF THEIR FAMILIES.

1:18:01SO THOSE ARE NOT PEOPLE WHO ARE

1:18:03HERE JUST TO WILL YOU BEGIN TO

1:18:05ASK FOR PEOPLE TO HELP THOSE

1:18:07OUT PEOPLE WHO ARE DETERMINED

1:18:09TO MAKE LIFE FOR THEMSELVES, TO

1:18:10TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES AND TO

1:18:12TAKE CARE OF THEIR COMMUNITY.

1:18:15SO NOW TO NO FAULT ON THEIR OWN

1:18:18THEY ARE BACK TO SQUARE ONE

1:18:20WHERE THEY ARE AGAIN AT OUR

1:18:22DOOR ASKING FOR HELP.

1:18:25WHY?

1:18:25BECAUSE THEY LOST THEIR

1:18:28STATUES.

1:18:28UH, I HEARD A QUESTION ABOUT

1:18:30HOW MANY LAWS EVERYONE WAS AND

1:18:33ALL OF THEM THEY LOST THEIR

1:18:34STATUES.

1:18:35SO THERE IS NO TPS FOR HAITI?

1:18:38ABSOLUTELY NOT LIKE THOSE 250

1:18:40NUMBERS 50,000 NUMBERS.

1:18:41EVERYONE LOST THEIR STATUES SO

1:18:44HERE THEY ARE.

1:18:44THEY CAN NO LONGER AFFORD THEIR

1:18:46RENT.

1:18:47THERE CAN NO LONGER THEY

1:18:49STRUGGLE TO PUT FOOD ON THE

1:18:50TABLE AND SOME OF THEM ARE

1:18:52AFRAID OF EVEN GOING TO THEIR

1:18:53MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS.

1:18:55UH.

1:18:55>> MY SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT

1:18:57CALLED ME THE OTHER DAY TO SEE

1:19:00WE JUST LOST SOMEONE AND I'M

1:19:02LIKE WHAT HAPPENED BECAUSE THAT

1:19:04PERSON SUFFERED IMAGES TOOL AND

1:19:06THE REASON WHY THE PERSON

1:19:08SUFFERED STOPPED BECAUSE THE

1:19:09PERSON DID NOT WANT TO GO TO

1:19:11THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE OF FEAR.

1:19:13AND BY THE TIME YOU KNOW, UH,

1:19:16THEY COULDN'T NAME WHEN WHEN IT

1:19:17WAS TOO LATE THE PERSON DIED.

1:19:20SO AGAIN.

1:19:21UH.

1:19:21>> WE FIND PEOPLE WHO CANNOT OR

1:19:25OUT OF WALKING IN THE STREET TO

1:19:27EVEN GO TO DO THEIR GROCERY

1:19:30SHOPPING.

1:19:31SO AND THIS IS WHERE, YOU KNOW,

1:19:33THROUGH UH, NO FAULT ON THEIR

1:19:35OWN THAT THEY STARTED TO WORK

1:19:37SOMEHOW TO REBUILD THEIR LIVES.

1:19:38AND NOW BEING PUT TO SQUARE ONE

1:19:41MEANS THAT, UM, MOST MOST

1:19:44OF THOSE BUILDING UP AT LEAST

1:19:45FOR US COMMUNITY BASED

1:19:47ORGANIZATIONS THAT TO REALLY

1:19:49RESPOND TO THE CALL TO BE THERE

1:19:52TO ASSIST THOSE FAMILIES.

1:19:54SO AGAIN WE ALWAYS WELCOME THE

1:19:56OPPORTUNITY TO HELP AND WE WILL

1:19:57CONTINUE TO DO WHATEVER THAT WE

1:19:59NEED TO DO TO HELP.

1:20:01BUT WE MUST ALSO ASK THOSE

1:20:04QUESTIONS HOW DID PEOPLE WHO

1:20:06ARE WORKING SUPPORTING THEIR

1:20:08FAMILIES, CONTRIBUTING TO OUR

1:20:10COMMUNITY SUDDENLY BECOME

1:20:12PEOPLE WHO NOW NEED EMERGENCY

1:20:15ASSISTANCE TO SURVIVE?

1:20:17SO AGAIN, THOSE FAMILIES ARE

1:20:18NOT ASKING FOR A HANDOUT.

1:20:20THEY ARE ASKING FOR THE

1:20:21OPPORTUNITY TO WORK TO PROVIDE

1:20:23FOR THEIR CHILDREN, TO PAY

1:20:24THEIR BILLS AND TO LIVE WITH

1:20:25DIGNITY.

1:20:27SO THE DESIRE TO WORK HAS NOT

1:20:29DISAPPEARED BECAUSE THEY DO

1:20:31WANT TO WORK.

1:20:32THE ABILITY AND WILLINGNESS TO

1:20:34CONTRIBUTE HAVE NOT DISAPPEARED

1:20:35BECAUSE THEY DO WANT TO

1:20:37CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR COMMUNITY.

1:20:39BUT WHAT HAS CHANGED IS THEIR

1:20:41ABILITY TO ACCESS THOSE

1:20:43OPPORTUNITIES THAT THEY HAD

1:20:44WORKED SO HARD TO BUILD AND

1:20:46WHEN THOSE OPPORTUNITIES

1:20:48DISAPPEAR, THE CONSEQUENCES DO

1:20:50NOT STOP WITH ONE INDIVIDUAL OR

1:20:52ONE FAMILY THEY AFFECT CHILDREN

1:20:55.

1:20:56WE HEARD IN FOR BOSTON SCHOOL

1:20:58THAT THIS YEAR THE EXPERIENCE

1:21:02YOU JUMP OUT ON TOP OF THE

1:21:03NUMBER OF CHILDREN WHO ARE

1:21:04SUPPOSED TO RETURN TO SCHOOL,

1:21:06THEY AFFECT LANDLORDS AND LOCAL

1:21:08BUSINESSES.

1:21:09THEY AFFECT SCHOOLS, HEALTH

1:21:10CARE PROVIDERS, CHURCHES,

1:21:12NONPROFIT AND COMMUNITY

1:21:14ORGANIZATION.

1:21:15A NUMBER OF CHURCH LEADERS ARE

1:21:16COMPLAINING NOW WHEN SATURDAYS

1:21:19ON SUNDAY THEIR SPACE IS EMPTY

1:21:22BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE EVEN AFRAID

1:21:24TO GO TO CHURCH SO THEY AFFECT

1:21:26THE LOCAL ECONOMY.

1:21:28AND THEY PLACE AN ENORMOUS

1:21:30BURDEN ON ORGANIZATIONS THAT

1:21:32ARE ALREADY DOING EVERYTHING

1:21:34THEY CAN DO TO RESPOND TO THE

1:21:35NEEDS OF VULNERABLE FAMILIES.

1:21:38THE CONSEQUENCES OF IMMIGRATION

1:21:40RAIDS THEREFORE GO FAR BEYOND

1:21:42THE MOMENT WHEN SOMEONE IS

1:21:44TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.

1:21:45FEAR CAN ENTER AN ENTIRE HOUSE.

1:21:48ALL CHILDREN WORRY ABOUT

1:21:50WHETHER THEIR PARENTS WILL COME

1:21:52BACK HOME.

1:21:53WORKERS ARE AFRAID TO GO TO

1:21:55WORK.

1:21:55FAMILIES BECOME AFRAID TO SEEK

1:21:57ASSISTANCE AND AN ENTIRE

1:21:59NEIGHBORHOOD BEGIN TO WITHDRAW

1:22:01FROM ORDINARY PUBLIC LIFE.

1:22:03SO WE MUST TAKE SERIOUSLY THE

1:22:05EMOTIONAL TOLL THE PHYSICAL AND

1:22:08THE PHYSICAL.

1:22:09UH, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND

1:22:11CONSEQUENCE THAT FEAR HAS ON

1:22:13FAMILIES.

1:22:14WHEN SOMEONE TELLS US THERE IS

1:22:16NO LIFE IN ME ANYMORE, WE

1:22:19CANNOT SIMPLY DISMISS THOSE

1:22:20WORDS BECAUSE THEY GO DEEPER

1:22:23THAN JUST YOUR WORD.

1:22:24WHEN PEOPLE FEEL TRAPPED YOU

1:22:26KNOW, POWERLESS AND WITHOUT

1:22:28OPTIONS DESPAIR CAN BECOME

1:22:31OVERWHELMING.

1:22:31UH, SOME PEOPLE MAY EXPERIENCE

1:22:33SEVERE ANXIETY, DEPRESSION,

1:22:36HOPELESSNESS AND THOUGHTS

1:22:38OF HARMING THEMSELVES.

1:22:39WE MUST LISTEN BECAUSE AGAIN,

1:22:41SO OFTEN WE TALK ABOUT LEGAL UH

1:22:44SERVICES.

1:22:45HOWEVER, WE NEED TO ALSO TALK

1:22:47ABOUT THE EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING

1:22:50OF OUR COMMUNITY.

1:22:51WE MUST RECOGNIZE THAT

1:22:53PROTECTING THE COMMUNITY IS NOT

1:22:55ONLY ABOUT PHYSICAL SAFETY, IT

1:22:57IS ALSO ABOUT PROTECTING

1:22:59PEOPLE'S SENSE OF DIGNITY, HOPE

1:23:01,BELONGING AND HUMAN WORTH.

1:23:04SO AGAIN, WE KNOW BOSTON HAS

1:23:05ALWAYS BEEN A CITY SHAPED BY

1:23:08IMMIGRANTS OKAY?

1:23:09THE PEOPLE WE LIVE IN OUR

1:23:10NEIGHBORHOODS, WORK IN OUR

1:23:12BUSINESSES, CARE FOR OUR

1:23:13CHILDREN, SERVE IN OUR

1:23:14HOSPITALS, BUILD OUR HOMES AND

1:23:16THEY CONTRIBUTE AS WE SAY THEY

1:23:18ARE PART OF THE FABRIC OF THE

1:23:20CITY.

1:23:21SO BOSTON MUST LISTEN AND WE

1:23:24MUST REMEMBER, YOU KNOW, DO

1:23:25HUMAN BEINGS BEHIND THE

1:23:28HEADLINES IN STATISTICS?

1:23:30SO I.

1:23:31ASK YOU TO REMEMBER THE MOTHER

1:23:32WHO IS AFRAID TO LEAVE HER

1:23:35HOME.

1:23:36THE FATHER WORRIES THAT HE MAY

1:23:37NOT BE THERE TO PICK UP HIS.

1:23:39CHILD THE CHILD WHO WONDERS

1:23:41WHETHER OR NOT THE PARENTS WILL

1:23:43COME BACK HOME, THE WORKERS

1:23:45AFRAID TO GO TO WORK.

1:23:46THE FAMILY THAT CAN NO LONGER

1:23:48AFFORD TO PAY RENT OR TO PUT

1:23:50FOOD ON THE TABLE AND THE

1:23:52PERSON WHO SAYS I AM TIRED

1:23:55OF LIVING IN FEAR SO WE CANNOT

1:23:57ALLOW FEAR TO BECOME THE

1:23:59DEFINING EXPERIENCE OF AN

1:24:01ENTIRE COMMUNITY.

1:24:02WHATEVER WE THINK ABOUT

1:24:04IMMIGRATION OR IMMIGRATION

1:24:06POLICY, WE SHOULD ALL AGREE

1:24:08THAT OF THAT ONE FUNDAMENTAL

1:24:10PRINCIPLE EVERY PERSON DESERVE

1:24:13TO BE TREATED WITH DIGNITY IN

1:24:15FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY, DESERVE

1:24:17ACCESS TO ACCURATE INFORMATION

1:24:19,SUPPORT AND RESOURCES DURING

1:24:21MOMENTS OF CRISIS.

1:24:23SO I'M.

1:24:23ASKING THIS COUNCIL TO CONTINUE

1:24:25LISTENING TO THE VOICES OF OUR

1:24:27IMMIGRANT FAMILIES TO RECOGNIZE

1:24:29THE PROFOUND IMPACT THAT

1:24:32ENFORCEMENT.

1:24:32ACTIONS CAN LEAVE CAN HAVE ON

1:24:34OUR COMMUNITY AND TO STAND WITH

1:24:36THOSE WHO ARE EXPERIENCING FEAR

1:24:39AND UNCERTAINTY.

1:24:40MOST IMPORTANTLY, LET US GIVE

1:24:43PEOPLE HOPE.

1:24:44WE MUST DO EVERYTHING IN OUR

1:24:46POWER TO FIGHT THOSE EVIL

1:24:49ATTACKS.

1:24:49>> ON.

1:24:50OUR COMMUNITY.

1:24:51AS YOU ALL KNOW WE ARE FIGHTING

1:24:52AT THE LEVEL FOR S 4814 WHICH

1:24:57IS A BILL THAT WILL PROTECT TPS

1:24:58FOR IMMIGRANT FAMILIES.

1:25:00SO WE ARE ASKING THIS

1:25:02COUNCIL TO CONTINUE TO PUSH

1:25:03FORWARD SO THAT ALL SENATORS

1:25:06WHEREVER THIS TEAM.

1:25:07CAN SIGN.

1:25:08>> CAN CO-SPONSOR S 4814 SO WE

1:25:10CAN REMOVE THIS, YOU KNOW,

1:25:12VALUES OF FEAR THAT PEOPLE ARE

1:25:14FACING EVERY DAY.

1:25:15SO WHEN PEOPLE SAY I HAVE NO

1:25:18OPTIONS, WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO

1:25:20TELL THEM THERE IS HOPE BECAUSE

1:25:23WE ARE HERE FOR YOU BECAUSE YOU

1:25:26ARE NOT ALONE AND BECAUSE WE

1:25:27ARE WILLING TO DO WHATEVER IT

1:25:29TAKES.

1:25:30THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK.

1:25:32YOU SO MUCH.

1:25:33THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:25:35THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:25:37UH, MR.

1:25:38CONCANNON.

1:25:39>> YOU HAVE SIX MINUTES PLUS.

1:25:46UH, THANK.

1:25:46>> YOU.

1:25:47>> COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

1:25:48UH, FOR FOR INVOKING THIS

1:25:49MEETING AND INVITING ME TO

1:25:51PARTICIPATE AND THANK YOU,

1:25:53COUNCILOR MEJIA,

1:25:54COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND

1:25:55COUNCILOR WEBER FOR FOR

1:25:57ATTENDING THIS HEARING.

1:25:58UH, THIS IS AN ABSOLUTELY YOU

1:26:00KNOW, AS WE'VE HEARD, AN

1:26:01ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL TIME WHERE

1:26:03WE'RE FACING MULTIPLE CRISES

1:26:05FOR OUR ASIAN NEIGHBORS IN

1:26:08BOSTON AND THROUGHOUT THE

1:26:09COUNTRY.

1:26:10UM, MY OWN WORK.

1:26:12SO I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

1:26:13OF THE INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE

1:26:14AND DEMOCRACY IN HAITI AND MY

1:26:16WORK BRINGS ME LESSON DAY TO

1:26:19DAY CONTACT WITH OUR OUR

1:26:20HAITIAN NEIGHBORS.

1:26:22SO UM, I WILL I DON'T THINK I

1:26:25HAVE MUCH TO ADD TO WHAT WHAT

1:26:26IF SHE AND MIRA AND MOYA UM,

1:26:28HAVE ON THAT?

1:26:29BUT WHAT WE DO DO IS WE'RE

1:26:31WORKING ON THE NATIONAL EFFORTS

1:26:33TO, UM TO PROVIDE PROTECTION

1:26:35FOR FOR HAITIANS AS WELL AS,

1:26:38UM, DOCUMENTING THE HUMAN

1:26:40RIGHTS CONDITIONS IN HAITI THAT

1:26:43ESTABLISH WHY HAITIAN SHOULD

1:26:44NOT BE SENT BACK.

1:26:45AND WE UM I SERVE AS AN EXPERT

1:26:49ON COUNTRY CONDITIONS IN HAITI

1:26:51AND ASYLUM CASES.

1:26:52SO I'D LIKE TO VERY BRIEFLY I

1:26:54SHOULDN'T TAKE LESS THAN MY.

1:26:54SIX MINUTES.

1:26:55>> UM, ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE

1:26:56THOSE ISSUES.

1:26:58UH, ONE IMPORTANT THING TO NOTE

1:27:01HERE IS THAT, YOU KNOW,

1:27:02OBVIOUSLY THE TPS CRISIS WAS

1:27:03NOT CREATED IN BOSTON.

1:27:05UM, IT IT'S NOT OUR GOVERNMENT

1:27:07.

1:27:08IT IS NOT OUR POLITICAL LEADERS

1:27:09WHO WERE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

1:27:11UH, THE CRISIS WAS WAS WAS

1:27:14GENERATED IN WASHINGTON DC AND

1:27:17SUPPORTED BY PUBLIC BY BY

1:27:19POLITICAL LEADERS FROM OTHER

1:27:21STATES AND ENABLED BY A SUPREME

1:27:24COURT WILLING TO UM, IGNORE THE

1:27:27RULE OF LAW IN OUR COUNTRY TO

1:27:28GET TO A POLITICAL RESULT.

1:27:32BUT THE SOLUTION IS TO A LARGE

1:27:33EXTENT MADE IN BOSTON AND UM,

1:27:37STARTING WE ALREADY HEARD ABOUT

1:27:38THE DISCHARGE PETITION THAT

1:27:40THAT LED TO THE HOUSE PASSING

1:27:43IN APRIL THE BILL TO EXTEND

1:27:44HAITI TPS FOR THREE MORE YEARS

1:27:47THAT WAS DONE BY CITY

1:27:49COUNCIL ALUM AYANNA PRESSLEY.

1:27:51AND IT WAS YOU KNOW, WE'RE

1:27:53FACING A LOT OF GOOD.

1:27:54WE'RE TRYING TO DO A LOT

1:27:55OF HARD THINGS HERE AND SOME

1:27:57OF THEM SEEM IMPOSSIBLE.

1:27:58AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO

1:28:00NOTE AS WE'RE BRACING AND

1:28:02PREPARING OURSELVES TO DO THESE

1:28:03HARD THINGS TO ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT

1:28:05A NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE THING THAT,

1:28:07UH, REPRESENTATIVE PRESTON'S

1:28:08DISCHARGE PETITION I MEAN, SHE

1:28:10GOT A DISCHARGE A LAW INVOLVING

1:28:13IMMIGRATION PASSED IN THE U.S.

1:28:15HOUSE CONTROLLED BY MIKE

1:28:17JOHNSON.

1:28:17THAT IS AN EXTRAORDINARILY

1:28:19ACCOMPLISHMENT.

1:28:20AND I THINK IT OPENS THE DOOR

1:28:21TO OTHER EXTRAORDINARY

1:28:23ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT WE'RE ALL

1:28:24CALLED TO DO.

1:28:25AND THE WAY THAT IT HAPPENED

1:28:26WAS OBVIOUSLY VISIONARY

1:28:27LEADERSHIP AND INCREDIBLE

1:28:29PERSISTENCE BY UH,

1:28:31REPRESENTATIVE PRESSLEY.

1:28:32BUT SHE ALSO DID IT IN

1:28:34CONJUNCTION WITH WITH ACTIVIST

1:28:36GROUPS AND A LOT OF THEM HERE

1:28:39INCLUDING YPSI, INCLUDING THE

1:28:40TRUE ALLIANCE CENTER, INCLUDING

1:28:42THE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST

1:28:44SERVICE COMMITTEE THAT SENT OUT

1:28:46UM TEXT MESSAGE TO EVERY

1:28:48UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST

1:28:49CONGREGATION IN THE UNITED

1:28:50STATES TELLING THEM TO MAKE

1:28:52CALLS.

1:28:52THEY WERE CALL CENTERS.

1:28:54CALL PARTIES RUN OUT OF HULA

1:28:55CAFE IN JAMAICA PLAIN.

1:28:57UM THERE WERE UH PARTNERS IN

1:28:59HEALTH ENGAGE THEY THEY BROUGHT

1:29:01DOCTORS AND MED STUDENTS ACROSS

1:29:03THE COUNTRY TO CALL THEM THEIR

1:29:05REPRESENTATIVES.

1:29:05THAT'S HOW THE IMPOSSIBLE GOT

1:29:07HAPPEN.

1:29:07AND I'LL MENTION UH.

1:29:09UH.

1:29:10>> COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE WHO WAS

1:29:12YOU KNOW, WHO WAS CALLING

1:29:14LEADING CALL CENTERS USING HER

1:29:16SOCIAL MEDIA SKILLS.

1:29:17AND I GET YOU KNOW, I GET TEXTS

1:29:19SAID, YOU KNOW, AT MIDNIGHT

1:29:21RYAN I JUST TALKED TO MY MY

1:29:23COLLEGE ROOMMATES EX-BOYFRIENDS

1:29:25.

1:29:25SISTER WHO.

1:29:27WORKS FOR SUCH AND SUCH

1:29:29REPRESENTATIVE IN WEST

1:29:30VIRGINIA.

1:29:30THEY'RE GOING TO SIGN ON

1:29:31TOMORROW.

1:29:32UM.

1:29:33>> YOU KNOW, THAT'S HOW THIS

1:29:34MIRACULOUS HAPPENED WAS THIS

1:29:35DAY TO DAY TO DAY WORK BY

1:29:37ACTIVISTS AND POLITICAL LEADERS

1:29:40AND WE'RE TRYING TO REPLICATE

1:29:41THE SAME THING IN THE SENATE.

1:29:42UM, WE'VE IT'S BEEN LOTS

1:29:45OF FRUSTRATION BUT WE WE'VE HAD

1:29:47NINE MORE SENATORS HAVE JOINED

1:29:49IN THE LAST TEN DAYS.

1:29:51UM, WE'VE GOT ALL BUT THREE

1:29:53DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE AND

1:29:55WE'RE MAKING SOME REALISTIC

1:29:56PROGRESS WITH WITH SEVERAL UH

1:29:59SEVERAL REPUBLICAN SENATE

1:30:00OFFICES.

1:30:01AND IF I HAVE A REQUEST FOR THE

1:30:04UM FOR THE BOSTON CITY

1:30:06COUNCIL ONE, YOU KNOW.

