Civil Rights, Racial Equity, and Immigrant Advancement on September 25, 2026

0:49 GOOD MORNING.

0:51 MY NAME IS MINYARD.

0:53 CULPEPER DISTRICT SEVEN CITY

0:55 COUNCIL.

0:56 WHERE SOMEONE HAS BEEN AT LARGE

1:00 THIS MORNING BUT I'M.

1:02 DISTRICT SEVEN CITY COUNCILOR.

1:03 CHAIR OF THE PERSON.

1:05 CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON CIVIL

1:07 RIGHTS.

1:08 RACIAL EQUITY AND IMMIGRANT

1:10 ADVANCEMENT.

1:11 TODAY IS SEPTEMBER.

1:14 25TH.

1:14 AND THE EXACT TIME IS 1005.

1:18 THIS HEARING IS BEING RECORDED.

1:19 YEAH.

1:20 IT'S ALSO BEING LIVE

1:23 STREAMED@BOSTON.GOV BACKSLASH

1:25 CITY COUNCIL DASH TV AND

1:28 BROADCAST ON.

1:29 XFINITY CHANNEL EIGHT.

1:32 RCN 82.

1:33 AND FILES CHANNEL 964.

1:36 WRITTEN COMMENTS.

1:37 MAY BE SENT.

1:38 TO THE COMMITTEE EMAIL AND.

1:40 SEEK OUT CIVIL

1:43 RIGHTS@BOSTON.GOV.

1:43 AND WILL BE MADE PART OF THE

1:45 RECORD AND AVAILABLE.

1:47 TO ALL COUNCILORS.

1:48 PUBLIC TESTIMONY WILL.

1:50 BE TAKEN.

1:50 AT THE END OF THIS HEARING.

1:52 INDIVIDUALS WILL BE CALLED ON

1:54 IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY HAVE

1:55 SIGNED UP.

1:56 AND WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES TO

1:58 TESTIFY IF YOU'RE INTERESTED.

2:00 INTERESTED IN TESTIFYING IN

2:03 PERSON, PLEASE.

2:04 ADD YOUR.

2:04 NAME.

2:05 TO THE SIGN.

2:05 UP SHEET.

2:06 NEAR THE ENTRANCE OF THE

2:08 CHAMBER.

2:09 IF YOU'RE.

2:09 LOOKING TO TESTIFY.

2:11 VIRTUALLY, PLEASE.

2:12 EMAIL OUR CENTRAL STAFF

2:13 LIAISON.

2:14 MEGAN KAVANAUGH AND.

2:16 MEGAN KAVANAUGH@BOSTON.GOV.

2:19 FOR THE LINK AND YOUR NAME WILL

2:21 BE ADDED.

2:