1:30:07CALL YOUR COLLEGE ROOMMATES,

1:30:09EX-BOYFRIENDS.

1:30:09SISTER ANY.

1:30:10CONTACTS IN THE CITY

1:30:11COUNCILORS.

1:30:12BUT I.

1:30:13>> THINK WE HAVE A REAL

1:30:13OPPORTUNITY IF YOU HAVE

1:30:14CONNECTIONS WITH CITY COUNCILS

1:30:16IN STATES WITH REPUBLICAN

1:30:17SENATORS AND I'LL START WITH

1:30:19MAINE.

1:30:20SUSAN COLLINS IS PROBABLY OUR

1:30:21SECOND EASIEST TARGET.

1:30:22OHIO UM, SENATOR HUSTED IS

1:30:25PROBABLY OUR THIRD EASIEST

1:30:26TARGET RIGHT NOW.

1:30:27BUT ANY OTHER STATES WHERE YOU

1:30:29HAVE, UH, INTERESTED CITY

1:30:31COUNCILORS WITH REPUBLICAN

1:30:32GOVERNORS, THEIR CITY COUNCIL,

1:30:35THEIR BIG CITIES CAN MAKE A

1:30:36HUGE DIFFERENCE.

1:30:37UM, AND UH, YOU KNOW, I FORGOT.

1:30:39>> TO MENTION.

1:30:39OBVIOUSLY THE THE THE THE FIGHT

1:30:41IN THE SENATE IS BEING LED BY

1:30:44BY SENATOR MARKEY, UH, WHO

1:30:46AGAIN IS WORKING YOU KNOW,

1:30:48THEY'RE COMING IN EVERY DAY.

1:30:49THEY'RE REACHING OUT TO COME

1:30:50INTO OUR CALLS EVERY EVERY

1:30:51WEDNESDAY AT 4:00.

1:30:53UM, AND YOU KNOW, AGAIN IS

1:30:55WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH THE

1:30:56ACTIVISTS TO MAKE THIS TO MAKE

1:30:58THIS HAPPEN.

1:30:59UM.

1:31:02ONE COMMENT ON THE ALTERNATIVE

1:31:05IMMIGRATION STATUS I MEAN, THAT

1:31:07CAN LITERALLY SAVE LIVES.

1:31:09IT CAN IT CAN, YOU KNOW, SAVE

1:31:10PEOPLE FROM INCREDIBLE PAIN AND

1:31:13IN DETENTION IN FEAR

1:31:15OF DETENTION AND A DEPORTATION

1:31:16TO HAITI.

1:31:17BUT WE HAVE TO REALIZE THAT

1:31:18THAT'S BEING TAKEN.

1:31:19>> WE HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING WE

1:31:20CAN.

1:31:20TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THOSE.

1:31:21BUT WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT

1:31:23THAT'S IN TAKING PLACE UM, IN A

1:31:27TIME WHEN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH

1:31:28IS MAKING AN ASSAULT ON THE

1:31:29ASYLUM SYSTEM.

1:31:30SO IT'S EXTREMELY DIFFICULT UM

1:31:33,JUDGES WHO WHO RULE IN FAVOR

1:31:36OF HAITIANS AND OTHER GROUPS

1:31:37ARE GETTING FIRED FOR DOING SO

1:31:38.

1:31:38UM, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND

1:31:41SECURITY ATTORNEYS THAT TWO

1:31:42YEARS AGO WHAT IT STIPULATED TO

1:31:45HAVE A CASE THAT'S VERY

1:31:46COMPELLING NOW THEY'RE NOT

1:31:48STIPULATING TO EVERYTHING

1:31:49THEY'RE FIGHTING.

1:31:50THEY'RE FIGHTING EVERY CASE ALL

1:31:51THE WAY.

1:31:52EVEN IF THEY BELIEVE THAT THE

1:31:53CASE IS MERITORIOUS, THEY'RE

1:31:55FIGHTING BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO

1:31:56TO KEEP FROM GETTING FIRED.

1:31:57AND SO WE NEED TO YOU KNOW, WE

1:32:00NEED TO KEEP FIGHTING THOSE.

1:32:01BUT WHAT WE REALLY NEED TO DO

1:32:03IS TO IS TO GET TPS REINSTATED

1:32:07AND THAT'S THROUGH PRESSURE TO

1:32:08THE ADMINISTRATION PRESSURE TO

1:32:10THE SENATE.

1:32:10AND IF WE HAVE A NEW

1:32:12CONFIGURATION IN WASHINGTON IN

1:32:14JANUARY, PRESSURE TO GET A NEW

1:32:16BILL THROUGH THE HOUSE AND THE

1:32:17SENATE AND AGAIN, BOSTON CAN

1:32:19PLAY A LEADERSHIP ROLE.

1:32:21UM, I'D LIKE TO TALK BRIEFLY

1:32:23ABOUT THE THE DANGERS IN HAITI

1:32:26.

1:32:26UM, THE THREE LARGEST

1:32:28DEPARTMENTS IN HAITI ARE

1:32:30LARGELY UNDER ARMED GROUP

1:32:32CONTROL.

1:32:33UM, HAITI'S TALKING ABOUT

1:32:34HAVING ELECTIONS BUT THAT'S

1:32:35LIKE HAVING AN ELECTION IN

1:32:36MASSACHUSETTS WHEN ARMED GROUPS

1:32:38ARE COMPLETELY CONTROLLING

1:32:39BOSTON AND WORCESTER AND

1:32:41SPRINGFIELD, IT'S NOT GOING TO

1:32:42BE POSSIBLE TO HAVE A FAIR

1:32:43ELECTION.

1:32:44UM, OVER 10,000 PEOPLE WERE

1:32:47REPORTED.

1:32:48THIS IS WHAT WAS DOCUMENTED AND

1:32:49AND IT'S BEYOND THE TOTAL

1:32:51AMOUNT OVER 10,000 PEOPLE WERE

1:32:53WERE UM WERE UH KILLED IN GANG

1:32:56VIOLENCE IN HAITI IN 2026.

1:32:59IT LOOKS LIKE 2025 IT LOOKS

1:33:01LIKE THOSE NUMBERS ARE GOING UP

1:33:03.

1:33:04UM THE COUNTRY IS IN A IS IN A

1:33:08UH A SOCIAL CRISIS AS WELL.

1:33:11IT'S ONE OF THE TOP FIVE

1:33:12HUNGRIEST COUNTRIES IN THE

1:33:14UNITED AND IN THE WORLD.

1:33:16UM, THE U.N. JUST CAME OUT WITH

1:33:18A REPORT ESTIMATING THAT

1:33:19250,000 KIDS ARE FACING FAMINE

1:33:21RIGHT NOW.

1:33:22UH, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY

1:33:24EPIDEMIC SEXUAL ASSAULT AS THE

1:33:26ARMED GROUPS USE USE SEXUAL

1:33:28ASSAULT AS A WAY TO CONTROL

1:33:30WOMEN AND GIRLS.

1:33:32IT'S AGAIN KENNETH CONCANNON.

1:33:34LET ME ASK YOU A.

1:33:35QUESTION WHAT SHOULD THE UNITED

1:33:37STATES BE DOING.

1:33:39>> RIGHT NOW?

1:33:40WHAT SHOULD WE BE DOING?

1:33:42UM.

1:33:43>> SO YOU.

1:33:43>> KNOW, THERE'S A VERY LONG

1:33:44TERM ANSWER TO THAT AND THE

1:33:46SHORT TERM ANSWER THE LONG TERM

1:33:48IS THAT THE UNITED STATES NEEDS

1:33:50TO SUPPORT AN INDEPENDENT

1:33:53STRONG GOVERNMENT IN HAITI.

1:33:54THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE NEVER

1:33:55DONE.

1:33:56UM, HAITI BECAME AN INDEPENDENT

1:33:59COUNTRY AS A RESULT OF OF UM

1:34:02FORMERLY ENSLAVED PEOPLE SELF

1:34:04EMANCIPATING, UH, THE UNITED

1:34:05STATES ALONG WITH MANY OF THE

1:34:07OTHER WEALTHY COUNTRIES IN THE

1:34:08WORLD HAVE NEVER FORGIVEN HAITI

1:34:09FOR THAT AND WE NEED TO AND WE

1:34:12PREVENTED HAITI FROM SERVING

1:34:14ITS ROLE AS A A LEADER IN IN UM

1:34:18IN RACIAL JUSTICE IN THE WORLD.

1:34:19WE HAVE NOT ALLOWED HAITI TO DO

1:34:21THAT.

1:34:22THAT'S BEEN A BIPARTISAN POLICY

1:34:23AND OBVIOUSLY THAT NEEDS TO

1:34:24STOP IN TERMS OF MORE SHORT

1:34:26TERM THINGS WE NEED TO WE'RE

1:34:28CURRENTLY SUPPORTING A

1:34:29GOVERNMENT THAT IS SUPPORTING

1:34:31THE GANGS.

1:34:32UM, WE ARE YOU KNOW, EVEN

1:34:34HAITI'S LAST PRESIDENT UH A

1:34:36SECOND LAST LAST UM MOST RECENT

1:34:38LIVING PRESIDENT MICHEL

1:34:40MARTELLY WHO THE UNITED STATES

1:34:41SUPPORTED TO AGAIN BIPARTISAN

1:34:43SUPPORT HE'S RUNNING FOR

1:34:44PRESIDENT IN THE ELECTIONS UH,

1:34:45FOR IN DECEMBER AND UM HE'S

1:34:48BEEN SANCTIONED BY THE UNITED

1:34:50STATES FOR UH, SUPPORTING GANGS

1:34:52AND RUNNING DRUGS.

1:34:53BUT WE WE KNEW HE WAS DOING

1:34:55THAT AND WE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT

1:34:56IT.

1:34:56THE U.S. CONTINUES TO SUPPORT

1:34:59PEOPLE IN HAITI BECAUSE THEY

1:35:01WILL OBEY THE U.S. ORDERS, NOT

1:35:03BECAUSE THEY'LL REPRESENT THE

1:35:05THE WISHES OF THE HAITIAN

1:35:06PEOPLE.

1:35:06THAT OBVIOUSLY NEEDS TO CHANGE.

1:35:08WE NEED MOST OF THE GUNS IN

1:35:10HAITI.

1:35:10HAITI DOESN'T MAKE ANY GUNS.

1:35:11THOSE GUNS ARE ALL COMING FROM

1:35:13THE UNITED STATES, MOSTLY FROM

1:35:15FLORIDA.

1:35:15WE NEED TO STOP THAT.

1:35:17THANK YOU.

1:35:18>> THANK THANK YOU,

1:35:21MR CONCANNON.

1:35:21UM.

1:35:22>> UM, SO JUST ONE MORE POINT

1:35:24ON ON THE CONDITIONS IN HAITI,

1:35:26THERE ARE 1.5 MILLION PEOPLE IN

1:35:29HAITI WHO ARE DISPLACED BY

1:35:30ARMED GROUP VIOLENCE.

1:35:32JUST TO PUT THAT INTO

1:35:34PERSPECTIVE, 1.5 MILLION PEOPLE

1:35:38IS EVERYBODY IN BOSTON PLUS

1:35:40EVERYBODY IN WORCESTER PLUS

1:35:42SPRINGFIELD, CAMBRIDGE, LOWELL

1:35:45,BROCKTON AND NEW BEDFORD.

1:35:46THAT IS HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE OUT

1:35:48OUT OF THEIR HOUSES BY AS A

1:35:50RESULT OF GANG VIOLENCE.

1:35:51THANK YOU.

1:35:52THANK YOU MR CAN CAN I SAID

1:35:54LOUIJEUNE.

1:35:55>> YOU HAVE FOUR MINUTES FOR.

1:35:58THAT SINCE LAST.

1:35:59TIME I KNOW THAT'S WHY.

1:36:01YOU GO FOR IT NOW.

1:36:03OKAY WELL I KNOW I'M GOING TO

1:36:05NEED MORE THAN FOUR SO I'M I'M

1:36:06JUST GOING TO SAY SO HOPEFULLY

1:36:10WE'LL DO A SECOND ROUND.

1:36:10LET'S GO ASK MY MY.

1:36:13LET'S START WITH FOUR.

1:36:14OKAY AND WE'LL.

1:36:15GO TO.

1:36:16>> A SECOND AND.

1:36:16THIRD ROUND IF.

1:36:17NECESSARY ALL RIGHT THANK YOU.

1:36:19UM I WANT TO THANK ALL OF THE

1:36:20NEW YOUNG PEOPLE TO TO HAVE A

1:36:22NEW FRIEND LIKE BRIAN I JUST

1:36:23LIKE YOU KNOW I KNOW WE'VE BEEN

1:36:24IN THIS FIGHT FOR SO LONG LIKE

1:36:26THE FIGHT FOR AGAINST

1:36:30ANTI-BLACKNESS, THE FIGHT FOR

1:36:32OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES, THE

1:36:33FIGHT FOR A FREE HAITI HAS BEEN

1:36:36ONGOING SINCE 1804.

1:36:38UM, AND WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE

1:36:39FOR US REALLY TO EXPERIENCE THE

1:36:41BEAUTY OF WHAT IT MEANS TO HAVE

1:36:43HAD THE ONLY COUNTRY FOUNDED IN

1:36:44THE WORLD FROM A SLAVE REVOLT

1:36:46TO HAVE THEM TO BE ABLE TO

1:36:47STAND ON THEIR FEET?

1:36:49UM AND SO THERE'S SO MUCH GOING

1:36:51IN IN THAT UM I ALSO JUST

1:36:52WANTED TO STATE THAT THIS

1:36:54EVENING AT UM 6 P.M. AT SEARLE

1:36:57ONLINE UH, IN DORCHESTER

1:36:58THEY'RE FILMING A MOVIE BRIAN'S

1:37:01AS YOU MENTIONED IT CALLED THE

1:37:03FORGOTTEN UM, OCCUPATION JIM

1:37:04CROW GOES TO HAITI WHICH TELLS

1:37:06THE STORY ACTUALLY FOR ANYONE

1:37:07WHO WAS INTERESTED OF HOW THE

1:37:10UNITED STATES HAS HAD ITS FOOT

1:37:12ON HIS NECK FOR A VERY LONG

1:37:14TIME.

1:37:15UM, AND SO ANYONE WHO WANTS TO

1:37:17LEARN MORE ABOUT THAT UM, SHOUT

1:37:18OUT TO GINA AND THE TEAM OVER

1:37:20AT HARLEM LINE THIS HAS PUT ON

1:37:22IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BOSTON

1:37:23DSA AND OTHERS UM, JUST ABOUT

1:37:26WHAT WE'RE EXPERIENCING AND

1:37:27WANT TO THANK THE FILMMAKER FOR

1:37:30UH, COMING OUT TO MAKE SURE

1:37:32WE'RE ABLE TO SEE UH, THAT FILM

1:37:34ALLEN MARTIN AND I KNOW THAT

1:37:36JULIANNE, THE MAYOR'S HAITIAN

1:37:38LIAISON HAS BEEN REALLY

1:37:39INVOLVED.

1:37:40UM, I WANT ALSO SOMETHING THAT

1:37:43DIDN'T COME UP.

1:37:44WE ARE OFTEN GETTING THESE

1:37:45SCARES ABOUT ISIS HERE, ISIS

1:37:47THERE.

1:37:49UM, AND EVERYONE AND I DO WANT

1:37:51TO THANK THE COMMISSIONER

1:37:53COMMISSIONER MICHAEL COX

1:37:53BECAUSE HE'S ALWAYS THE FIRST

1:37:55CALL TO CONFIRM, UH, WHAT'S

1:37:57HAPPENING, ESPECIALLY IF WE

1:37:59LIKE IF THERE'S ANY SCINTILLA

1:38:01OF AN IDEA THAT THERE MAY BE,

1:38:03UH, A BOSTON POLICE OFFICER CAR

1:38:05OR SOMETHING INVOLVED.

1:38:06I THINK THAT WAS A SCARE THAT

1:38:07WAS HAPPENED RECENTLY.

1:38:08UM, AND WE'RE ABLE TO FIGURE IT

1:38:09OUT.

1:38:10SO I DO WANT TO THANK HIM AND

1:38:11THE ZOO AND THE SUPERINTENDENTS

1:38:12FOR THEIR, UM, DILIGENCE IN

1:38:14TRYING TO MAKE SURE WHEN WE

1:38:15KNOW WHEN PEOPLE ARE AND AREN'T

1:38:17IN OUR CITY.

1:38:18UM, UH, WANTED TO TALK AND YOU.

1:38:22KNOW, UH UH, BRIAN, YOU.

1:38:24MENTIONED THE CURRENT VIOLENCE.

1:38:26I WE'D BE REMISS NOT TO MENTION

1:38:27WHAT HAPPENED IN, UH, THE

1:38:29PEACEFUL TOWN OF KEN SCARFE

1:38:31JUST A MONTH AGO WHERE GANGS

1:38:34BLUDGEONED AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY

1:38:37KILLING 47 PEOPLE, UM, INJURING

1:38:41MORE THAN 50.

1:38:42THESE ARE THE REALITIES THAT

1:38:43ARE NOT OUR PEOPLE, OUR FAMILY

1:38:47MEMBERS, OUR OUR COMMUNITIES

1:38:49ARE FACING, YOU KNOW, THAT ARE

1:38:50VERY REAL AND ARE VERY.

1:38:53LIKE AND SO, YOU KNOW, I I WANT

1:38:56TO UPLIFT THE WORK OF THE

1:38:58NATIONAL TPS COMMITTEE, DORIS

1:38:59AND UH, SO MANY INCREDIBLE

1:39:01PEOPLE.

1:39:02MY FATHER AND I HOPPED ON THE

1:39:03BUS WITH THEM TO GO DOWN AND

1:39:05PROTEST IN FRONT OF THE SUPREME

1:39:06COURT.

1:39:07BUT WE'VE SEEN THIS

1:39:09ADMINISTRATION DO SOMETHING

1:39:10INTERESTING WITH EL SALVADOR

1:39:12TPS AND I'M WONDERING AND I

1:39:15WANT TPS EXTENDED FOR ALL

1:39:17OF THE COUNTRIES THAT CONTINUE

1:39:18TO HAVE THE COUNTRY CONDITIONS

1:39:20THAT WOULD ALLOW REQUIRE AN

1:39:22EXTENSION OF TPS.

1:39:24BUT BRIAN, IF YOU COULD EXPLAIN

1:39:25TO US THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN

1:39:26HOW THIS ADMINISTRATION IS

1:39:28TREATED, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE

1:39:29TALKING ABOUT COUNTRY

1:39:30CONDITIONS AND HOW IT'S HOW IT

1:39:32I'M LEADING YOU TO THIS IS A

1:39:33LEADING QUESTION WHAT THEY

1:39:34WOULD SAY IN A COURT BUT HOW IT

1:39:36JUST AFFIRMS THAT WHAT WE ARE

1:39:38SEEING IS RACISM ROOTED IN

1:39:42ANTI-BLACKNESS BECAUSE

1:39:43OTHERWISE NONE OF THIS MAKES

1:39:44SENSE.

1:39:44YOU.

1:39:47UM SURE.

1:39:48YOU KNOW, JUST ONE QUICK UPDATE

1:39:49ON THE KEN.

1:39:50SCOTT NUMBERS.

1:39:51UM, YOU KNOW, THE 47 IS WHAT

1:39:53WAS INITIALLY REPORTED.

1:39:54A REPORT JUST CAME OUT EARLIER

1:39:55THIS WEEK THAT WAS UH PUTTING

1:39:57AT 165 UM AFTER MORE THOROUGH

1:40:00INVESTIGATION REALLY HORRIFIC.

1:40:01IT WASN'T A SURPRISE THAT THAT

1:40:03MASSACRE HAPPENED LATE AUGUST.

1:40:04THERE BEEN A MASSACRE IN JULY.

1:40:05THERE HAVE BEEN MASSACRE IN

1:40:07JULY IN JANUARY OF 2025.

1:40:09AND KEN SCOTT WAS SUCH A

1:40:10CRITICAL AREA THAT THE U.S

1:40:12GOVERNMENT, THE U.N. AND HAITI

1:40:13GOT TOGETHER AND SAY THIS IS

1:40:14HOW WE'RE GOING TO PROTECT KEN

1:40:15SCOTT.

1:40:16BUT IN THE MONTHS THAT FOLLOWED

1:40:17THEY GOT RID OF 60% OF THE

1:40:19POLICE THAT THEY HAD SENT THERE

1:40:20TO PUT IN THAT PLAN.

1:40:22A WEEK BEFORE THE MASSACRE THEY

1:40:23TOOK OUT THE LAST ARMORED CAR

1:40:24BECAUSE THERE WAS NO POLICE

1:40:25OFFICER TO DRIVE IT.

1:40:26SO THAT JUST SHOWS HOW THE

1:40:28HAITIAN POLICE IS IS EITHER

1:40:29UNWILLING OR UNABLE TO PROVIDE

1:40:32ANY PROTECTION, YOU KNOW AND

1:40:33OF COURSE HAITI HAS BEEN WAS

1:40:36WAS THE FIRST TPS THAT THE

1:40:37PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED HE WAS

1:40:38GOING TO HE WAS GOING TO END.

1:40:40UH.

1:40:41>> MEAN A WEEK AFTER HE CAME

1:40:43INTO OFFICE.

1:40:44HE ACTUALLY YOU KNOW, BEFORE HE

1:40:45EVEN GOT ELECTED.

1:40:46SO IN SEPTEMBER OF 2020, UH

1:40:49THREE HE WAS TALKING ABOUT

1:40:51ABOUT YOU KNOW, MAKING

1:40:52EXTREMELY RACIST AND VILE

1:40:53ACCUSATIONS ABOUT HAITIANS AND

1:40:55IN SPRINGFIELD, UM, OHIO.

1:40:57CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED WRONG BUT

1:40:59HE JUST KEPT MAKING UM AND SO

1:41:01THIS IS INSEPARABLE FROM FROM

1:41:03RACISM AND AND OBVIOUSLY, YOU

1:41:05KNOW, THERE'S THERE'S REASON TO

1:41:06HAVING TPS FOR EL SALVADOR BUT

1:41:08THERE'S NOWHERE WHAT THAT THE

1:41:10REASONS ARE AS COMPELLING AS

1:41:11THEY ARE FOR HAITI AND THERE'S

1:41:14NO GROUP NOW THE VENEZUELANS

1:41:16WERE LARGER THAN HATE THAN

1:41:18HAITI.

1:41:18BUT YOU KNOW, AFTER VENEZUELA

1:41:20HAITI IS BY FAR THE LARGEST

1:41:21GROUP OF TPS RECIPIENTS AND

1:41:23IT'S VERY CLEAR THEY'RE GOING

1:41:25UP AFTER HAITIANS.

1:41:26AND THEN WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT

1:41:27UH, PIERRE THOMAS BELTS, UM,

1:41:30YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS

1:41:31THAT THAT THAT UM THAT MADE HIM

1:41:36SO SAD AND DESPERATE WAS THE

1:41:37FACT THAT HE WAS WEARING ANKLE

1:41:39MONITOR AND THAT'S A DELIBERATE

1:41:41THAT THAT THAT WAS A

1:41:43DELIBERATELY PRODUCED RESULT

1:41:44OF THE STRATEGY.

1:41:45THEY DID NOT NEED AN ANKLE

1:41:48MONITOR TO FOLLOW HIM.

1:41:49HE WAS IN JUNIOR ROTC.

1:41:51HE WAS ON A SOCCER TEAM HE WAS

1:41:52ENROLLED IN IN PRE-MED CLASSES.

1:41:54HE WAS YOU KNOW, A VOLUNTEER.

1:41:56HE HAD A JOB.

1:41:57THEY COULD HAVE FOUND HIM

1:41:58OF ALL PEOPLE.

1:41:59UM, BUT THEY.

1:42:00DIDN'T NEED TO FIND HIM.

1:42:02THEY NEEDED HIM TO FEEL.

1:42:05DEHUMANIZED AND.

1:42:06UM.

1:42:07>> AND DISCRIMINATED AGAINST.

1:42:08YEAH.

1:42:09THANK YOU.

1:42:10>> AND QUICKLY JUST TO MENTION

1:42:12,UH, YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON

1:42:13RIGHT.

1:42:13NOW WITH.

1:42:14OPENING MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR

1:42:17PEOPLE FROM SOUTH AFRICA, WHITE

1:42:18PEOPLE FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO.

1:42:20COME TO THE US.

1:42:21AND EVERY SINGLE WEEK THEY ARE

1:42:24INCREASING THE NUMBERS OKAY FOR

1:42:25THEM TO COME.

1:42:26AND BEFORE THEY EVEN LEAD IS I

1:42:29MEAN HERE.

1:42:30EVERYTHING IS ALREADY WAITING

1:42:32FOR THEM.

1:42:33YOU KNOW EVEN THEIR WORK PERMIT

1:42:35IS WAITING FOR THEM BEFORE THEY

1:42:37EVEN LEAVE.

1:42:38COMPARED TO WHEN OUR PEOPLE

1:42:39WERE COMING HERE THEY HAD TO

1:42:41WAIT FOR MONTHS TO GET THE WORK

1:42:43PERMIT.

1:42:44THEY HAD TO WAIT FOR MONTHS TO

1:42:45GET ANY SPECIAL BENEFITS HERE

1:42:48WE ARE WITHIN THAT DECISION

1:42:50THAT IS OPENING DOORS TO SOUTH

1:42:53AFRICANS TO COME HERE WHITE

1:42:55STUFF UP AGAIN TO COME HERE

1:42:56WHILE CLOSING DOORS TO THEIR

1:42:58NEXT DOOR NEIGHBORS HAITI.

1:43:01SO I DON'T THINK THAT THE THE

1:43:02THEY ARE HIDING ANYTHING IN

1:43:04TERMS OF YOU KNOW YOU KNOW

1:43:05THEIR DESIRE TO DISCRIMINATE

1:43:07AGAINST YOU KNOW, BLACK PEOPLE.

1:43:08DOCTOR GABO IT SOUNDS JUST LIKE

1:43:11AFTER THE.

1:43:12EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION WAS

1:43:15ENACTED.

1:43:15THE FIRST THING THEY DID.

1:43:17WAS THEY GAVE THE WHITE FOLKS.

1:43:20HOMES AND.

1:43:21MORTGAGES AND PRECLUDED.

1:43:23BLACK FOLKS FROM EVEN.

1:43:24GETTING A MORTGAGE BUT.

1:43:26MORTGAGE THOSE THAT WERE

1:43:27QUALIFIED.

1:43:28MHM.

1:43:28>> UH UNTIL.

1:43:29COUNCIL WERE HERE.

1:43:31I MEAN I'LL.

1:43:32>> GIVE YOU FOUR MINUTES AND

1:43:34THEN WE'LL GO TO COUNCIL.

1:43:35WEBER BECAUSE I DIDN'T ASK ANY

1:43:36QUESTIONS EXACTLY.

1:43:37I KNOW YOU USE ALL YOUR TIME.

1:43:39I GOT GOING ONE QUESTION.

1:43:41WELL I'LL WAIT FOR SECOND

1:43:42BECAUSE I HAVE MORE.

1:43:43>> OKAY.

1:43:43COULD I.

1:43:44COULD COME HERE AND FOUR.

1:43:48>> MINUTES.

1:43:48AND AS YOU SHOULD RESPECT THE

1:43:50LEAD SPONSOR WHO HAS BEEN.

1:43:52DEDICATING A LOT OF HER TIME

1:43:54AND HER STAFF'S ENERGY TO

1:43:56SUPPORTING THIS ISSUE.

1:43:57SO I WOULD I WOULD I WOULD UH

1:44:00SECOND THE.

1:44:01YOU HAVE FOR.

1:44:02ME UH, I KNOW I'M USING MY FOUR

1:44:05MINUTES TO ADVOCATE FOR MY

1:44:05COLLEAGUES.

1:44:06YES I AGREE UH.

1:44:08OH HE'S TRYING TO CONTROL

1:44:09EVERYTHING HERE TODAY.

1:44:10UH, NORMALLY THAT'S MY ROLE.

1:44:12PLEASE STOP IT.

1:44:13YOU TAUGHT ME AND YOU TAUGHT

1:44:15ME.

1:44:16YOU KNOW AND YOU TAUGHT ME.

1:44:19OKAY, NOW YOU'RE USING MY TIME

1:44:20.

1:44:21OKAY?

1:44:21NO, BUT, UM, I JUST WANT TO

1:44:23THANK YOU ALL FOR IN THIS

1:44:27MOMENT WHERE WE'RE EXPERIENCING

1:44:29SO MUCH, IT'S ORGANIZATIONS

1:44:31LIKE YOURS THAT ARE STANDING IN

1:44:33THE FRONT LINE AND OFTENTIMES

1:44:35YOU DON'T KNOW EVEN KNOW WHERE

1:44:36TO GO.

1:44:38AND WE COME TO PEOPLE COME TO

1:44:40YOU AND THEN YOU HAVE TO

1:44:41REDIRECT THEM EVERYWHERE.

1:44:42I WANT TO FOCUS A LOT OF MY

1:44:44QUESTIONS AROUND THE SUPPORT UM

1:44:47AND FUNDING UM, BECAUSE I THINK

1:44:51THE CAPACITY IN THIS MOMENT IS

1:44:54GOING TO REQUIRE AND I KNOW UM,

1:44:57RONNIE, YOU TALKED A LOT ABOUT

1:45:00WHAT THE CITY CAN BE DOING AND

1:45:01SO DID YOU.

1:45:02DOCTOR DJIBO AND I WOULD LIKE

1:45:04TO HEAR SPECIFICS.

1:45:07UM, IN TERMS OF NUMBERS LIKE

1:45:11HOW MANY PEOPLE I KNOW YOU HAD

1:45:13MENTIONED SOME NUMBERS AND I

1:45:14KNOW YOU BOTH, BUT NOW WHAT

1:45:17WHAT ARE YOU SEEING?

1:45:18BECAUSE THE GRANTS HAVE COME

1:45:19OUT ALREADY NOW WE HAVE TO

1:45:20START THINKING ABOUT NEXT

1:45:21YEAR'S BUDGET IN TERMS

1:45:23OF REALLY MEETING THIS MOMENT.

1:45:25WHAT IS THE WHAT IS THE

1:45:27FINANCIAL UM OUTLOOK LOOKS LIKE

1:45:30?

1:45:33SO I MEAN AGAIN THE SITUATION

1:45:35THAT WE'RE FACING RIGHT NOW

1:45:37IT'S.

1:45:38SUCH AT.

1:45:40AN INCREDIBLE LEVEL OF YOU

1:45:42KNOW, UH UH UNKNOWN THAT IT'S

1:45:45ALMOST LIKE NO AMOUNT

1:45:47OF FUNDING WE'D BE ABLE TO

1:45:48REALLY HELP US TO DO WHAT WE

1:45:50ARE WE HAVE TO DO.

1:45:51BUT AGAIN, WE KNEW THAT WE MUST

1:45:54DO SOMETHING.

1:45:55SO THIS WEEK I THINK, UM, IS IT

1:45:57THIS WEEK OR LAST WEEK?

1:45:58UH, WE WERE ON THE CALL WITH

1:45:59BOTH YOU KNOW, THE HOUSING

1:46:01DEPARTMENT HERE, UH, THE

1:46:03COUNCIL ELECTION AND THE STATE

1:46:05TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WE ARE

1:46:06SEEING EVERY WEEK CLOSE TO 20

1:46:08FAMILIES ARE COMING TO OUR

1:46:10DOORS.

1:46:12WHY?

1:46:13>> BECAUSE THEY RECEIVE AN

1:46:14EVICTION LETTER BECAUSE THEY

1:46:16CANNOT PAY THEIR RENT.

1:46:17AND BECAUSE AGAIN HOME BASE IS

1:46:20NO LONGER, YOU KNOW, AVAILABLE

1:46:21TO THEM BECAUSE HOME IS A TWO

1:46:23YEAR PROGRAM WHERE THOSE PEOPLE

1:46:25HAVE ALREADY USED THEIR HOME

1:46:27BASE SO THEY DON'T HAVE THE

1:46:28SUPPORT THAT THEY NEED TO

1:46:30MAINTAIN, YOU KNOW THERE SO

1:46:32THINK ABOUT.

1:46:33UH IF SEE FOR EXAMPLE SERVING

1:46:35CLOSE TO 19,000 FAMILIES OVER

1:46:38THE COURSE OF 2024 TO 2025 AND

1:46:41OUT OF THOSE MATCHING TYSON,

1:46:44LET'S SAY THAT HALF OF THEM

1:46:46ONLY HAD TPS.

1:46:47SO YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER WE HAVE

1:46:49YOU KNOW TPS IS GOOD FOR

1:46:50EVERYONE BUT SOME TPS FAMILIES

1:46:53APPLIED FOR SALEM AND BECAUSE

1:46:55THEY APPLY FOR ASYLUM SOME

1:46:57OF THEM WE SEE THAT WORK FOR

1:46:58ME TOO THAT SO THIS GROUP AGAIN

1:47:00ALTHOUGH THEY ARE STILL LIVING

1:47:01IN FEAR BECAUSE EVEN WHEN YOU

1:47:03HAVE A PENDING APPLICATION.

1:47:05UH I DOES THAT WE SPEAK THAT IS

1:47:07I MEAN IF THEY MEET YOU YOU

1:47:09KNOW, THEY TAKE YOU.

1:47:10SO LET'S SAY THAT HALF OF THEM

1:47:12HAD APPLY FOR ASYLUM BUT THE

1:47:14OTHER HALF WHEN THEY APPLY THEY

1:47:16DID NOT EVEN RECEIVE THEIR WORK

1:47:18PERMIT ON TIME.

1:47:19SO WHICH MEANS THAT THOSE ARE

1:47:20PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW WITHOUT

1:47:22WORK.

1:47:23SO WHEN WE'RE THINKING ABOUT

1:47:25ALL OF THOSE FAMILIES WE WE

1:47:26RENTING AN APARTMENT AND NOW

1:47:28CANNOT AFFORD TO PAY FOR THE

1:47:30RENT, CANNOT AFFORD TO PAY FOOD

1:47:32ON THEIR TABLE, CANNOT EVEN

1:47:34AFFORD TO HAVE LEGAL BECAUSE

1:47:35AGAIN, NO MATTER HOW YOU PUT IT

1:47:38UH MACY.

1:47:39IS DOING A WONDERFUL JOB TO

1:47:41REPRESENT FAMILY IN THE COURT

1:47:42SYSTEM.

1:47:42BUT GUESS WHAT DEAR WAITLIST IS

1:47:45SO LONG THAT THERE IS NO WAY

1:47:47THAT THEY CAN REALLY SUPPORT

1:47:49EVERYONE AND THAT'S THE REASON

1:47:50WHY WE NEED TO BE NOTHING ELSE

1:47:51OUTSIDE OF THE BOX.

1:47:53WHAT CAN WE DO?

1:47:54HOW DO WE BRING THOSE LAW FIRMS

1:47:56?

1:47:56HOW DO WE BRING THOSE

1:47:57UNIVERSITIES?

1:47:57HOW DO WE BRING ALL OF THE

1:47:59SCHOOLS TO COME IN SUPPORT

1:48:01BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY THAT

1:48:02ANY ONE OF US CAN DO THIS WORK

1:48:04BUILT ON.

1:48:05SO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT

1:48:06FUNDING ESPECIALLY LIKE LAW FOR

1:48:08AN ORGANIZATION LIKE US BECAUSE

1:48:11WE IN ONE STOP SERVICE CENTER

1:48:12ORGANIZATION MEANING THAT WE

1:48:14ARE TOUCHING ON DIFFERENT AREAS

1:48:16OF SOMEONE'S LIFE, THERE IS

1:48:18ABSOLUTELY NO FUNDING THAT

1:48:19COULD HELP US DO THE WORK THAT

1:48:21WE ARE DOING IF WE DIDN'T HAVE

1:48:23VOLUNTEERS, IF WE DON'T HAVE,

1:48:24YOU KNOW, ALL THE NETWORK

1:48:26AROUND US WE WOULD HAVE CREWS

1:48:28OUT THOSE LONG TIME PEOPLE.

1:48:29SO YEAH.

1:48:29JUST IF YOU ALREADY.

1:48:32STARTED WE CAN GO FOREVER BUT.

1:48:35ABOUT UH.

1:48:36COUNSELOR MOORE HERE HAS JUST.

1:48:38FINISHED HER TIME.

1:48:40UH, YOU.

1:48:41>> CAN FINISH.

1:48:41>> HER ANSWER THEN WE'RE GOING

1:48:43TO MOVE ON.

1:48:43>> TO COUNCIL.

1:48:44WEBER AND.

1:48:45>> THEN WE'RE GOING TO COME

1:48:46BACK FOR A SECOND.

1:48:46ROUND AND WE'LL START WITH

1:48:49COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

1:48:50YOU KNOW I HAVE TO LEAVE SO

1:48:51IT'S OKAY.

1:49:00WELL AWKWARD BECAUSE I DO HAVE

1:49:03A HARD STOP SO I WANTED TO JUST

1:49:04FINISH AND I WANT TO THINK IS

1:49:05THAT OKAY?

1:49:07UM BUT YOU KNOW I THINK WHAT

1:49:11I'LL JUST END WITH I'M NOT

1:49:12GOING TO EVEN ASK ANOTHER

1:49:13QUESTION.

1:49:13I'LL JUST END WITH THIS IS THAT

1:49:14THIS WHOLE IDEA OF BEING

1:49:16INNOVATIVE AND THINKING OUTSIDE

1:49:17THE BOX IS EXACTLY THE TYPE

1:49:20OF CONVERSATIONS THAT WE SHOULD

1:49:21BE HAVING BECAUSE WE HAVE THE

1:49:23BCF CENTERS, WE HAVE THE YMCA,

1:49:24WE HAVE THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB

1:49:26THAT ARE NOT OPERATING AT NIGHT

1:49:28AND THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES THERE

1:49:30FOR HOW DO WE UTILIZE SOME

1:49:31OF THE SPACES THAT WE HAVE

1:49:33PUBLICLY FOR SHELTER?

1:49:36YOU KNOW, I ALSO THINK THAT

1:49:37THERE ARE A LOT OF EMPTY UNITS

1:49:39OF RENTAL EMPTY UNITS BECAUSE

1:49:41LANDLORDS DON'T WANT TO RENT IN

1:49:43THIS MOMENT.

1:49:43HOW DO WE ENGAGE SOME OF THESE

1:49:46LANDLORDS?

1:49:47I THINK I WOULD BE INTERESTED

1:49:49IN THE ALTERNATIVES OF WHAT WE

1:49:51CAN BE DOING NOW BECAUSE NO

1:49:54AMOUNT OF MONEY IS GOING TO

1:49:56SOLVE IT.

1:49:56SO THEN WE NEED TO REALLY START

1:49:57TAPPING INTO THE GREATER

1:49:58COMMUNITY.

1:49:59I'M NOT GOING TO ASK ANY

1:50:00QUESTIONS BECAUSE I WANT TO BE

1:50:01RESPECTFUL OF MY COLLEAGUES AND

1:50:02THANK YOU.

1:50:03THANK YOU.

1:50:03>> THANK YOU COUNCIL MAYOR.

1:50:05COUNCIL WEBER.

1:50:06SURE THING.

1:50:07>> THANK YOU.

1:50:08SO, UM OKAY, JUST TO START UH,

1:50:12SO FOR MR CONCANNON, YOU

1:50:14MENTIONED THREE DEMOCRATS HAD

1:50:16SIGNED UP IN THE SENATE HAVE

1:50:19NOT SIGNED YOU HAVE NOT SIGNED

1:50:20WHO WHO ARE THEY?

1:50:21UM, SENATOR BALDWIN, SENATOR

1:50:25PETERS AND.

1:50:26SENATOR KELLY.

1:50:27OKAY.

1:50:27AND THEN UH, BECAUSE I, I, I, I

1:50:31PARTICIPATED IN SOME OF THE THE

1:50:33PHONE CALLING THAT UH THAT

1:50:35EVERYONE SET UP AND THANK YOU

1:50:37I'M SURE THE CALL FROM THE

1:50:38DISTRICT SIX CITY

1:50:39COUNCILOR DIDN'T SWAY ANYONE.

1:50:41UH, I'M HAPPY TO KEEP DOING

1:50:43THAT.

1:50:43AND, UH, SOMEBODY WHO'S LIVED

1:50:46IN TENNESSEE AND WENT TO LAW

1:50:48SCHOOL IN IOWA, I KNOW PLENTY

1:50:50OF PEOPLE WHO WERE DATING

1:50:52SOMEBODY WHO USED TO KNOW

1:50:53SOMEBODY WHO WORKS IN PEOPLE'S

1:50:55OFFICES.

1:50:55SO I'M GOING TO I'M.

1:50:57>> HAPPY TO TRY.

1:50:58PARTICULARLY GOOD BECAUSE

1:50:58THERE'S A THERE'S A ELECTORALLY

1:51:01VULNERABLE REPUBLICAN.

1:51:03YEAH.

1:51:03>> YEAH.

1:51:04NO I HAVE A FORMER CLASSMATES

1:51:05ARE RUNNING FOR ATTORNEY

1:51:06GENERAL ONE UM ANYWAY SO I'M

1:51:10HAPPY TO HELP THERE UH UM I

1:51:13GUESS SO JUST IN TERMS OF I

1:51:18THINK THIS IS UH MAYBE MORE FOR

1:51:20UH, MR MENTOR BUT UH AND DOCTOR

1:51:23GABEL, IS THERE SOMETHING THAT

1:51:25WE CAN THAT YOU CAN FILE NOW

1:51:27WHICH PRESERVES PEOPLE'S RIGHTS

1:51:30FOR ME, I JUST I DID SOME

1:51:32ASYLUM CASES AS A LAW STUDENT.

1:51:34UH, YOU WOULD I BUT.

1:51:37UM.

1:51:38>> YOU KNOW WHAT IS THE MOST

1:51:40EFFECTIVE TOOL TO BE LIKE?

1:51:42IS THERE ONE AND, UH, I GUESS

1:51:44ONE I WAS THINKING OF IS GUEST

1:51:46WORKER STATUS FOR EMPLOYERS

1:51:47SHOULD THE EMPLOYERS BE FILING

1:51:50SOMETHING?

1:51:51UH, BUT I'M JUST INTERESTED IN

1:51:52LIKE, YOU KNOW.

1:51:54>> THEN YOU.

1:51:54CAME FROM THE LAW SIDE.

1:51:55WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GETTING

1:51:56THESE LAW FIRMS IN THERE.

1:51:57BUT WHAT SHOULD WE BE?

1:51:59WHAT DO WE WANT THEM TO BE

1:52:00DOING?

1:52:01DOING?

1:52:02>> UM, YEAH.

1:52:03I MEAN.

1:52:04THE TRUE ANSWER IS.

1:52:06>> I'M NOT, UH, A.

1:52:07LAW EXPERT MYSELF.

1:52:09UM, AND SO I'M NOT GOING TO

1:52:10GIVE AN ANSWER THAT WOULD.

1:52:12SATISFY YOU HERE.

1:52:13UM.

1:52:15>> THE TRUTH IS.

1:52:16>> I MEAN, THE.

1:52:17REALITY IS.

1:52:18>> THERE'S NOT MUCH RIGHT, UH,

1:52:21FOR AN ISSUE.

1:52:22>> THAT WE FEEL.

1:52:23HAS TO BE RESOLVED AT THE

1:52:25FEDERAL LEVEL.

1:52:26UM.

1:52:27>> AND SO.

1:52:28I CAN I CAN CHECK WITH OUR.

1:52:30ATTORNEY STAFF, UH, AND GET

1:52:32BACK TO YOU.

1:52:32>> BUT I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT I

1:52:34DID, NOT I THE HARDEST PART

1:52:36ABOUT PRACTICING IMMIGRATION

1:52:38LAW WAS LIKE YOU'RE.

1:52:39YOU'RE YOU'RE.

1:52:40YOU'RE NOT GOING BEFORE LIKE AN

1:52:42IMPARTIAL JUDGE.

1:52:43YOU'RE GOING IN LIKE YOU'RE

1:52:44PLAYING ON THEIR FIELD AND

1:52:46YOU'RE ASKING THEM TO DO

1:52:48SOMETHING.

1:52:49I NEVER ENJOYED THAT.

1:52:51IT'S A YOU KNOW OBVIOUSLY IT'S

1:52:52VERY DIFFICULT FIGHT AND I

1:52:54THINK EVERYONE WHO GOES INTO

1:52:56THAT SORRY.

1:52:56CAN I SAID ONE QUICK.

1:52:58UH UH RESPONSE TO THAT.

1:53:00SO THERE'S UM A.

1:53:01>> GROUP.

1:53:01OF IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ARE

1:53:02PREPARING WHAT'S CALLED A UM UM

1:53:05AN OMNIBUS MOTION TO PREVENT

1:53:08ALL DEPORTATIONS TO HAITI.

1:53:10THEY'RE ACTUALLY.

1:53:11HOPING TO GET THAT DONE THIS

1:53:12WEEK.

1:53:12YES.

1:53:13UM, AND THE IDEA IS THEY'RE

1:53:14GOING TO GET IT OUT TO

1:53:15EVERYBODY AND EVERY IMMIGRATION

1:53:16LAWYER WANTS TO AT EVERY

1:53:18HEARING CAN GO IN AND SAY, YOU

1:53:20KNOW, AND THEN THE LETTER

1:53:21BASICALLY SAYS THAT IT'S

1:53:22COMPLETELY.

1:53:23LEGALLY AND MORALLY UNJUSTIFIED

1:53:24TO SEND ANYBODY BACK TO HAITI.

1:53:26IT'S NOT GOING TO CONVINCE ALL

1:53:27THE JUDGES THEY'RE HOPING THAT

1:53:28IT MIGHT CONVINCE SOME.

1:53:29BUT JUST YOU KNOW, IT'S ANOTHER

1:53:30TOOL.

1:53:31IN THE TOOLBOX.

1:53:31YEAH.

1:53:32OKAY.

1:53:32>> AND THEN WHAT ABOUT I MEAN

1:53:34SO FROM THE EMPLOYER SIDE I

1:53:36MEAN THEY CAN THEY CAN FILE FOR

1:53:38GUEST WORKER PROTECTION.

1:53:39THEY THEY CAN SAY I NEED I NEED

1:53:41THIS THESE PEOPLE OR THIS

1:53:44PERSON TO BE LIKE THE FOREIGN

1:53:46GUEST WORKER AND THAT GIVES

1:53:47THEM I THINK WORKER

1:53:48AUTHORIZATION I JUST AS ANY ANY

1:53:52DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THAT UM.

1:53:55I THINK THAT'S DIFFICULT I'VE

1:53:56BEEN INVOLVED IN A COUPLE

1:53:57OF CASES OF THEM AND IT'S A

1:53:59HIGH BAR.

1:53:59YOU HAVE TO PROVE THAT THERE'S.

1:54:00NO NO.

1:54:01>> DON'T WANT TO FILL OUT.

1:54:02THAT POSITION.

1:54:03NO, I MEAN I REPRESENTED

1:54:04MIGRANT FARMWORKERS AND A LOT

1:54:06OF THE GUEST WORKERS H-2A, H-2A

1:54:07H-2B WORKERS AND.

1:54:09THIS IS PRETTY MUCH RUBBER

1:54:11STAMPED.

1:54:11YOU JUST SAY LIKE I PUT AN AD

1:54:13IN THE YOU KNOW, IN THE I DON'T

1:54:16KNOW, LIKE CAT FANCY MAGAZINE

1:54:18FOR CONTINGENT WORKERS AND

1:54:19NOBODY RESPONDED THEREFORE

1:54:20THERE'S NOBODY WANTS TO DO THIS

1:54:22WORK BUT UH.

1:54:23>> BUT BUT WE DO NEED EMPLOYERS

1:54:24TO STEP UP BECAUSE AGAIN UH,

1:54:26YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SEEN THAT

1:54:29DESPITE EVERYTHING ELSE THAT IS

1:54:30GOING ON WE HAVE SEEN SOME

1:54:32SIGNS, YOU KNOW, OF VICTORY,

1:54:34YOU KNOW, IN THE IN THE COURT

1:54:35BECAUSE PEOPLE DO STEP UP.

1:54:37SO WHEN YOU TAKE THE FOR

1:54:39EXAMPLE THE HEALTH CARE

1:54:39INDUSTRY VOTE FOR EXAMPLE ON

1:54:41THE IMPACT OF LOSING SO MANY

1:54:44WORKERS.

1:54:45SO WE NEED ALL OF THE MAJOR

1:54:47EMPLOYERS TO START, YOU KNOW,

1:54:49SPEAKING OUT LOUD TO SAY THAT

1:54:52THERE IS NO WAY THAT WE CAN

1:54:53CONTINUE TO TO WORK LIKE THIS

1:54:55AND I THINK UH, YOU KNOW, WHEN

1:54:57WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THE

1:54:58ECONOMIC IMPACT OF TERMINATION

1:55:01IF ALL OF THE MAJOR EMPLOYERS

1:55:03WHERE TO RAISE THEIR VOICE IN

1:55:04TO DO SOMETHING, I BELIEVE THAT

1:55:07THEY WILL FIND, YOU KNOW, WAYS

1:55:09TO SUPPORT THE WORKERS THAT

1:55:10THEY ARE LOSING.

1:55:11BUT AGAIN, PEOPLE NEED TO YOU

1:55:13KNOW, YOU KNOW, TO HAVE THE

1:55:15COURAGE TO STAND UP AND SAY

1:55:17LET'S LET'S LET'S DO IT.

1:55:20UM YEAH.

1:55:20AND I UH I THINK AS YOU'RE

1:55:22TALKING ABOUT YOU KNOW, WHAT'S

1:55:24HAPPENING WITH WHITE SOUTH

1:55:25AFRICANS, YOU KNOW, REFUGEES

1:55:27AND IT'S A I'M PRETTY SURE THAT

1:55:30WHEN THE THE THE INITIAL

1:55:33CHALLENGES TO THE TERMINATION

1:55:34OF TPS STATUS THAT THERE WERE

1:55:36LIKE COURT DECISIONS FINDING

1:55:39LIKE ON THE RECORD OR ON A

1:55:41SUMMARY JUDGMENT RECORD THAT

1:55:42THE REASON FOR TERMINATING THEM

1:55:44WAS BASED ON RACIAL YEAH

1:55:46RACISM.

1:55:47YEAH RACIAL ANIMUS OR

1:55:48SOMETHING.

1:55:49UM AND SO I THINK IT'S LIKE IT

1:55:52JUST IT'S PLAIN THAT THE ONLY

1:55:55JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS IS JUST

1:55:57.

1:55:58IT'S JUST.

1:55:58FLAT OUT RACISM AND YOU KNOW,

1:56:01WE SEE YOU KNOW, LIKE WITH UH

1:56:04YOU KNOW, WITH THE ANKLE

1:56:05MONITORS AND THE WAY PEOPLE ARE

1:56:07GETTING DETAINED NEAR SCHOOLS

1:56:10OR LAUNDROMATS OR YOU KNOW, UH,

1:56:13THAT JUST IS JUST THERE'S THE

1:56:14INTENTION HERE IS TO INFLICT

1:56:17PAIN.

1:56:18UH, AND.

1:56:19SO THAT'S WHY I MEAN, I YOU

1:56:20KNOW, I JUST WANT TO.

1:56:23THANK COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

1:56:25HONESTLY FOR LEADING AND AND

1:56:28WE'RE YOU KNOW, I'M WHEREVER

1:56:30WHATEVER HOUSE WE ARE GOING TO

1:56:32I'LL I'LL BE BEHIND YOU.

1:56:34UH, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S ON FIRE

1:56:35AND I THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, I

1:56:37JUST WANT TO THANK THE

1:56:38PANELISTS I I HAVE SOME MORE

1:56:39QUESTIONS, BUT, UH, I I KNOW I

1:56:41DON'T WANT TO TAKE.

1:56:42ANY CHANCE.

1:56:43I'M AWARE I'M AWARE OF THE I

1:56:44CAN SEE I CAN SEE THAT FAR.

1:56:46AND I DID GIVE YOU EXTRA TIME.

1:56:49UH, I THINK THANK YOU VERY

1:56:51MUCH.

1:56:51WE HAVE ONE, UH, PERSON THAT

1:56:57WILL PRESENT FOR TWO MINUTES

1:56:59ON.

1:57:01ZOOM.

1:57:04AND THEN WE'LL COME RIGHT BACK

1:57:08TO COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

1:57:23UH MISS THAT.

1:57:31IT OKAY.

1:57:31>> YOU GUYS HEAR ME?

1:57:34YES.

1:57:36>> UH, GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.

1:57:38UH, THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE

1:57:39OPPORTUNITY TO TESTIFY AND BE A

1:57:41FEW OF MY COMMUNITY.

1:57:43UH, MY NAME IS GUITAR SAID THAT

1:57:44I'M A JOURNALIST AND ACTIVIST

1:57:46IN THE ASIAN COMMUNITY.

1:57:48UM, I WOULD JUST I WILL USE MY

1:57:51TWO MINUTES TO DESCRIBE THE

1:57:52SITUATION THAT WE HAVE MADE

1:57:53KNOWN TO HAITI.

1:57:54UH, MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE

1:57:56HERE IN THE LEFT HAITI.

1:57:58WHAT HAPPENED?

1:57:58YOU HAVE GREAT.

1:57:59AND IT CAME HERE LIKE, UH BUT

1:58:01PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS GOING TO

1:58:02ATTEND THE TPS, YOU KNOW, TO

1:58:05SEE IF THEY CAN LIKE HELP THE

1:58:06FAMILY BACK HOME.

1:58:08BUT MONTH AFTER MONTH HE UP TO

1:58:10THE COUNTRY STILL THE SAME.

1:58:12WE HAVE LIKE UH POLITICAL

1:58:14INSTABILITY AND THAT NEVER

1:58:15CHANGE.

1:58:15WE GOT SOME CORRUPT GOVERNMENT

1:58:17AND I NEVER DO ANYTHING FOR THE

1:58:19COUNTRY.

1:58:20SO THOSE PEOPLE UM THEY ARE

1:58:22DOCTORS, NURSES, ENGINEERS, UM

1:58:25ELECTRICIAN TECHNICIANS UM HVAC

1:58:28AC TECHNICIANS THEY'RE NOT THE

1:58:29PEOPLE THAT LIKE OH DID LIKE

1:58:30JUST JUST ONE DUMB PEOPLE AND

1:58:32THEY CAME IN NOT BECAUSE THEY

1:58:34CAME BECAUSE THEY LOOKING FOR

1:58:35LIKE ME TO STAY OR STEAL OR USE

1:58:38THE GOVERNMENT FUNDING HERE

1:58:40JUST BECAUSE IT WAS LOOKING FOR

1:58:41US FOR A PLACE SAFE, YOU KNOW,

1:58:43TO STAY WITH THE KIDS AND THEN

1:58:45TO GET A UH A BETTER FUTURE.

1:58:47SO AS I'M TALKING RIGHT NOW,

1:58:49THE PLACE THAT THEY USED TO

1:58:50LEAVE THE AREA THAT THEY USED

1:58:52TO LEAVE UH, TAKING BACK GAME.

1:58:56SO EVEN THOUGH THEY EVEN THOUGH

1:58:57THEY DECIDED TO GO BACK THEY

1:58:58DON'T HAVE NOWHERE TO STAY EVEN

1:58:59THOUGH IT'S THEIR COUNTRY THEIR

1:59:02HOUSE IS DESTROYED THE WAY THE

1:59:04GOING TAKE THE COUNTRY, EVERY

1:59:05AREA THEY OPERATE.

1:59:08YOU CANNOT IF YOU LIVE IN THE

1:59:10AREA YOU IF YOU GO IF YOU HAVE

1:59:11TO GO OUT YOU HAVE TO ASK THEM

1:59:13FOR PERMISSION.

1:59:13IF YOU HAVE TO COME TO UP TO

1:59:15THE HERE WE HAVE THE WE HAVE TO

1:59:17ASK THEM FOR PERMISSION SO IT'S

1:59:18NOT SAFE AT ALL FOR SOMEONE WHO

1:59:20LIVES IN THE US FOR TEN, 15, 20

1:59:23YEARS TO SEND BACK TO THIS

1:59:25COUNTRY.

1:59:26YES IT'S A IT'S THE COUNTRY WE

1:59:28WANT THEY WANT TO GO BACK.

1:59:30SO THAT WAY THAT'S WHERE THEY

1:59:32BELONG.

1:59:32THEY UNDERSTAND THAT BUT AS

1:59:34OF RIGHT NOW IT'S NOT SAFE FOR

1:59:36ANYONE ANYONE TO GO THERE.

1:59:40SO RECENTLY THERE WAS A WOMAN

1:59:41THAT IS THE DESCENT BACK THERE.

1:59:44SO TWO DAYS AFTER SHE GOT

1:59:45KIDNAPED AND KILLED WHILE SHE

1:59:48WAS LIVING HERE FOR 15 YEARS,

1:59:51SHE GOT TO AFTER TWO DAYS TO

1:59:53GET KIDNAPED BEEN KILLED.

1:59:56SO IMAGINE THAT YOUR SISTER

2:00:01HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT.

2:00:02IMAGINE THAT YOUR BLOOD THEY

2:00:04HAVE TO GO TO THAT.

2:00:08SO IF THERE'S ANYTHING GUYS YOU

2:00:09GUYS CAN DO TO HELP THIS

2:00:12COMMUNITY TO SURVIVE RIGHT NOW

2:00:14BECAUSE WAY NOW IT'S ALL

2:00:16DEPRESSION.

2:00:18PEOPLE ARE FEAR.

2:00:19THEY DON'T WANT TO GO TO

2:00:20CHURCH.

2:00:21THEY CAN GO ANYWHERE AND NOW

2:00:23THEY START LOSING HOUSE THAT

2:00:25THEY THAT THEY PUT THAT THEY

2:00:27WORK HARD FOR YEARS TO SAVE

2:00:30MONEY AND THEY ABOUT TO LOSE

2:00:32THOSE EFFORT.

2:00:34SO IT'S LIKE WHEN WE WHEN WHEN

2:00:36THEY LEFT HAITI THEY COME HERE

2:00:38TO START FROM ZERO.

2:00:39AND UP.

2:00:40SO NOW YOU WANT TO SEND THEM

2:00:41BACK TO START FROM ZERO IN

2:00:42OF HOW OLD THEY ARE.

2:00:44SO THINK ABOUT IT HOW YOU GUYS

2:00:46CAN DO.

2:00:47I KNOW THIS IS UH A FEDERAL

2:00:50LEVEL THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE

2:00:52RESOLVED.

2:00:52BUT I KNOW YOU GUYS CAN PUT

2:00:54PRESSURE OR IN THE CITY WHAT WE

2:00:56CAN DO TO HELP THESE PEOPLE TO

2:00:57FEEL SAFE.

2:00:58AS OF YESTERDAY, I SPENT THE

2:01:00WHOLE DAY IN BROCKTON CREATING

2:01:03FEAR IN THE COMMUNITY.

2:01:05YOU BET FOR THE SAME TEAM SO

2:01:08THEY DON'T RESPECT ANYTHING AT

2:01:09ALL.

2:01:10I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS CAN DO

2:01:12ANYTHING TO ENFORCE THIS SO

2:01:13THAT YOU CAN AT LEAST SLOW THEM

2:01:14DOWN.

2:01:15I KNOW YOU GUYS CAN STOP THEM

2:01:17BUT THERE'S A WAY TO SLOW THEM

2:01:18DOWN.

2:01:19SO THIS COMMUNITY THEY NEED

2:01:20HELP.

2:01:20WE KNOW IT'S ELECTION TIME.

2:01:24SO THE COMMUNITY OF THE

2:01:26COMMUNITY IS WATCHING.

2:01:27WE'RE SUPPORTING THE COMMUNITY.

2:01:29WE ARE WATCHING.

2:01:31WHO'S THERE FOR US?

2:01:33WHO'S ALWAYS THE HAND FOR US TO

2:01:36SURVIVE THIS CRISIS?

2:01:39WE DON'T WANT TO WE WE DIDN'T

2:01:41COME HERE BY CHOICE.

2:01:43WE COME HERE BY FORCE.

2:01:46OUR LEADERS BACK HOME.

2:01:47THEY DON'T DO A GOOD JOB EVERY

2:01:49TIME THEY TAKE POWER.

2:01:50AND MOST OF THE TIME THE US

2:01:52GOVERNMENT ARE THE ONES WHO

2:01:53PICK AND CHOOSE, WHO HAVE TO GO

2:01:55TO WHO HAVE TO BE THE PRESIDENT

2:01:57OF HAITI.

2:01:58THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED AND THAT'S

2:02:00THE REASON THE COUNTRY BECOME

2:02:02WORSE AND WORSE AND WORSE AND

2:02:03WORSE.

2:02:03WE CAN'T LEAVE ANYTHING.

2:02:07SO PLEASE GUYS, IF THERE'S

2:02:08SOMETHING YOU CAN DO, DO IT

2:02:10BECAUSE WE'VE GOT PEOPLE THAT

2:02:12HAVE KIDS HERE THAT GIVES UP 16

2:02:14YEAR LIKE 16 YEARS, 17 YEARS, 5

2:02:19OR 5 YEARS OLD YOU'RE GOING TO

2:02:20SEND THOSE BACK.

2:02:22HOW ARE THEY GOING TO GO TO

2:02:23SCHOOL?

2:02:23HOW THEY'RE GOING TO GO LIKE

2:02:25THERE'S A COUNTRY THAT DOESN'T

2:02:26HAVE ANY INFRASTRUCTURE.

2:02:28NOTHING AT ALL.

2:02:30SO I KNOW THEY ARE TALKING

2:02:31ABOUT ELECTION.

2:02:32THERE'S NO WAY THIS ELECTION

2:02:34WOULD BE FAIR IF THIS IF THE IF

2:02:37IT HAPPEN IS GOING TO BE THE

2:02:39SAME HOLDING THE U.S GOVERNMENT

2:02:41GOING TO PICK AND CHOOSE WHO

2:02:42THEY NEED TO BE THE PRESIDENT

2:02:45WHO THEY CAN HAVE EASY ACCESS

2:02:47TO, WHO CAN DO THE JOB.

2:02:48PLEASE WRAP UP.

2:02:51SO PLEASE IF YOU GUYS CAN DO

2:02:55SOMETHING RIGHT NOW.

2:02:56TO HELP THE HAITIAN WHO LIVES

2:02:59HERE IN IN BOSTON,

2:03:00MASSACHUSETTS UH, IT'S AN

2:03:02EMERGENCY.

2:03:02DO IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

2:03:04THANK YOU.

2:03:04THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.

2:03:06THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:03:14THIS.

2:03:15THOSE YOUNG.

2:03:16WE'LL GIVE YOU FIVE MINUTES.

2:03:19THANK YOU.

2:03:20UM, MY FIRST QUESTION IS FOR

2:03:22MORONI.

2:03:22WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE AND

2:03:24MAKES YOU OBVIOUSLY HAS THIS

2:03:26BACKLOG.

2:03:26WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE RIGHT

2:03:28NOW IN TERMS OF GETTING

2:03:29ADDITIONAL THE NECESSARY

2:03:30FUNDING FROM THE LEGISLATURE TO

2:03:33FURTHER FUND AND SUPPORT AND

2:03:35MAKE UM.

2:03:38YEAH.

2:03:38BECAUSE IT'S IT'S WHEN THE

2:03:39BACKLOG IS TOO MUCH.

2:03:41SO WHAT ARE THE CONCERNS?

2:03:41ARE THERE CONVERSATIONS

2:03:42HAPPENING NOW TO HELP MITIGATE

2:03:43SOME OF THAT BACKLOG?

2:03:44YEAH I MEAN OBVIOUSLY IDEAL

2:03:48IDEALLY WE WOULD LOVE TO PASS

2:03:50THE BILL ITSELF RIGHT SO FOLKS

2:03:52NEED TO UNDERSTAND MAY SEE IS

2:03:54AN INITIATIVE THAT CAME OUT

2:03:55OF THE IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE

2:03:57ACT THAT MIRA IS PUSHING.

2:04:00UM AND SO WHILE THE LEGISLATURE

2:04:04HAS BEEN SLOW AND HESITANT TO

2:04:06PASSING THE BILL, THEY HAVE

2:04:08COMMITTED TO CONTINUE TO FUND

2:04:09THE PROGRAM.

2:04:10UH, THERE'S ACTUALLY A BUDGET

2:04:12UM, LINE ITEM WHICH IS WHICH IS

2:04:14WE FEEL GOOD ABOUT.

2:04:15UM, AND SO OUR HOPE IS THAT AS

2:04:19WE START THE NEXT LEGISLATIVE

2:04:20SESSION WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER

2:04:22ASK FOR THE LEGISLATURE.

2:04:24SO RIGHT NOW HOW THE PROGRAM IS

2:04:26FUNDED UM, AT $7 MILLION AND SO

2:04:30THE HOPE THAT WE CAN COME TO

2:04:31BACK TO THE LEGISLATURE WHEN

2:04:33THIS SESSION STARTS AGAIN TO

2:04:34ASK FOR HOPEFULLY TO DOUBLE UM

2:04:36,THAT BUT I THINK ALSO EVEN

2:04:39THOUGH WE ADVOCATE AND HAVE THE

2:04:41FUNDING, I THINK WE ALSO NEED

2:04:43TO THINK ABOUT YOU KNOW, HOW

2:04:44CAN WE UTILIZE THIS FUNDING TO

2:04:46ALSO BRING IN MORE FOLKS IN THE

2:04:47FIELD BECAUSE EVEN WITH THE

2:04:49FUNDING THERE'S HUGE SHORTAGE

2:04:51OF LAWYERS.

2:04:52THANK YOU.

2:04:53THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS GOING

2:04:54TO QUICKLY MENTION.

2:04:55FOR EXAMPLE, UH, THIS WEEK WE

2:04:57HAD UH A COUPLE OF CLIENTS THE

2:05:01WENT UH TO THE PORTAL AND

2:05:04APPLIED BECAUSE THEY HAD ENOUGH

2:05:05FOR THE MERCY BECAUSE THERE IS

2:05:07FOR THE WAY YOU CAN GO AND SEE

2:05:09THAT YOU NEED HELP.

2:05:10SO UH, THEY DID THAT FROM A

2:05:12MONTH AGO, RIGHT?

2:05:13AND THEN THEIR APPOINTMENT WAS

2:05:15UH WHEN ONE OF THEM WAS ON

2:05:16MONDAY, THE OTHER ONE WAS ON

2:05:17TUESDAY.

2:05:18AND SO WE HAVE WE DO HAVE A

2:05:20MISSY, YOU KNOW, ATTORNEY AT

2:05:22OUR OFFICE, YOU KNOW, TO HELP

2:05:24FACILITATE THIS THING.

2:05:24SO I EMAILED UM, MY LAWYER AND

2:05:28I SAID WE'LL BE ABLE TO HELP

2:05:29THOSE TWO BECAUSE AGAIN IT'S

2:05:30BEEN A MONTH.

2:05:31AND SHE SAID UNFORTUNATELY NO.

2:05:33AND WE SAID WE NEED TO CALL

2:05:35THESE PEOPLE AND FIND OUT WHAT

2:05:36WAS GOING ON.

2:05:36THEY WENT ON THEIR OWN TO THOSE

2:05:38APPOINTMENTS AND WE KNOW WHAT

2:05:42IT MEANS WHEN YOU GO WITHOUT A

2:05:43LAWYER.

2:05:44SO EVEN WHEN MISSY AND THAT'S

2:05:46USING I'M REALLY PUSHING FOR

2:05:48THE FOR THIS IDEA OF THINKING

2:05:50OUTSIDE OF THE BOX BECAUSE EVEN

2:05:52IF MISSY HAD $100 MILLION WE'RE

2:05:55TALKING ABOUT NOW PEOPLE NEED

2:05:57HELP NOW IT'S NOT IN TWO

2:05:58MONTHS.

2:05:59IT'S THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE

2:06:01RECEIVING LETTERS FOR THEM TO

2:06:03GO TO COURT TO GO AND MEET.

2:06:05SO THOSE PEOPLE RIGHT NOW IT'S

2:06:06ALMOST LIKE THEIR LIFE IS IN

2:06:08DANGER BECAUSE THEY CANNOT FIND

2:06:10WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH LAWYERS TO

2:06:12GO WITH THEM.

2:06:12SO WE NEED TO BE CREATIVE ABOUT

2:06:15HOW DO WE.

2:06:17WIN OTHER RESOURCES ALONG WITH

2:06:19MISSY TO SUPPORT DISABILITY

2:06:20BECAUSE WE TALK ABOUT NEXT

2:06:22MONTH.

2:06:22WE TALKED ABOUT YESTERDAY THAT

2:06:23THOSE PEOPLE NEEDED YOU KNOW,

2:06:25LEGAL SUPPORT.

2:06:26SO IT'S NOT YOU KNOW, JUST

2:06:27ABOUT FUNDING.

2:06:28IT'S ABOUT HOW DO WE EVEN UH WE

2:06:31CREATE YOU KNOW, THE SYSTEM TO

2:06:32REALLY HAVE OTHERS TO COME AND

2:06:33JOIN IN SUPPORT WITH FAMILIES.

2:06:35YEAH.

2:06:36>> I MEAN IT'S A LOT

2:06:37OF HAND-HOLDING, RIGHT?

2:06:38LIKE WE CAN'T LET ANYONE FALL

2:06:39THROUGH THE CRACKS.

2:06:39YEAH.

2:06:40WE GOTTA BY HOOK OR BY CROOK

2:06:41FIND PEOPLE THAT DO THIS IN

2:06:43THESE SITUATIONS.

2:06:44I'M WONDERING, UM, A DOJ

2:06:46ACCREDITATION IS ALSO SOMETHING

2:06:48THAT WE'VE BEEN LOOKING INTO.

2:06:49I THINK YOU TOUCHED ON IT TOO,

2:06:50MORONI.

2:06:52YEAH.

2:06:53>> OR DOJ ACCREDITATION SO THAT

2:06:55THERE'S NOT JUST BEYOND IT

2:06:56COULD JUST BE BEYOND LAWYERS

2:06:57RIGHT BECAUSE THERE'S.

2:06:58SO YEAH YEAH YEAH EXACTLY.

2:06:59SO I MEAN YEAH DOJ ACQUISITION

2:07:02IS IS ONE OF THE UM UH MORE

2:07:06EFFICIENT WAY FOR US TO SUPPORT

2:07:07FAMILIES ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY

2:07:09CAN BE SUPERVISED BY AN

2:07:11ATTORNEY.

2:07:11SO YOU COULD HAVE SIX, SEVEN,

2:07:13TEN, YOU KNOW, UH, DOG EQUITY

2:07:15PEOPLE WITH ONE SUPERVISOR AS

2:07:18LONG AS THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT TO

2:07:19DO, THEY CAN HELP A LOT

2:07:21OF FAMILIES.

2:07:21SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE

2:07:22HAVE TO REALLY BE THINKING

2:07:24ABOUT OUTSIDE OF THE BOX TO

2:07:25BRING MORE RESOURCES TO A

2:07:27COMMUNITY THAT IS REALLY IN

2:07:28DIRE NEED.

2:07:29YEAH.

2:07:29>> AND I'M GOING TO PIGGYBACK

2:07:30OFF OF SOMETHING THAT YOU SAID

2:07:31THAT YOU SAID THERE WERE LIKE

2:07:33YOU SAID THERE ARE NO RULES

2:07:35THERE THERE AREN'T ENOUGH

2:07:36RESOURCES OR YOU SAID THERE YOU

2:07:38SAID IT IN A WAY IS LIKE WE

2:07:39DON'T NEED THE MONEY BUT LIKE

2:07:41WE DO ACTUALLY.

2:07:42NEED THE RESOURCES.

2:07:43THERE'S NEVER GOING TO BE

2:07:44ENOUGH TO LIKE OH YEAH FULL

2:07:46EXTENT OF YES.

2:07:46OH YEAH.

2:07:47>> UM AND SO YOU TALKED ABOUT

2:07:49THE HUMAN ELEMENT BUT I DO

2:07:51THINK I DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW IF

2:07:52PEOPLE REALLY UNDERSTAND LIKE I

2:07:54DON'T THINK THAT UNLESS YOU ARE

2:07:57IN THE THICK OF IT THAT YOU

2:07:59UNDERSTAND.

2:07:59MHM.

2:08:00LIKE WE ARE REALLY LITERALLY

2:08:02TALKING ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH ON

2:08:03ONE OF THE 4 P.M. CALLS.

2:08:05I COULDN'T BE ON THE CALL

2:08:06BECAUSE WE WERE HAVING A

2:08:07COUNCIL MEETING.

2:08:08UM YOU KNOW MY CHIEF OF STAFF

2:08:11TEXTED ME WHO WAS ON THE CALL

2:08:12AND SAID OH MY GOSH A WOMAN IN

2:08:15ANOTHER STATE JUST DRINK A

2:08:17PREGNANT WOMAN JUST DRINK A

2:08:19BOTTLE OF BLEACH.

2:08:20OH YEAH BECAUSE SHE LOST HER

2:08:21STATS WE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SO

2:08:23I MEAN AND I ALSO WANT TO SAY

2:08:26BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF FEAR

2:08:27MONGERING THAT GOES AROUND WITH

2:08:28THIS ALL THE TIME THAT WE ARE

2:08:29TALKING ABOUT BOSTON RESIDENTS.

2:08:30YEAH WE WERE TALKING ABOUT

2:08:31PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN HERE FOR

2:08:34YEARS WHO DRIVE OUR BUSSES, WHO

2:08:36WORK IN VARIOUS JOBS, HEALTH

2:08:38CARE, TRANSPORTATION

2:08:40ENTREPRENEURS.

2:08:41SO WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE WHEN

2:08:43FOLKS COME TO YOU WITH THOSE

2:08:44VERY HUMAN VERY REAL NEEDS?

2:08:46YEAH.

2:08:46I MEAN I ALWAYS SAY TO PEOPLE

2:08:48THAT WE CAN ONLY DO THIS JOB BY

2:08:52GRACE BECAUSE UH, OUR TEAM OUR

2:08:54STAFF BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE DAY

2:08:57THAT'S WHAT WE DO.

2:08:58WE MEET DIRECTLY WITH PEOPLE IN

2:08:59PERSON OR ON THE PHONE.

2:09:01WE WE HAVE YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE.

2:09:03NOWHERE ELSE TO TURN.

2:09:04YEAH YEAH EXACTLY.

2:09:05>> THEY HAVE NO AND THEY ARE

2:09:07COUNTING ON US TO GIVE THEM YOU

2:09:09KNOW, JUST KIND OF A WORD.

2:09:11>> OF HOPE.

2:09:11AND SO OFTEN WHEN YOU CANNOT

2:09:14EVEN.

2:09:14FIND HOW.

2:09:15TO EVEN SAY SOMETHING IT IS

2:09:17VERY PAINFUL.

2:09:18IN FACT WE WERE GOING TO

2:09:19ORGANIZE A MENTAL HEALTH

2:09:21RETREAT NOT ONLY FOR OUR STAFF

2:09:22WITH SOME OF THE COMMITTEE

2:09:23LEADERS AS A WAY FOR THEM TO

2:09:25UNDERSTAND HOW TO.

2:09:26>> TAKE.

2:09:26CARE OF THEMSELVES FIRST SO

2:09:28THEY CAN TAKE CARE OF OTHERS.

2:09:29SO THIS IS NOT, YOU KNOW, A JOB

2:09:31FOR THE FAINT HEARTED BECAUSE

2:09:32AGAIN, IT TAKES A LOT OF YOU TO

2:09:35DO THIS WORK MEETING FAMILIES.

2:09:36YOU KNOW A YOUNG MAN HE'S ABOUT

2:09:39TO TURN 21 AND MOM WAS WAITING

2:09:41FOR THAT YOUNG MAN TO TURN 21

2:09:43BECAUSE SO THAT THEY CAN APPLY

2:09:45UH, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE AGAIN HE

2:09:46WAS BORN HERE AND THEN AS YOU

2:09:48KNOW, THE BIRTHDAY WAS COMING

2:09:49AND THEN THE IDEA OF HOPE WAS

2:09:52COMING FOR THE FAMILY AND DO

2:09:53YOUNG MEAN I DON'T EVEN KNOW

2:09:54THAT I WANT TO DO THAT.

2:09:56IT IS SO PAINFUL TO LIVE HERE.

2:09:58IT'S IT'S SO PAINFUL TO BE IT'S

2:10:00ALMOST LIKE THE YOUNG MAN

2:10:02ALTHOUGH WAS BORN HERE WAS

2:10:04GOING TO TURN 21.

2:10:05TO HELP THE MOM AT.

2:10:07THE POINT OF YOU KNOW, HOPE HE

2:10:10FELT SO DISCOURAGED BUT BY WHAT

2:10:12HE'S SEEING OUT THERE.

2:10:13SO IT'S EVERY DAY THAT OUR.

2:10:16UH, MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDER IS

2:10:17THEY HAVE TO SIT DOWN WITH

2:10:19FAMILIES IN TEARS.

2:10:21SHARING THE PAIN TO BURDEN THE

2:10:24SHAME THAT THE KILLING

2:10:25ESPECIALLY YOU REMEMBER WHEN WE

2:10:26TALK ABOUT IMMIGRANT FAMILIES

2:10:27THERE IS THIS PRIDE WHEN YOU

2:10:29FINALLY CAN GET A KEY TO YOUR

2:10:31OWN APARTMENT.

2:10:32AND ALL OF A SUDDEN FOR YOU TO

2:10:34FIND YOURSELF DELINDA CALLING

2:10:36YOU YOU KNOW WHAT?

2:10:36YOU WOULD BE OUT.

2:10:37YOU'D BE OUT WITH NO OTHER

2:10:39PLACE TO GO FOR YOU TO THINK

2:10:41THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE ON THE

2:10:42STREET.

2:10:42THINK ABOUT THE PRIDE OF A

2:10:44FAMILY YOU KNOW, WITH CHILDREN

2:10:46GIVING THEM HOPE THAT MONEY IS

2:10:47GOING TO DO THE BEST THAT IS

2:10:48GOING TO BE.

2:10:49BUT NOW WE'RE THINKING ABOUT

2:10:50GOING BACK TO THE SWEET.

2:10:51THAT'S THE REASON WHY.

2:10:52YOU KNOW IF WE DON'T ACT.

2:10:54FAST PEOPLE ARE GOING.

2:10:56>> TO FALL INTO DESPAIR.

2:10:57AND THE CONSEQUENCES ARE

2:10:58SOMETHING THAT WE WILL BE

2:11:00FEELING FOR YEARS TO COME.

2:11:02SO THAT'S DO SOMETHING IN

2:11:03MENTAL.

2:11:03HEALTH QUITE NOT IS A BIG THING

2:11:05THAT WE NEED TO PAY ATTENTION.

2:11:06>> NO YOU ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.

2:11:08>> IT IS IT IS IT IS A LOT IT

2:11:10IS A LOT TO.

2:11:11ONE MORE QUESTION THEN WE'LL

2:11:12MOVE TO THAT'S A WEAPON THAT

2:11:16COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FINISH AND

2:11:16THEN WE'LL COME TO YOU.

2:11:18THANK YOU BRIAN I'M WONDERING

2:11:20IF YOU COULD TALK A LITTLE BIT

2:11:21MORE THE LONG TERM STRATEGY

2:11:24AROUND THIS TPL THIS EFFORT I

2:11:27KNOW WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

2:11:29UM, HOW ARE WE USING THIS, YOU

2:11:31KNOW, UPLIFTING YOU KNOW THE

2:11:33RECENT MEETING BETWEEN

2:11:35PRESIDENT TRUMP AND MAYOR

2:11:36MAMDANI LIKE HOW IS THIS ALL

2:11:38GOING TO WORK TOGETHER?

2:11:39YOU KNOW AND I KNOW THERE ARE

2:11:41EFFORTS IN THE FALL ABOUT WHO

2:11:42GOING TO BE LEADING THE HOUSE

2:11:43THEREAFTER.

2:11:44IF YOU COULD TALK A LITTLE

2:11:45ABOUT YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I GET

2:11:47THESE CALLS FROM PEOPLE ABOUT

2:11:48LIKE WHY IS THIS YOUR FOCUS?

2:11:51BECAUSE PRESIDENT TRUMP

2:11:53ULTIMATELY HAS VETO POWER.

2:11:55IT'S GOING TO BE HARD TO GET 13

2:11:57REPUBLICANS TO SIGN ON.

2:11:58I THINK YOU DID INCREDIBLE

2:11:59FRAMING.

2:11:59NO ONE THOUGHT THE DISCHARGE

2:12:01PETITION WAS GOING TO GO

2:12:02THROUGH.

2:12:03I REMEMBER BEING ON THE PHONE

2:12:04WITH CONGRESSWOMAN PRESSLEY AT

2:12:06MIDNIGHT THE NIGHT THAT THAT

2:12:07BILL IT WAS JUST CRYING.

2:12:10UM, NO ONE BELIEVED THAT IT WAS

2:12:13GOING TO HAPPEN AND THERE WERE

2:12:14PEOPLE WHO WERE PART OF THE

2:12:15COALITION.

2:12:16IF YOU ARE A MEMBER.

2:12:17OH OH YOU DIDN'T.

2:12:18BELIEVE WITH LAST MINUTE WAS

2:12:20SAYING LIKE WE DON'T KNOW.

2:12:21>> IF THIS IS THE MOMENT.

2:12:23SO I'M WONDERING UM BRIAN

2:12:25DOCTOR GOBBO, IF YOU COULD TALK

2:12:27ABOUT SORT OF THE THE STRATEGY

2:12:29AND WHY PEOPLE SHOULD BELIEVE

2:12:30IN IT.

2:12:31AND SO SO I WAS ONE OF THE

2:12:33PEOPLE CONFESSION.

2:12:34OH I REMEMBER TALKING TO Y'ALL

2:12:36AND HAVING TO TALK TO OUR

2:12:38CONGRESSWOMAN AND THIS IS WHAT

2:12:39THE COALITION IS SAYING AND

2:12:40CONGRESSMAN LIKE BELIEVE WE GOT

2:12:42THIS AND SHE HAD US SO.

2:12:44BECAUSE THERE WAS YOU KNOW SO

2:12:45MUCH AGAINST US AND THAT

2:12:47ORIGINALLY AND IT WAS PROBABLY

2:12:48LIKE NOVEMBER OF LAST YEAR WHEN

2:12:49ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES SAID LET'S

2:12:50DO THIS.

2:12:51I SAID I SAID WE CAN'T.

2:12:52PUT TOO.

2:12:53>> MANY RESOURCES.

2:12:53WE'RE STRETCHED SO THIN AND

2:12:55IT'S JUST NOT REALISTIC ENOUGH

2:12:56.

2:12:57UM, AND WHAT HAPPENED WAS WE

2:12:59STARTED WORKING TOGETHER AND

2:13:00KIND OF WE KNOW EACH OTHER AND

2:13:03THE EXCITEMENT OF COLLABORATING

2:13:05KIND OF GOT PEOPLE TOGETHER AND

2:13:07THEN OBVIOUSLY THE VISIONARY

2:13:08LEADERSHIP OF REPRESENTATIVE

2:13:10PRESSLEY.

2:13:10BUT ANOTHER KEY COMPONENT.

2:13:12WAS THAT THE POLITICAL.

2:13:13WINDS SHIFTED.

2:13:15PRECIPITOUSLY AND SO AMERICANS

2:13:18WERE OKAY WITH DEPORTING

2:13:20HAITIANS WHEN WHEN THEY THOUGHT

2:13:22OF HAITIANS AS AS ABSTRACT AND

2:13:26AS CRIMINALS.

2:13:27YET THE ADMINISTRATION WAS

2:13:30DEFINING WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN

2:13:32NOVEMBER OF LAST YEAR AND

2:13:33PROBABLY APRIL AND MARCH AND

2:13:36APRIL.

2:13:38OF THIS YEAR WAS THAT PEOPLE

2:13:40REALIZED THAT THEY WEREN'T

2:13:41THESE KIND OF ABSTRACT

2:13:43CRIMINALS.

2:13:43THEY WERE THE PEOPLE TAKING

2:13:44CARE OF THEIR MOTHER.

2:13:45THEY WERE THE PEOPLE WHO WERE

2:13:47DRIVING THEIR BUS OR SERVING

2:13:48THEM FOOD.

2:13:48>> OR DOING.

2:13:49YOU KNOW, ANY OF.

2:13:50>> THE.

2:13:51MILLIONS OF THINGS THAT THAT

2:13:52THAT ASIAN TPS HOLDERS WERE

2:13:54DOING AND THAT COMPLETELY

2:13:56SHIFTED THE POLITICAL WINDS AND

2:13:57NOW THERE'S CLEAR MAJORITIES,

2:13:59EVEN STRONG SUPPORT AMONG

2:14:01REPUBLICANS FOR NOT DEPORTING

2:14:02NOT DEPORTING HAITIANS.

2:14:04AND THEN THE POLLS ALWAYS SAY

2:14:05THE SAME THING AND EVEN

2:14:07INDIVIDUALS WHO SAY OH YEAH, WE

2:14:08WANT TO GET RID OF THE

2:14:09CRIMINALS.

2:14:10WE DON'T WANT TO GET RID OF THE

2:14:11PEOPLE WHO DO.

2:14:11RIGHT.

2:14:12>> AND YOU KNOW, THE VAST, VAST

2:14:13MAJORITY OF ASIAN TPS HOLDERS

2:14:15ARE FIT IN THE CATEGORY

2:14:17OF DOING THINGS RIGHT.

2:14:17AND SO.

2:14:18>> THAT'S.

2:14:19A POLITICAL REALITY THAT THE

2:14:20REPUBLICAN PARTY IS FACED WITH

2:14:21AND WHAT DHS IS NOW DOING DHS

2:14:25IS.

2:14:26IS TRYING TO NAVIGATE BETWEEN

2:14:29PUBLIC OPINION AND THERE AND

2:14:31WANTING TO REPUBLICANS WANTING

2:14:33TO WIN ELECTIONS AND THE

2:14:34STEPHEN MILLER WAY WHICH IS YOU

2:14:36KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WHITE

2:14:37SUPREMACIST AND IS NEVER GOING

2:14:38TO CHANGE.

2:14:39SO THEY'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE

2:14:40FIGHTING YELLING THAT WE NEED

2:14:41TO DEPORT MORE HAITIANS.

2:14:43BUT BUT THERE ALSO IS.

2:14:44PUBLIC OPINION THAT IS STRONG

2:14:46AND GROWING STRONGER AGAINST

2:14:47THESE AND WE CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE

2:14:49OF THAT AND THE.

2:14:51THE THE.

2:14:52DISCHARGE PETITION DID THE

2:14:53CURRENT UM CURRENT SENATE BILL

2:14:56DOES AND YES, IT'S POSSIBLE.

2:14:59THAT THE THAT.

2:14:59THE ADMINISTRATION THAT THE

2:15:00PRESIDENT CAN UH CAN VETO IT

2:15:02THAT'S GOING TO BE A HARD

2:15:04CHOICE FOR HIM TO MAKE BECAUSE

2:15:04THAT'S GOING TO HURT HIS HIS

2:15:06HIS APPROVAL RATINGS EVEN MORE.

2:15:08AND THERE'S.

2:15:09ALSO THIS IS A THIS COULD.

2:15:10LITERALLY MAKE THE DIFFERENCE

2:15:11BETWEEN CONTROL OF THE SENATE

2:15:13I.

2:15:13MEAN SUSAN COLLINS DISTRICT

2:15:15ALONE.

2:15:15OR JOHN.

2:15:16HUSTON'S DISTRICT ALONE.

2:15:17COULD BE THE DIFFERENCE

2:15:18BETWEEN, YOU KNOW, 51 DEMOCRATS

2:15:21IN THE SENATE OR 50 WHICH IS

2:15:23MAKES ALL.

2:15:23>> THE.

2:15:24DIFFERENCE TO THE PRESIDENT.

2:15:25AND SO WE CAN LEVERAGE THIS

2:15:26REALLY IMPORTANT WAYS AND THEN

2:15:28WE KEEP FIGHTING.

2:15:29IF WE DON'T WIN THEN WE KEEP

2:15:30FIGHTING IN THE NEW CONGRESS

2:15:31WHICH MAY HAVE.

2:15:33UH REPUBLICAN OR.

2:15:33DEMOCRAT MAJORITY ONE OR BOTH

2:15:35HOUSES.

2:15:35DOCTOR GABEL YEAH.

2:15:37>> AND I WAS GOING TO SAY ALSO

2:15:38THIS IS WHAT WE CALL THE POWER

2:15:39OF YOU KNOW.

2:15:42UH.

2:15:42>> WORKING TOGETHER AND THIS IS

2:15:43ALSO THE POWER OF THIEF.

2:15:44UH, DO YOU THINK I'M SEEING THE

2:15:46POWER OF I REMEMBER WHEN WE IN

2:15:48SO MANY QUARTERS IN THEM UH, A

2:15:50COUPLE OF PEOPLE SAID OH NO,

2:15:52THIS IS NOT GOING TO PASS.

2:15:53AND I'M.

2:15:53LIKE WHY NOT?

2:15:54BECAUSE IF WE ARE DOING IT,

2:15:56WE'RE DOING IT BECAUSE WE KNOW

2:15:57WE BELIEVE.

2:15:58THAT IT COULD HAPPEN.

2:15:59SO WHEN WE PUT OUR HEARTS.

2:16:01TOGETHER ESPECIALLY.

2:16:02FIGHTING EVIL.

2:16:03AND WE PUT OUR MIND OUR HEARTS

2:16:06TOGETHER TO GET TO A MIRACLE

2:16:08HAPPEN.

2:16:08SO THAT'S THE REASON WHAT I

2:16:09SAID I WILL NEVER DURING A

2:16:10FIGHT IF I'M NOT.

2:16:12SURE THAT WE CAN WIN.

2:16:14SO IN THE SAME WAY THAT WE

2:16:15FOUGHT FOR THE DISCHARGE

2:16:15PETITION, THAT'S THE SAME

2:16:17FERVOR THAT WE WANT TO SEE ALL

2:16:18CAUSE THAT.

2:16:19PEOPLE FIGHT WITH.

2:16:21THIS IDEA THAT YES WE CAN WIN

2:16:23AND AS YOU ARE GOING TO YOU

2:16:25YOU'RE SEEING UH,

2:16:26COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU KNOW.

2:16:27WHEN WE ARE FOCUSING ON.

2:16:29SOMETHING BEFORE WE.

2:16:30KNOW WITH SO MANY.

2:16:31OTHER OPPORTUNITIES COME OUR

2:16:33WAY LIKE.

2:16:33THINKING ABOUT MY FRIENDS.

2:16:35IN OHIO WHEN I WENT.

2:16:37TO COLLEGE WITH WHO I WAS

2:16:39PLAYING GOLF WITH INSULIN.

2:16:41BEFORE YOU KNOW, WITH THOSE

2:16:42PEOPLE ARE COMING INTO MINE AND

2:16:44THEN WE REACH.

2:16:45OUT TO.

2:16:45>> THEM AND THEY CAN SUPPORT.

2:16:47SO THAT'S THE REASON WHY.

2:16:48WHEN WE PUT OUR.

2:16:49STRIP TOGETHER, YOU KNOW.

2:16:51OH MINE ARE HOT TOGETHER FOR

2:16:53SOMETHING THAT IS SO POSITIVE.

2:16:55BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT

2:16:55PEOPLE.

2:16:56WITH LIVES.

2:16:57YOU KNOW, AGAINST EVIL GUESS

2:16:58WHAT?

2:16:59WE ALWAYS.

2:17:00WIN AND.

2:17:00>> THAT'S THE REASON WHY I

2:17:01WANT.

2:17:01EVERYONE TO GO TO THIS FIGHT.

2:17:03WITH THIS IDEA THAT YES WE WILL

2:17:06WIN BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE

2:17:07DAY IT'S ABOUT PROTECTING

2:17:08PEOPLE, PROTECTING LIVES,

2:17:10PROTECTING CHILDREN SO WE

2:17:12NEVER.

2:17:12WAIT FOR EVIL.

2:17:13BUT THE LORD MEANT IT FOR GOOD.

2:17:15EXACTLY.

2:17:15>> SO WHENEVER WE'VE GOT UH I

2:17:17THINK WE HAVE TWO MORE FOLKS

2:17:19THAT WANT TO TALK.

2:17:20IS ANYONE ON ZOOM WHO'S READY

2:17:26TO TESTIFY NOW?

2:17:36I T UH EDA.

2:17:40WILSON LOUISE.

2:17:42WELL THIS IS.

2:17:43HELLO, FELLAS.

2:17:44I'M IN MY CAR SO I AND AT FIVE

2:17:47MINUTES.

2:17:48>> WILSON.

2:17:49OKAY.

2:17:49>> AND THANK YOU FOR GIVING

2:17:50ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO, UH,

2:17:51TESTIFY, UH, SHARE A COPY AND

2:17:54I'M VERY GRATEFUL TO BE HERE.

2:17:55I'M WE JUST WANT TO TELL HIM

2:17:56WHAT WEEK I'M A MEMBER OF THE

2:17:58TASK FORCE POLITICAL, UH,

2:17:59OF THE UH, BMT WHICH IS, UH,

2:18:01THE TASK FORCE, UH, THE BLACK

2:18:03MEN POLITICAL TASK FORCE AND

2:18:04I'M ALSO THE UH, CEO OF 82 MY

2:18:06ORGANIZATION NAME IT HAITI.

2:18:10SO I WAS AT YOUR LAST HEARING

2:18:12ABOUT THE TPS, UH, HAITIAN TPO

2:18:14SERVICE FOR PEOPLE BACK IN

2:18:17APRIL.

2:18:17BUT TODAY I WOULD LIKE TO READ

2:18:19TO ITS, UM, KEY POINT THAT I

2:18:21ALREADY DISCUSSED WITH YOU GUYS

2:18:23AND I THINK THE US IS NOW BEING

2:18:25SEEN AS A COUNTRY THAT IS

2:18:27EXPOSE OR EXPOSE YOUNG LADIES,

2:18:30YOUNG PEOPLE LIKE US I OR

2:18:34FEMALE TO EXPLOITATION.

2:18:35SO I AM ASSUMING THAT YOU

2:18:37UNDERSTAND WHAT IT'S MEAN WHEN

2:18:40YOU HAVE YOUNG LADIES THESE

2:18:42DAYS.

2:18:43WHO DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO A JOB

2:18:45OR CANNOT EVEN GO TO SCHOOL.

2:18:47SO IN ORDER FOR THEM TO SURVIVE

2:18:49THEY HAVE TO SELL THEMSELF.

2:18:51SO I THINK THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT

2:18:52THE US IS TRADING NOW I DON'T

2:18:54KNOW IF IT'S A GOOD REPUTATION

2:18:55FOR US AS AMERICAN AS A GREAT

2:18:58COUNTRY IN THIS WORLD.

2:18:59SO THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I TBS

2:19:01HOLDERS LIKE WHO LOST THEIR JOB

2:19:04I EXPERIENCING RIGHT NOW AND

2:19:06ALSO SOME OF THEM ARE BEING

2:19:07EXPOSED TO TO UNDER THE TABLE

2:19:11JOBS AND WHICH HAVE THEM EVEN

2:19:13WORK FOR $4 AN HOUR BECAUSE

2:19:16THEY HAVE TO SURVIVE.

2:19:17THEY HAVE TO EVEN SEND SOME

2:19:18MONEY BACK HOME AND EVEN

2:19:21SUSTAIN THEMSELVES IN THE US.

2:19:23AND THE SECOND ASPECT I WOULD

2:19:24LIKE YOU TO HIGHLIGHT IN YOUR

2:19:26ADVOCACY APPROACH IS UH, IMPACT

2:19:29ON AMERICAN LIVES.

2:19:31I BELIEVE EVEN HER SPEAKING

2:19:32HERE SHE IS ALSO AFFECTED BY

2:19:35THESE US UH BY THE UH TPS

2:19:38HOLDER STATUS RIGHT NOW AS

2:19:40ME ALSO I AM AMONG THE UH

2:19:44FAMILIES OR WHAT PEOPLE IN THIS

2:19:46COUNTRY THROUGH THIS TPS

2:19:48PROGRAM WHICH I BELIEVE I PUT

2:19:50FIVE PEOPLE HERE FROM THIS

2:19:52PROGRAM.

2:19:53IT'S VERY STRESS ON ME BECAUSE

2:19:56THESE PEOPLE NOW THEY LOST

2:19:58THEIR JOB AND THEY HAVE TO

2:19:59LEAVE AND THEY DON'T WANT TO GO

2:20:01BACK HOME BECAUSE IT'S FARCICAL

2:20:02VIDEO AND MY GRANDMA SHE'S LIKE

2:20:0679 SHE DOESN'T WANT TO GO BACK

2:20:08TO HAITI BECAUSE SHE SAID OKAY,

2:20:09THERE IS NO FOOD OVER HERE AND

2:20:10WHEN I'M SICK I'M NOT BEING

2:20:11ABLE TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL.

2:20:13SO ALL.

2:20:13OF THESE ARE ON OUR SHOULDER.

2:20:16FAMILY STRESS NOW RELY ON US AS

2:20:19AMERICAN FAMILY EVEN YOU GUYS

2:20:21EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE NOT HERE YOU

2:20:22DON'T HAVE ANY ASIAN BY GOING

2:20:24YOU ALSO MAY NOT BE AFFECTED BY

2:20:26THIS TUMOR IN THIS COUNTRY.

2:20:28AND THE THIRD THING I WOULD

2:20:30LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT IS UH IF WE

2:20:33LOVE TO BACK PHILANTHROPIC

2:20:35APPROACH FROM YOU GUYS I

2:20:37UNDERSTAND YOU'VE BEEN SPENDING

2:20:39A LOT OF TIME BY PROVIDING

2:20:41THESE PEOPLE WITH UM, SHORT

2:20:43TERM THE LIKE FOOD UH, SHARE

2:20:46OUT HERE.

2:20:47SO I'M WONDERING ALSO IF THERE

2:20:49IS NO POSSIBILITY.

2:20:51TO HELP THESE PEOPLE GET INTO

2:20:54TRAINING WHILE YOU ARE WINNING

2:20:56FOR YOUR TRANSITION OR FOR THE

2:20:57WORK PERMIT, IS THERE ANY WAY

2:20:59THIS CITY CAN HELP THIS

2:21:01CATEGORY OF PEOPLE THESE YOUNG

2:21:03PEOPLE FAMILY TO.

2:21:06>> AT.

2:21:06LEAST SPEND SOME TIMES INTO

2:21:08TRAINING SO THEY CAN STUDY

2:21:11SOMETHING TRADE PROGRAM AND

2:21:12WHEN THEY GET THE WORK PERMIT

2:21:13SO THEY CAN UH WE START ON THE

2:21:15WORK PLACE AND ALSO I WOULD

2:21:18LIKE TO ADDRESS THE ARTICLE

2:21:20FIRST OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE

2:21:22THAT I THINK THE US ALSO

2:21:24ACKNOWLEDGE BACK IN DECEMBER UH

2:21:271948 WHICH SAYS THAT EVERY

2:21:29HUMAN IS EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW.

2:21:32SO AS A HUMAN I THINK WE EACH

2:21:35OTHER SHOULD UM, PARTICIPATE IN

2:21:39MAKING OR.

2:21:40EAT UM EAT INSIDE EACH OTHER'S

2:21:43LIFE BETTER INSTEAD OF TRYING

2:21:46TO ENSLAVE SOME PEOPLE.

2:21:48YOU SHOULD REMEMBER THAT FOLKS

2:21:50HAITI IS THE FIRST BLACK

2:21:52INDEPENDENT COUNTRY IN THIS

2:21:53WORLD AND I'M THINKING THAT

2:21:55HAITI IS BECOMING NOW.

2:21:57THE NEWEST.

2:21:59NATION SLAVE.

2:22:01SLAVE NATION.

2:22:02I THINK THE US IS TRYING TO PUT

2:22:04HAITI AGAIN IN SLAVE WE YOU

2:22:06THINK THAT'S A GOOD INVITATION

2:22:07FOR YOU FOR YOU GUYS TO WIN ON

2:22:10YOU TO LIKE TO CELEBRATE

2:22:11HISTORY.

2:22:12THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON

2:22:13RIGHT NOW IF YOU ARE LIKE

2:22:15FOLLOWING THE NEWS LIKE HOW A

2:22:18HAITIAN PRESIDENT WAS KILLED

2:22:19AND THE U.S. HASN'T BEEN.

2:22:21INVOLVED FROM ALL DIGGING.

2:22:23INTO THE GUNS.

2:22:24>> THAT'S GOING.

2:22:25TO HAITI NOW THE MOST OF THEM

2:22:26HAVE COME FROM THE EU TODAY UH,

2:22:28THE US WHEN THEY KILL THE

2:22:29PRESIDENT IT'S MADE IN THE U.S

2:22:31WE DON'T MAKE GUNS IN HAITI

2:22:33PEOPLE IT'S LIKE YOU ARE LIVING

2:22:35IN A.

2:22:35FAMILY WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE A.

2:22:36MOM.

2:22:37>> YOU DON'T HAVE A DAD.

2:22:38>> WHAT SHOULD YOU DO IN HAITI

2:22:39WE DON'T HAVE A CITY COUNCIL.

2:22:41WE DON'T HAVE ANY CITY

2:22:42COUNCIL LIVE EVEN THE LOWEST

2:22:43PART OF THE UH PUBLIC

2:22:45ADMINISTRATION WE DON'T HAVE

2:22:46THAT IN HAITI RIGHT NOW.

2:22:47WE DON'T HAVE MAYORS.

2:22:48WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY.

2:22:49WE DON'T.

2:22:50>> HAVE SENATOR.

2:22:50WE DON'T HAVE THE PRESIDENT.

2:22:51SO HOW COME WE DON'T HAVE A

2:22:53FAMILY THEN YOU GO TO YOUR

2:22:55NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE AND NOW

2:22:56THEY'RE KICKING YOU OUT AND

2:22:58EVEN THEY WON'T GIVE YOU ON IN

2:23:00BLOCKING YOUR HOUSE JUST LIKE.

2:23:02>> MY.

2:23:03MY MY MY FELLOW COLLEAGUE WAS

2:23:04SAYING IN HER TESTIMONY.

2:23:06MY WHAT HAPPENED?

2:23:07>> SHE WAS ME.

2:23:09UM.

2:23:09MISTER LOUIS, PLEASE WRAP UP.

2:23:12OKAY.

2:23:14ARE FREE.

2:23:15LEGAL LAWYERS GUYS, YOU ARE PUT

2:23:18IN YOUR, UH, SPEECHES I THINK I

2:23:21AM ALSO AS I TOLD YOU IT

2:23:23PARENTS WHO WELCOME TPS UH,

2:23:25FAMILY HERE UM, I I'M ASSUMING

2:23:28I'M NOT ASSUMING I EXPERIENCE

2:23:29IT.

2:23:30WE SHOULD PROBABLY.

2:23:31HAVE MORE RESOURCES BECAUSE I

2:23:33LOOK FOR RESOURCES FOR THESE

2:23:34PEOPLE.

2:23:35THEY COULD FIND RESOURCE THEY.

2:23:36DON'T KNOW.

2:23:37WE CAN'T USE LAWYERS.

2:23:38THEY LIKE TO TURN AROUND UNTIL

2:23:40THEY NEVER HELP YOU.

2:23:41AND ALSO.

2:23:44UM, I THINK THIS WOULD BE MY

2:23:46LAST APPROACH.

2:23:47UM.

2:23:50I DON'T KNOW I KNOW YOU YOU CAN

2:23:51DO.

2:23:52THAT AS A CITY.

2:23:54TO SEE HOW YOU CAN.

2:23:55IMPLEMENT SOME PROGRAM TO

2:24:00ENCOURAGE, UM.

2:24:02INCLUSION IN THIS CITY.

2:24:04IN THIS CITY OR IN THIS STATE.

2:24:06BECAUSE UM AS NEW IMMIGRANT

2:24:08WHEN YOU COME.

2:24:09>> TO IT WHEN WE COME TO THE

2:24:10COUNTRY WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO

2:24:11NAVIGATE.

2:24:12>> THE COUNTRY.

2:24:12SO I KNOW THERE'S THERE ARE A.

2:24:13LOT OF PROGRAMS THAT CAN WILL

2:24:15COME US BUT.

2:24:16WE DON'T WANT TO.

2:24:18GO TO THIS PROGRAM.

2:24:20IS THERE A WAY.

2:24:21>> YOU CAN HAVE SOME OUTREACH

2:24:22OUTREACH?

2:24:23UH, PEOPLE.

2:24:24THAT COULD GO TO THESE PEOPLE

2:24:25TO GET THEM.

2:24:26INTO SOME UH, PROGRAM TO

2:24:29ENCOURAGE INCLUSION AND SOCIAL

2:24:31COHESION.

2:24:32BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT COME.

2:24:33TO THIS.

2:24:33>> PROGRAM EVEN THOUGH THEY

2:24:34MADE FOR THEM.

2:24:35PLEASE SEE IF YOU.

2:24:36CAN GET SOME RESOURCE THAT.

2:24:38CAN GO AND HELP THEM REACH THEM

2:24:40.

2:24:40AND BRING.

2:24:41>> THEM TO THE PROGRAM.

2:24:41THAT ARE DESIGNED TO THEM.

2:24:44AND THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.

2:24:45I HAVE.

2:24:46>> A.

2:24:46LOT TO SAY BUT AND I WOULD LIKE

2:24:48TO TAKE ESPECIALLY UH

2:24:49UNSHACKLED PEOPLE TO FOR GIVING

2:24:51ME THIS INVITATION AND COME TO

2:24:53YOU GUYS AND CONGRATULATION FOR

2:24:54THE HARD WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING

2:24:56AND I KNOW IT'S GOING SOMEWHERE

2:24:58AND I'M GLAD THAT BE PART

2:24:59OF IT.

2:25:00THANK YOU MR LEWIS.

2:25:01THANK YOU GUYS.

2:25:03ARE THERE ANY OTHER FOLKS ON

2:25:05ZOOM WHO CAME PREPARED TO

2:25:12TESTIFY?

2:25:12YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.

2:25:22WHY DON'T WE GO TO

2:25:23COUNCILOR WEBER?

2:25:24YOU HAD AND I KNOW YOU HAVE

2:25:26OTHER PRESSING MATTERS.

2:25:28UH, COUNCILOR WEBER, UM, GIVE

2:25:31YOU THREE MINUTES.

2:25:32YEP.

2:25:33>> IN ADDITION, I I.

2:25:34COULD TELL YOU PERIPHERAL.

2:25:36VISION AS.

2:25:37>> COUNCILOR FLYNN HAS JOINED

2:25:38US.

2:25:39UH, COUNCILOR WEBER RIGHT AFTER

2:25:41YOU MOVE RIGHT TO

2:25:42COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:25:43THEN WE'LL GO BACK TO THE, UH,

2:25:46FOLKS ON ZOOM AND THEY WILL

2:25:48HAVE FINAL AND CLOSING

2:25:51STATEMENTS.

2:25:51I'LL GIVE EACH OF YOU TWO

2:25:54MINUTES.

2:25:55COUNCIL WEBER.

2:25:56OKAY.

2:25:56>> YEAH.

2:25:56THANKS.

2:25:57UH, JUST SO.

2:25:59IT SEEMS LIKE.

2:26:01UH.

2:26:02>> YOU.

2:26:03>> KNOW, GETTING ENOUGH

2:26:04QUALIFIED ATTORNEYS IN PLACE

2:26:07IMMEDIATELY IS LIKE ONE.

2:26:08>> OF.

2:26:09THE SHORT TERM NEEDS HERE.

2:26:11SO I GUESS, YOU KNOW, WHAT CAN

2:26:13WE DO?

2:26:14I KNOW WE TALK ABOUT GETTING

2:26:15LAW FIRMS INVOLVED, BUT I MEAN

2:26:17CAN WE HELP WITH THAT?

2:26:19WHAT ARE YOUR LIKE, YOU KNOW,

2:26:22INSTRUCTIONS ON THAT LIKE

2:26:24WHAT'S BEING DONE AND WHAT CAN

2:26:26WE DO TO TO HELP WITH THAT.

2:26:28SORT OF.

2:26:29>> YOU KNOW EMERGENCY.

2:26:30YEAH SO.

2:26:32OKAY SO AGAIN.

2:26:33I THINK WE NEED TO.

2:26:35BRING MORE AWARENESS ABOUT

2:26:37WHAT'S GOING ON.

2:26:38BELIEVE IT OR NOT WE TALKING

2:26:40ABOUT THIS VERY CRUCIAL SUBJECT

2:26:41RIGHT HERE.

2:26:43SO MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST

2:26:44NEXT DOOR TO US DO NOT HAVE ANY

2:26:46CLUE ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON.

2:26:48I THINK BRINGING MORE AWARENESS

2:26:50TO EVERYONE SO THEY UNDERSTAND

2:26:52THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION IS

2:26:53STEP NUMBER ONE.

2:26:54STEP NUMBER TWO ANYONE.

2:26:56WHO REALLY HAS AN INFLUENCE

2:26:58WILL KILL.

2:26:58REACH OUT.

2:27:00TO OTHER MEDIA.

2:27:01LIKE I SAID MEDIA FIRMS UH

2:27:03COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

2:27:04SHOULD DO.

2:27:04SO EVEN IF WE WERE.

2:27:06TO PUT TOGETHER THE TRAINING

2:27:08BECAUSE AGAIN IF YOU ARE A

2:27:10LAWYER I MEAN YOU KNOW THAT

2:27:11THERE IS IMMIGRATION LAWYER

2:27:12THAT IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

2:27:13FROM DIFFERENT OTHER YOU KNOW,

2:27:17UH UH FROM THAT JOB UH, AGREE

2:27:19THAT YOU CAN WORK ON HOWEVER UH

2:27:22WE KNOW WE HAVE DONE IT IN THE

2:27:24PAST WHEN WE HAD SO MANY PEOPLE

2:27:25WE HAVE LAWYERS CALL.

2:27:27AND TRAIN OTHERS SO AT LEAST

2:27:29THEY CAN BE THERE EVEN IF TO

2:27:32HEAL TO LISTEN TO A

2:27:34CONVERSATION THEY CAN DO

2:27:35SOMETHING BECAUSE THERE IS

2:27:36ALWAYS SOMETHING THAT SOMEONE

2:27:37CAN DO ESPECIALLY WHEN FAMILIES

2:27:39ARE LEFT ON THEIR OWN TO GO TO

2:27:42THE COURT SYSTEM.

2:27:43SO AND I BELIEVE MIRA HAS

2:27:45ALWAYS THEY HAVE DONE A NUMBER

2:27:47OF TRAINING TO HELP OTHERS SO

2:27:48THEY UNDERSTAND.

2:27:49BUT I THINK RIGHT NOW THE IDEA

2:27:51IS THAT UH, THERE IS A LOT

2:27:52OF KIND OF, YOU KNOW,

2:27:54INDIFFERENCE ON WHAT'S GOING ON

2:27:55BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE NOT FULLY

2:27:57AWARE THAT ZOOM LIKE THOSE

2:27:59SESSIONS ARE CRITICALLY

2:28:01IMPORTANT.

2:28:01FOR US TO WIN THAT TO.

2:28:02OTHERS SO THAT THEY UNDERSTAND

2:28:03THERE IS A WILL NEED, YOU KNOW,

2:28:05COMMUNITY TO GET OTHERS TO COME

2:28:07IN AND SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY.

2:28:09OKAY.

2:28:10>> YOU KNOW, I.

2:28:11WOULD ALSO.

2:28:12ADD YOU KNOW, PART OF THIS.

2:28:13ALSO AND UH UM

2:28:16COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE MENTIONED

2:28:17UH GETTING US MORE PEOPLE UM

2:28:19DOJ ACCREDITED.

2:28:20RIGHT.

2:28:21AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS

2:28:22THAT MIRA IS TRYING TO DO.

2:28:23BUT DO YOU QUESTION

2:28:24SPECIFICALLY I THINK ONE OF THE

2:28:25THINGS WE ALSO NEED TO DO IS TO

2:28:27STREAMLINE THE UM.

2:28:30THE FIRMS.

2:28:31RIGHT?

2:28:32>> BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS

2:28:33WE'RE HEARING IF YOU HAVE A

2:28:34FIRM WHO IS HAS TIES TO THE

2:28:37FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR.

2:28:39YOU KNOW.

2:28:40>> HAVE FUNDING THROUGH THE

2:28:41FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THOSE FIRMS

2:28:43ARE LIKELY NOT GOING TO TO BE

2:28:45WORKING ON THESE CASES.

2:28:47SO HOW DO WE STREAMLINE TO MAKE

2:28:49SURE THAT WE ACTUALLY IDENTIFY

2:28:50,UM, FIRMS WHO HAVE NO TIES TO

2:28:52THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WHO

2:28:53DON'T DEPEND ON THE FEDERAL

2:28:55GOVERNMENT AND ARE MORE LIKELY

2:28:56TO TO WORK WITH US.

2:28:57SO I THINK THERE'S THERE'S SOME

2:28:58WORK TO BE DONE THERE AS WELL.

2:29:00OKAY.

2:29:01>> UM AND I GUESS SO FOR

2:29:04ACCREDITATION BECAUSE THIS YOU

2:29:05DO TO ME LIKE WE HAVE JP FIGHTS

2:29:08BACK AND THEY THEY HAVE 200

2:29:11PLUS PEOPLE SIGNED UP FOR LOOSE

2:29:13TRAINING AND SO WE CAN WE CAN

2:29:16CAN I PUSH THOSE PEOPLE.

2:29:17OVER UH INTO INTO THIS UM

2:29:21GUESS.

2:29:22IS THAT.

2:29:22>> I MEAN.

2:29:23>> WE ARE I THINK WE'RE IT ANY

2:29:25HELP IS.

2:29:26HELPFUL AS LONG AS UH THE

2:29:29INTENTION IS THERE SO NO ONE IS

2:29:31THERE BECAUSE AGAIN WE HAVE TO

2:29:32BE CAREFUL NOT TO HURT INSTEAD

2:29:35OF HELPING.

2:29:35BUT AGAIN, AS LONG AS PEOPLE

2:29:37ARE COMING WITH THE IDEA

2:29:39OF HELPING WE CAN USE THAT HELP

2:29:42IN SO MANY WAYS.

2:29:43OKAY, WELL IF YOU HAVEN'T

2:29:44SPOKEN TO ENID EXTREME YET I

2:29:47MEAN THIS WAS A FUNDRAISER OR

2:29:48EVENT IN JP NEXT WEEK AND IT

2:29:50WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE SOMEBODY

2:29:51YEAH YEAH I'M HAPPY TO SPEAK

2:29:53BUT MAYBE WE.

2:29:54CAN BRING.

2:29:55>> YOU.

2:29:56UP ON STAGE.

2:29:57UH UM UH YOU KNOW ANYWAY, SO

2:29:59THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

2:30:00THANK YOU THANK YOU.

2:30:01CHAIR UM.

2:30:02THANK YOU, MR WEBER.

2:30:04UH, COUNCIL THING.

2:30:05I GAVE THE COUNCIL A SIX

2:30:07MINUTES AS OPENING.

2:30:10UH, IF YOU COULD JUST USE THAT

2:30:12SIX MINUTES FOR YOUR OPENING

2:30:14AND QUESTIONS AND THEN WE CAN

2:30:15WRAP UP.

2:30:16THANK YOU.

2:30:17THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:30:18AND THANK YOU FOR SHARING.

2:30:20>> THIS.

2:30:20IMPORTANT HEARING AND TO THE.

2:30:23SPONSORS AS WELL FOR.

2:30:24BRINGING THIS FORWARD.

2:30:26I DO APOLOGIZE FOR BEING LATE.

2:30:29UM, BUT I.

2:30:30WILL WATCH THE VIDEO OVER THE.

2:30:33WEEKEND TO LEARN MORE.

2:30:34ABOUT THE SUBJECT.

2:30:37DURING DURING THE HAITI

2:30:39EARTHQUAKE.

2:30:40I WAS LIVING IN GUANTANAMO AT

2:30:42THE TIME.

2:30:43WHICH IS.

2:30:44WHICH IS NOT VERY FAR FROM

2:30:46HAITI.

2:30:47AND THE THE BASE AT GUANTANAMO

2:30:52THE YES.

2:30:53>> THE.

2:30:53THE AIRFIELD.

2:30:53REALLY UM.

2:30:55WAS USED.

2:30:56AS A.

2:30:56AS AN AIRFIELD FOR SUPPLIES

2:30:58GETTING INTO INTO HAITI.

2:31:01UH BUT BY THE NAVY I WAS.

2:31:03PART OF THE RELIEF EFFORT.

2:31:06UM BUT.

2:31:06HAVE TREMENDOUS RESPECT.

2:31:08>> FOR.

2:31:08THE PEOPLE OF HAITI AND SUPPORT

2:31:12STRONGLY SUPPORT TPS FOR THE

2:31:14HAITIAN COMMUNITY.

2:31:16UM AND I KNOW THE CONTRIBUTIONS

2:31:19THEY HAVE MADE TO OUR CITY AND

2:31:21COUNTRY.

2:31:22SO MAYBE JUST FOLLOWING

2:31:23FOLLOWING UP ON

2:31:24COUNCILOR WEBBER'S QUESTION,

2:31:26UM.

2:31:28IF IF PRIVATE.

2:31:30CITIZENS WANT TO HELP UH,

2:31:33SUPPORT LEGAL EFFORTS TO UM

2:31:36HELP ON LEGAL MATTERS AS IT

2:31:37RELATES TO.

2:31:37IMMIGRATION.

2:31:38>> WHAT IS.

2:31:38>> THE.

2:31:39BEST WAY.

2:31:39FOR PRIVATE CITIZENS.

2:31:41TO GET INVOLVED IN IN IN IN BE

2:31:45HELPFUL.

2:31:47I MEAN IF THEY ARE PRIVATE

2:31:49CITIZEN WITH UH LOW BACKGROUND

2:31:52WHO ARE WILLING TO HELP WITH UH

2:31:54IMMIGRATION UM LEGAL UH

2:31:58OBVIOUSLY WE AT MIRA WE

2:32:00ENCOURAGE FOLKS TO REACH OUT

2:32:01AND VOLUNTEER WITH OUR OFFICE.

2:32:03SO I WOULD ABSOLUTELY ENCOURAGE

2:32:05YOU TO REFER THEM TO OUR OFFICE

2:32:08AND WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR A

2:32:09VOLUNTEER TO STEP UP.

2:32:10OKAY.

2:32:13LEGAL ATTORNEYS ARE NON

2:32:15ATTORNEYS.

2:32:16IT DOESN'T MATTER RIGHT.

2:32:17WELL I THINK IT'S VERY UH.

2:32:19LOOK THIS IS THERE IS A LACK

2:32:25OF QUALIFIED ATTORNEYS AND

2:32:27WHILE WE ARE IN THIS THERE ARE

2:32:28ALSO FOLKS OUT THERE WHO WANT

2:32:31TO ACT LIKE THEY ARE ATTORNEYS.

2:32:33WE KNOW THERE ARE FOLKS WHO ARE

2:32:34THERE WHO ARE USING THIS MOMENT

2:32:37TO STEAL AND FRAUD FOLKS.

2:32:38SO I WOULD BE VERY CAREFUL FOR

2:32:40US ESPECIALLY SOMEONE WHO'S

2:32:41GOING TO VOLUNTEER.

2:32:42WE WANT THEM TO ACTUALLY HAVE

2:32:43THE EXPERIENCE.

2:32:45COULD COULD SOMEONE MAKE.

2:32:47>> A.

2:32:48DONATION THAT MIGHT.

2:32:49HELP OFFSET OR HELP SUPPORT.

2:32:53UM LEGAL EFFORTS?

2:32:54>> COULD THEY.

2:32:55COULD THEY MAKE A FINANCIAL

2:32:56CONTRIBUTION?

2:32:57UM IS THAT IS THAT.

2:32:59SOMETHING PEOPLE COULD DO ALSO.

2:33:01I ALWAYS.

2:33:01SEE WITH.

2:33:02WHAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW THE

2:33:04SKY'S THE LIMIT IN TERMS

2:33:05OF WHAT.

2:33:06PEOPLE CAN DO BECAUSE UH WE SET

2:33:08UP UH A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO UH

2:33:11UM, AN EMERGENCY FAMILY

2:33:12EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FUND TO

2:33:14SUPPORT FAMILIES BECAUSE AGAIN,

2:33:16UH, AS WE SAID, IT'S NOT JUST

2:33:19THE LEGAL.

2:33:19ASPECT IT'S NOW PEOPLE

2:33:22ESPECIALLY THAT THE WINTER

2:33:23MONTHS ARE COMING UPON US.

2:33:24PEOPLE WILL NOT HAVE ANY PLACE

2:33:26TO STAY BECAUSE THEY CANNOT

2:33:27AFFORD TO PAY RENT, NOT BECAUSE

2:33:29THEY DON'T WANT TO PAY THE RENT

2:33:31BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE.

2:33:32OUT OF THEIR WORKPLACE THEY

2:33:34CANNOT GO IN WORK.

2:33:35SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FAMILIES

2:33:36WHO NEED UH, ACCESS TO FOOD.

2:33:40YEAH, ESPECIALLY YOU KNOW,

2:33:42GIVEN EVERYTHING THAT IS GOING

2:33:43ON, EVEN THE UH, HAITIANS UH,

2:33:46ARE QUALIFIED TO BE UH, CUBAN

2:33:48AND TRAINED BUT NOT EVERYONE

2:33:49UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS AND

2:33:51NOT EVERYONE IS ABLE AND

2:33:53WILLING TO GO OUT THERE KNOWING

2:33:55THAT.

2:33:56WE HAVE WHAT WE CALL OUR

2:33:58INDUSTRY.

2:33:58SO WE WE ARE LIVING WITH WHAT

2:34:01WE CALL, YOU.

2:34:01KNOW.

2:34:02>> A TIME WHERE UH IT'S ALMOST

2:34:04LIKE WHEREVER YOU GO YOU ARE AT

2:34:07RISK OF BEING DETAINED.

2:34:08UH, WE HAVE A TESTIMONY

2:34:10OF SOMEONE YOU A US CITIZEN WHO

2:34:12HAS BEEN DETAINED BECAUSE UH,

2:34:15WHEN THEY CAME IN LIKE TWO

2:34:16YEARS AGO, UH, THE OVERSTAYED

2:34:19THEIR VISA AND NOW BECAUSE THEY

2:34:20WERE IN FACT IN FULL OF ICE I

2:34:22SAID OH YEAH, YOU COMMITTED A

2:34:24CRIME YEARS AGO LIKE 20 YEARS

2:34:25AGO.

2:34:26SO AGAIN NO ONE IS UM, UH,

2:34:30PROTECTED RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW,

2:34:32COMMUNITY.

2:34:32SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FOOD.

2:34:34WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MENTAL

2:34:35HEALTH.

2:34:35WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RENT.

2:34:36I MEAN.

2:34:37SO MUCH FOR FOR THAT PEOPLE

2:34:39NEED NOW AND THAT YOU KNOW, THE

2:34:41SKY'S THE LIMIT IN TERMS OF YOU

2:34:42KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW, FINANCIAL

2:34:43CONTRIBUTION CAN DO TO SUPPORT

2:34:45FAMILIES.

2:34:46AND AND I WOULD JUST YOU KNOW

2:34:48NOT DOCTOR GIVEAWAYS NOT

2:34:50DOESN'T MENTION THIS BUT I

2:34:51THINK SHE IS UH I THINK IF

2:34:54THERE ARE FOLKS WHO WANT TO

2:34:56SUPPORT FINANCIALLY UH RIGHT

2:34:57NOW THE BEST WAY TO GIVE IS TO

2:34:59ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE DOING

2:35:01EVERYTHING THAT THAT I JUST

2:35:02DESCRIBED FROM LEGAL AID TO ALL

2:35:04OF THE NECESSARY NEEDS.

2:35:05AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT ABC

2:35:07DOES.

2:35:07AND SO THOSE ARE THE KIND

2:35:08OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT PEOPLE

2:35:09SHOULD BE SUPPORTING IN THIS

2:35:10MOMENT.

2:35:12YEAH.

2:35:12THANK YOU.

2:35:13WHAT WERE THERE.

2:35:17UM SO.

2:35:19WITH WITH.

2:35:21HAITIAN AND HAITIAN.

2:35:23THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY IN BOSTON

2:35:24OR GREATER BOSTON.

2:35:25AND WITH.

2:35:27>> THE POSSIBILITY OF.

2:35:28BEING DEPORTED.

2:35:31ARE WE SEEING A LOT OF HAITIAN

2:35:33WORKERS NOW NOT GOING TO WORK.

2:35:37UM, AND.

2:35:38AFRAID OF GOING TO WORK

2:35:39BECAUSE.

2:35:40>> OF.

2:35:40THE ROLE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

2:35:42COULD PLAY.

2:35:43IN PICKING.

2:35:43UP AS THAT WAS.

2:35:44AND ALSO.

2:35:45OH YEAH, THIS IS THIS IS UH

2:35:47THIS IS A DAY TO DAY KIND OF,

2:35:48YOU KNOW, EXPERIENCE RIGHT NOW

2:35:50THIS WEEK YOU HEARD WHAT

2:35:51HAPPENED IN NEW BEDFORD AND

2:35:53BECAUSE OF THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S

2:35:55ALMOST LIKE EVERY SINGLE CORNER

2:35:56LIKE MIGHT HAVE.

2:35:57BEEN IF YOU WERE TO DRIVE TO

2:35:59MIGHT HAVE BEEN ENGINE YOU

2:36:00MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN SUCH A

2:36:01BOOMING KIND OF NEW COMMUNITY.

2:36:03PEOPLE ALL OF WALKING TALKING

2:36:06AND ONE GO IN FRONT OF OUR

2:36:07OFFICE THERE'S ALWAYS LINE

2:36:09OF PEOPLE AND SOMEBODY WAS JUST

2:36:11VIDEOTAPING AND IN THE VIDEO

2:36:12THEY SAID.

2:36:13WOW.

2:36:14>> LOOK AT.

2:36:15>> WHAT I DID TO OUR COMMUNITY

2:36:17.

2:36:17IT'S ALMOST EMPTY BECAUSE AGAIN

2:36:20PEOPLE.

2:36:21ARE NOT GETTING.

2:36:22OUT AND.

2:36:24AND ONE THING FOR US TO

2:36:25UNDERSTAND IS THAT.

2:36:27BECAUSE OF THIS.

2:36:28UH, AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT HAS

2:36:31BEEN POURED INTO ICE.

2:36:33THEY BECAME SO SOPHISTICATED.

2:36:36THAT I COULD.

2:36:37>> BE TALKING TO YOU RIGHT NOW

2:36:38AND THEN THEY ARE TAKING ME.

2:36:40YOU DON'T EVEN REALIZE WHEN

2:36:41THEY ARE TAKING SO THEY ARE.

2:36:42SUPER SOPHISTICATED WHEN THEY

2:36:45GO FOR EXAMPLE TO ANY PARKING

2:36:46LOT AND THEN PUT THEM UP.

2:36:48AND TAKE THAT UP.

2:36:50SO THEY ARE ABLE.

2:36:50>> TO SEE WHO IS COMING IN, WHO

2:36:51IS LEAVING AND THEY KNOW WHEN

2:36:53TO JUST COME IN.

2:36:53>> GETS YOU.

2:36:54IN THE PAST.

2:36:55WE USED TO HAVE A LOT OF NOISE

2:36:57WHEN I WAS IN THE COMMUNITY

2:36:59BECAUSE WE HAD TIME TO SEE

2:37:00PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO DOCUMENT

2:37:02WITH THEIR, YOU KNOW, CAMERA

2:37:03AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.

2:37:04NOW THEY DO IT IN A WAY THAT IS

2:37:06SO THOUGH.

2:37:06THAT YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW.

2:37:08WHEN THEY ARE COMING.

2:37:09IT'S AFTER.

2:37:09>> SO MANY WAYS SO AND SO AND.

2:37:11>> THEN BEFORE YOU KNOW IT'S

2:37:12BEEN SO HAS BEEN TAKEN.

2:37:12SO IT'S ALMOST LIKE IT'S A IT'S

2:37:14.

2:37:14>> A WAR ZONE RIGHT NOW THAT WE

2:37:16ARE LIVING IN EVERY SINGLE UH

2:37:19CORNER OF OUR COMMUNITIES.

2:37:20YEAH.

2:37:21THE UH.

2:37:22CAN I JUST.

2:37:23>> WANT TO.

2:37:24THANK YOU ONE SECOND.

2:37:26COUNCILOR FLYNN, ONE LAST

2:37:27QUESTION OR.

2:37:29YEAH, I WOULD JUST MAKE A.

2:37:31BRIEF COMMENT.

2:37:31UM.

2:37:34SO WHEN A WORKER DOESN'T GO TO

2:37:37WORK BECAUSE OF THAT POSSIBLE

2:37:40DEPORTATION.

2:37:41I KNOW MANY HAITIAN.

2:37:43PEOPLE WORK IN HOSPITALS.

2:37:45OR SERVICE INDUSTRIES OR I

2:37:48KNOW.

2:37:48>> IN NURSING HOMES AS WELL.

2:37:49BASICALLY YOU DON'T GET PAID

2:37:51ALSO SO IT IS HAVING A

2:37:54DEVASTATING I WOULD ASSUME

2:37:55IMPACT.

2:37:56ON PAYING PAYING RENT ON FOOD

2:37:59ON ABSOLUTELY.

2:37:59ON ELECTRICAL BILLS AND.

2:38:01JUST EVERYDAY LIVING.

2:38:02UM BUT JUST WANT TO SAY THANK

2:38:04YOU TO THE THREE PEOPLE THAT

2:38:05ARE HERE FOR THE IMPORTANT

2:38:06WORK.

2:38:07UM, COMPASSION.

2:38:08THE WORK THAT YOU WERE DOING.

2:38:09THANK YOU.

2:38:09THANK YOU.

2:38:10MR CHAIR.

2:38:11THANK THANK YOU.

2:38:12SO WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE'LL GIVE

2:38:14EACH PANELIST TWO MINUTES AND

2:38:18COUNCIL WHOEVER DO YOU WANT TWO

2:38:19MINUTES TO CLOSE?

2:38:20UH.

2:38:21>> AND GIVE COUNCILOR UH

2:38:24LOUIJEUNE TWO MINUTES AND I'M

2:38:27GOING TO FOREGO MY QUESTIONS

2:38:28BECAUSE MUCH OF WHAT I WANTED

2:38:31TO ASK YOU'VE ALREADY ANSWERED

2:38:33I DO HAVE A FEW THINGS I WANT

2:38:34TO RAISE, BUT, UH, LET ME LET

2:38:37YOU MAKE YOUR FINAL STATEMENT

2:38:40AND WE'LL TRY AND WRAP UP IN

2:38:43THE NEXT FEW MINUTES.

2:38:43THANK YOU.

2:38:46UH, STARTING WITH ME.

2:38:47YES.

2:38:47>> UH, MISS.

2:38:48WELL, I JUST I JUST WANT TO

2:38:51THANK YOU ALL FOR THIS

2:38:52OPPORTUNITY.

2:38:53UH, AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING ON

2:38:55THIS ISSUE.

2:38:56UM, OBVIOUSLY THIS REALLY SHOWS

2:38:58HOW THOUGHTFUL YOU TRYING TO BE

2:38:59ON THIS ISSUE.

2:39:00SO WE REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE

2:39:02AND AT MIRROR WE WANT TO BE A

2:39:04THOUGHTFUL PARTNERS UH, AS WE

2:39:05CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER.

2:39:08UM, AND SO THE LAST THING I

2:39:10JUST WANT TO BRIEFLY SAY, UM,

2:39:12COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU TOUCHED

2:39:13ON THIS EARLIER TOO IS UH, UM,

2:39:17TPS FOR EL SALVADORIAN VERSUS

2:39:20HAITI.

2:39:20UM, ONE OF THE THING AND ALSO

2:39:23TO YOUR QUESTION AND WHAT WHAT

2:39:24IS THE STRATEGY CONTINUE TO BE

2:39:26FROM HERE?

2:39:27ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE

2:39:29HEARING IS THAT THERE ARE A LOT

2:39:31OF BUSINESS OWNERS WHO ARE

2:39:33FRIENDS WITH THE PRESIDENTS BUT

2:39:36ALSO DEPEND ON THE LABOR OF EL

2:39:38SALVADORIAN WHO ARE CALLING HIM

2:39:40.

2:39:41AND ALSO LET'S NOT FORGET THE

2:39:42PRESIDENT OF EL SALVADOR IS A

2:39:44GOOD FRIEND WITH OUR PRESIDENT

2:39:45.

2:39:46SO SO THERE IS THERE SO THERE'S

2:39:48A LOT OF PRESSURE FROM THE

2:39:50BUSINESS COMMUNITY TO CONGRESS

2:39:51AND TO THE PRESIDENT.

2:39:53AND I THINK THAT OUR BUSINESS

2:39:55UH, HONORS BUSINESS COMMUNITY

2:39:57THAT ALSO DEPENDS ON THE LABOR

2:39:58OF UH OF OUR HAITIAN

2:40:00COMMUNITIES NEED TO STEP UP AS

2:40:02WELL AND THAT SHOULD BE PART

2:40:03OF THE STRATEGY BECAUSE UM,

2:40:06CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT DO

2:40:07LISTEN TO A LOT OF THESE

2:40:08BUSINESSES ORDER.

2:40:09SO UH, WE ALSO WANT OUR

2:40:11BUSINESS COMMUNITY WHO DEPEND

2:40:12ON A LABOR OR ASIAN COMMUNITIES

2:40:14TO STEP UP AND THEIR ADVOCACY

2:40:16EFFORT.

2:40:17UM.

2:40:19>> AGAIN, THANK.

2:40:19>> YOU SO.

2:40:20WELL, DOCTOR RUBIO.

2:40:22YEAH, HE'S GOING TO FOR ME THEN

2:40:23I'M OKAY.

2:40:24UH, OKAY.

2:40:25SO JUST.

2:40:26>> A QUICK RESPONSE TO

2:40:27COUNCILOR FLYNN'S QUESTION

2:40:28ABOUT EMPLOYMENT.

2:40:29IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT

2:40:30FOR PEOPLE WHO HAD THEIR WORK

2:40:33AUTHORIZATION ONLY BECAUSE

2:40:34OF TPS, THEY LOST THAT ON

2:40:36AUGUST.

2:40:37>> 5TH SO.

2:40:37THEY DON'T HAVE JOBS TO BE

2:40:39WORRIED ABOUT GOING.

2:40:41TO UM YOU KNOW, SOME OF.

2:40:42>> THOSE.

2:40:43PEOPLE GOT ALTERNATE UM WORK

2:40:45AUTHORIZATION THROUGH ASYLUM

2:40:47AND YES, THEY CAN GO TO THAT

2:40:48WORK WORRIED ABOUT GETTING.

2:40:49PICKED UP BUT BUT THE PEOPLE.

2:40:51>> AT TPS.

2:40:52UM.

2:40:52>> THEY DON'T HAVE A JOB TO GO

2:40:54BACK TO AND A LOT OF THOSE

2:40:55PEOPLE GOT THEIR HEALTH

2:40:55INSURANCE.

2:40:56>> AND.

2:40:56PAID FOR THEIR HEALTH CARE

2:40:57THROUGH THEIR JOB.

2:40:58AND SO.

2:40:59>> THOSE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO.

2:41:00FORGO UM MEDICAL ATTENTION

2:41:02UNTIL THEY ABSOLUTELY NEED TO

2:41:04AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO.

2:41:05GO TO EMERGENCY ROOMS.

2:41:07UM, AND SO JUST IN TERMS

2:41:08OF SUMMING UP, UM, I JUST WOULD

2:41:10LIKE TO THANK EVERYBODY UM.

2:41:12THERE'S YOU KNOW.

2:41:13>> THERE'S A LOT OF WORK TO DO

2:41:14ON IT'S A GREAT CRISIS.

2:41:16>> BUT I'LL INVOKE THE HAITIAN

2:41:17PROVERB.

2:41:17OF MEN UM, BELL SHAPED MANY

2:41:19HANDS MAKE LOVE LIGHT AND IT'S

2:41:21BY EVERYBODY COMING TOGETHER

2:41:23AND WORKING ON A MILLION

2:41:24DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE'RE

2:41:26WE'RE GOING TO CARRY THIS LOAD.

2:41:28GREAT.

2:41:28>> THANK YOU DOCTOR GUMBO.

2:41:29YEAH.

2:41:30AGAIN THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR

2:41:31THIS OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE

2:41:32WITH YOU.

2:41:34UH ESPECIALLY AGAIN THANK YOU,

2:41:36COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR YOUR

2:41:37LEADERSHIP ON THIS ISSUE,

2:41:39COUNSELOR AND CULPEPPER, FOR

2:41:41EVERYTHING THAT YOU ARE DOING

2:41:42TO BRING US TOGETHER.

2:41:43KELSEY.

2:41:43THAT WILL BE A THANK YOU FOR

2:41:45YOUR, YOU KNOW, THOUGHTFUL

2:41:46INSIGHT AND THINKING OUTSIDE

2:41:47OF THE BOX.

2:41:48UH, WHAT I WANT US TO LEAVE

2:41:50THIS ROOM HERE IS THAT THERE IS

2:41:53WILL PAIN WILL PAIN HAPPENING

2:41:56IN EVERY SINGLE CORNER OF OUR

2:41:58COMMUNITIES.

2:41:58FAMILIES ARE HURTING.

2:42:01AND THEY ARE HURTING DEEPLY AND

2:42:02THAT THIS HUMAN DIMENSION

2:42:04OF WHAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW IS

2:42:06SOMETHING FOR US TO CARRY WITH

2:42:07US AS WE GO ABOUT OUR BUSINESS

2:42:09IS TO REMEMBER AS WE ARE

2:42:12PROBABLY ENJOYING OUR TIME, YOU

2:42:14KNOW, WITH OUR OWN FAMILIES

2:42:15THERE ARE FAMILIES WHO CANNOT

2:42:16AFFORD TO BE WITH THEIR

2:42:18CHILDREN, CANNOT AFFORD TO BE

2:42:19WITH THEIR PARENTS AND BECAUSE

2:42:21OF THAT WE ARE CALLED TO DO

2:42:23WHATEVER IT TAKES.

2:42:25TO FIGHT TO PROTECT AND.

2:42:27>> TO SUPPORT.

2:42:27AND AT THE END OF THE DAY I

2:42:29WOULD SAY UM, I AM GRATEFUL FOR

2:42:31THE WORK THAT I'M DOING BECAUSE

2:42:33I KNOW WHEN I GO TO SLEEP I

2:42:35HAVE THIS SMILE THAT I BROUGHT

2:42:37TO SOMEONE'S LIFE AND THAT'S

2:42:39REALLY IT'S THE SENSE OF WHY I

2:42:41AM HERE.

2:42:42WE ALL ARE HERE BECAUSE WE HAVE

2:42:44A CALL TO SERVE.

2:42:45YOU CALLED TO DO SOMETHING.

2:42:47AND WHATEVER WE CAME TO DO.

2:42:49>> THAT THING EVERY SINGLE.

2:42:50DAY OF OUR LIVES LET'S DO IT

2:42:52BECAUSE.

2:42:53WE CAN LIVE A HAPPIER LIFE BY

2:42:56BRINGING HOPE, BY BRINGING A

2:42:57SMILE TO SOMEONE'S LIFE.

2:42:59SO THIS IS A BIG.

2:43:00CRISIS, BUT.

2:43:01THIS IS ALSO A BIG OPPORTUNITY

2:43:02FOR ALL OF US TO STEP UP.

2:43:04AND SHOW THAT WE ARE REALLY UM

2:43:06IN THAT WE CARE ABOUT EACH

2:43:08OTHER.

2:43:08SO THANK.

2:43:09YOU FOR.

2:43:09>> WHAT YOU DO.

2:43:10AND LET'S CONTINUE TO FIGHT.

2:43:11THANK YOU, DOCTOR GABEL.

2:43:14COUNSELOR WEBER.

2:43:18THANK YOU.

2:43:19UH I UH YESTERDAY UH WAS UH

2:43:22SOMEBODY A.

2:43:24CONSTRUCTION WORKER, UH, DIED

2:43:26UH, YOU KNOW, UM, FALLING OFF A

2:43:28SCAFFOLDING IN JAMAICA PLAIN

2:43:29AND MADE ME THINK ABOUT THERE

2:43:32WAS A THERE'S A BOOK BY JIMMY

2:43:34BRESLIN I THINK IT'S CALLED THE

2:43:35SHORT SWEET DREAM OF EDUARDO

2:43:36GUTIERREZ ABOUT A MEXICAN

2:43:37IMMIGRANT WHO COMES TO NEW YORK

2:43:38AND HE DIED, UH, IN A, YOU

2:43:41KNOW, FALLING OFF A SCAFFOLD IN

2:43:42A SIMILAR WAY.

2:43:42AND IN THE BOOK HE, UH JIMMY

2:43:45BRESLIN HAS A LINE SOMETHING

2:43:46ALONG THE LINES OF LIKE I DON'T

2:43:48THINK PEOPLE SOMEBODY'S RIGHTS

2:43:49SHOULD BE DICTATED UH, BASED ON

2:43:51WHAT SIDE OF A LINE THEY WERE

2:43:52BORN ON.

2:43:53UM, AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, WHAT

2:43:55WE'RE SEEING HERE IS JUST YOU

2:43:57KNOW, IT'S IT'S THAT AND MIXED

2:43:59UP, UH, YOU KNOW, IN A STEW

2:44:02WITH WITH JUST WITH RACISM FLAT

2:44:05OUT RACISM AND, YOU KNOW,

2:44:07WATCHING PEOPLE BE HUNTED AND

2:44:10YOU KNOW, FORCED TO WEAR ANKLE

2:44:12MONITORS AND BEING DENIED

2:44:13MEDICAL CARE AND ALL THIS OTHER

2:44:16STUFF IT JUST IT IS SOMETHING

2:44:17THAT YOU KNOW, UH, JUST YOU

2:44:19KNOW, I WANT TO THANK THE

2:44:21PANELISTS AND MY COLLEAGUES FOR

2:44:22FOR FIGHTING AGAINST AND YOU

2:44:24KNOW, I THINK THERE'S THERE'S

2:44:26YOU KNOW, HIGHER CALLING FOR US

2:44:28IS TO TRY TO DO WE CAN AND

2:44:30WHETHER THAT'S YOU KNOW

2:44:32SOMETHING THAT THE THIS THE

2:44:34CITY DOES OR WE JUST DO AS

2:44:37INDIVIDUALS AND WE WORK WITH

2:44:38OTHER PEOPLE TO TO FIND

2:44:40SOLUTIONS FOR I MEAN I

2:44:41CERTAINLY UH HAVE MY SUPPORT

2:44:44AND UM, YOU KNOW, I JUST THANK

2:44:47YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR

2:44:48BRINGING THIS DISCUSSION TO THE

2:44:50CITY HALL TODAY AND THANK YOU

2:44:51FOR SPEAKING SO ELOQUENTLY

2:44:52ABOUT IT.

2:44:53THANK YOU CHAIR.

2:44:54THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

2:44:55WHEREVER COMES OF FLYNN.

2:44:58THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:45:00UH, AS A NATION AND AS A CITY,

2:45:04WE HAVE A MORAL OBLIGATION TO

2:45:05HELP THE PEOPLE OF HAITI THAT

2:45:08ARE LIVING HERE IN BOSTON AND

2:45:10LIVING HERE IN THE UNITED

2:45:11STATES.

2:45:11THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:45:13THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FOR THE

2:45:15COUNCIL.

2:45:15WELL.

2:45:16>> LOUIJEUNE.

2:45:16>> I GOT A LOT TO SAY.

2:45:17THIS IS, UH THIS IS NOT JUST A

2:45:20HEARING FOR ME.

2:45:21THIS IS MY MORNINGS.

2:45:22THIS IS MY NIGHTS.

2:45:23THIS IS THE HEARTACHE THAT WE

2:45:26CARRY AND THAT WE'VE CARRIED

2:45:27FOR SO LONG WITH EACH OF YOU I

2:45:30DO NOT KNOW WHERE I WOULD BE

2:45:32AND HOW WE WOULD BE ABLE TO DO

2:45:33THIS WORK.

2:45:34BRIAN AND IDA MORONEY AND THE

2:45:37WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING OVER AT

2:45:38MIRA AND MY DAILY COME BACK TO

2:45:40AND DOCTOR GOBBLE UM I THE

2:45:44EMAILS, THE TEXTS, THE PHONE

2:45:46CALLS I DON'T KNOW WHERE I

2:45:48WOULD BE IN THIS WORK WITHOUT

2:45:49YOU.

2:45:50UM THIS WORK WOULD BE SO MUCH

2:45:51HARDER TO DO AND TO BEAR AND IT

2:45:53IS ALREADY INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT

2:45:55AS AN AT-LARGE COUNCILOR WHO IS

2:45:57RESPONSIBLE FOR SHOWING UP IN

2:45:58EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD WHO DOES YOU

2:45:59KNOW, IN THE NORTH END TO LATE

2:46:01LAST NIGHT, UM, THAT THIS IS A

2:46:05PARTICULAR LOAD THAT VERY FEW.

2:46:08PEOPLE REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW

2:46:10HEAVY IT IS UM, AND HOW WE WORK

2:46:14AND WITH ALL CREATIVITY IS

2:46:16POSSIBLE TO REALLY HELP PEOPLE

2:46:19SOLVE PROBLEMS WHEN IT SEEMS

2:46:20IMPOSSIBLE.

2:46:21SO I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU

2:46:22FOR THE WORK.

2:46:23UM I WANT TO THANK UM,

2:46:27COUNCILOR CULPEPER FOR HOLDING

2:46:28THIS HEARING.

2:46:29COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU HAVE STOOD

2:46:31WITH US WHETHER IT BE A CAFE

2:46:33AND MAKING PHONE CALLS AND JUST

2:46:36LIKE ALWAYS TEXTING ME OR

2:46:37ALWAYS CALLING ME ASKING YOU

2:46:38WHAT MORE CAN WE DO?

2:46:39WHAT MORE CAN WE DO THAT IS

2:46:42REALLY HELPFUL IN AN

2:46:43ENVIRONMENT THAT IS RACIST, IN

2:46:45AN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS

2:46:46ANTI-BLACK, IN AN ENVIRONMENT

2:46:47THAT IS ANTI-IMMIGRANT.

2:46:49MY WORK HERE ON BEHALF OF THE

2:46:50ASIAN COMMUNITY HAS BEEN

2:46:51BLOCKED BY COLLEAGUES.

2:46:53IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WHEN WE

2:46:55HAVE THE XENOPHOBIA AND THE

2:46:57RACISM OF THIS PRESIDENT THAT

2:46:59WE DON'T FALL INTO THAT TRAP

2:47:01OF SAYING WE CAN'T DO ENOUGH.

2:47:03THERE IS ALWAYS MORE THAT WE

2:47:04CAN DO WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP

2:47:06WITH OUR BUSINESS COMMUNITY,

2:47:07WITH OUR PHILANTHROPIC

2:47:08COMMUNITY, WITH THE STATE AND

2:47:10WE ARE TALKING ABOUT BOSTON

2:47:11RESIDENTS AT THE END OF THE

2:47:12DAY.

2:47:13SO I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO

2:47:15ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE SHOWING UP

2:47:16GENUINELY AND AUTHENTICALLY IN

2:47:17THIS WORK.

2:47:18IT IS EASY TO JUST COME UP AND

2:47:20SHOW UP AND SAY THINGS, BUT TO

2:47:22DO THE WORK AND BE PART OF IT

2:47:23IS HARDER AND I WANT TO SAY

2:47:25THANK YOU VERY MUCH MA'AM BILL

2:47:27CHOPIN.

2:47:28THANK YOU.

2:47:29THANK YOU COUNCILOR EWING AND I

2:47:32JUST WANTED TO READ TWO

2:47:35STATEMENTS INTO THE RECORD UH,

2:47:37THAT I THINK REALLY HIT HOME.

2:47:39THE FIRST ONE IS WITHOUT

2:47:42IMMIGRATION, MASSACHUSETTS

2:47:44LIKELY WOULD HAVE EXPERIENCED

2:47:47OUTRIGHT POPULATION DECLINE

2:47:50OVER MUCH OF THE PAST CENTURY.

2:47:52AND THE SECOND ONE IS THE

2:47:55COMMONWEALTH'S ECONOMY DEPENDS

2:47:56HEAVILY ON IMMIGRANT WORKERS.

2:47:58ACROSS SEVERAL INDUSTRIES,

2:48:00ESPECIALLY IN HEALTH CARE,

2:48:03CONSTRUCTION, HIGHER EDUCATION

2:48:05AND THE BROADER KNOWLEDGE

2:48:08ECONOMY.

2:48:08WHILE IMMIGRANTS MAKE UP ABOUT

2:48:1120% OF THE COMMONWEALTH'S

2:48:13POPULATION, THEY ACCOUNT FOR

2:48:1624% OF THE LABOR FORCE.

2:48:17AND WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE

2:48:20WAY HAITIANS ARE BEING PULLED

2:48:26DOWN IN A MIGHTY WAY WITHOUT.

2:48:30AND I THINK THAT TOOK A BOW,

2:48:32YOU REALLY HIT IT WHEN YOU SAID

2:48:35THE REAL WORK IS GOING FROM

2:48:39DOOR TO DOOR TO MAKE SURE

2:48:42PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE

2:48:47SIGNIFICANCE OF NOT ONLY THE

2:48:49HAITIANS CONTRIBUTION TO THE

2:48:50ECONOMY BUT TO THE DEVASTATION

2:48:54THAT'S TAKING PLACE IN THE

2:48:56HAITIAN COMMUNITY NOW.

2:48:57AND YOU'RE RIGHT, YOU'RE RIGHT

2:49:00FOLKS ALIENATE THEMSELVES

2:49:03EMOTIONALLY AND MENTALLY AND

2:49:05IGNORE IT AS IF IT NOT

2:49:08HAPPENING BECAUSE IT'S NOT AT

2:49:10THEIR DOOR AND I THINK WE HAVE

2:49:12TO TAKE IT TO EVERY DOOR SO

2:49:14EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THE

2:49:16SIGNIFICANT OF WHAT HAITIANS

2:49:19ARE EXPERIENCING NOW BECAUSE

2:49:22YOU'RE RIGHT I USED TO GO TO

2:49:24MATTAPAN WHERE REVEREND KIKI WE

2:49:26STOPPED BY.

2:49:27WE LOOK AT THE VIBRANCY

2:49:29OF FOLKS IN AND OUT E WHEN YOU

2:49:32GO THROUGH MATTAPAN NOW IT'S A

2:49:34SHAME.

2:49:35IT'S LIKE.

2:49:38WHAT DO THEY CALL THOSE TOWNS?

2:49:40NO STONE?

2:49:42NO IN THE SOUTH THEY CALL

2:49:43OF THE.

2:49:43SUNDAY SUNDOWN AND IT REMINDED

2:49:47ME WHEN I RODE THROUGH MATTAPAN

2:49:49OF US SON DOWNTOWN AND THAT

2:49:52JUST CAN'T HAPPEN.

2:49:54SO I JUST HOPE AND PRAY THAT

2:49:55EVERYONE THAT'S LISTENING WILL

2:49:57GO OUT AND TELL SOMEBODY.

2:49:59WE'LL COME OVER AND MAKE SOME

2:50:00CALLS.

2:50:01I WANT TO COME OVER TO JAMAICA

2:50:02PLAIN AND MAKE SOME CALLS AND

2:50:04REALLY MAKE AN EFFORT IN THE

2:50:09CITY OF BOSTON TO REALLY MAKE A

2:50:11DIFFERENCE.

2:50:12I WANT TO THANK YOU TO ALL

2:50:13OF OUR PANELISTS, UH, MY

2:50:15COUNCIL COLLEAGUES AND EVERYONE

2:50:16WHO PARTICIPATED IN TODAY'S

2:50:18HEARING.

2:50:20THE CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE CHANGED

2:50:22DRAMATICALLY SINCE OUR APRIL

2:50:24HEARING.

2:50:24WHAT WE'VE HEARD TODAY WILL

2:50:27HELP US BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW

2:50:29THE TERMINATION OF THE HAITIAN

2:50:31TPS IS AFFECTING BOSTON

2:50:33RESIDENTS AND WHERE ADDITIONAL

2:50:36LEGAL ESPECIALLY LEGAL,

2:50:38ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT

2:50:40IS STILL NEEDED.

2:50:41LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUE TO

2:50:43WORK WITH THE ADMINISTRATION,

2:50:45OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS, MY

2:50:47COLLEAGUES TO MAKE SURE

2:50:49AFFECTED HAITIAN RESIDENTS AND

2:50:50THEIR FAMILIES HAVE ACCESS TO

2:50:52THE RESOURCES AND THE SUPPORT

2:50:55THAT THEY NEED.

2:50:56THIS HEARING ON DOCKET NUMBER

2:50:580299 IS A JOINT.

2:51:00THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

2:51:02THANK YOU.

2:51:03>> IT'S THANK YOU.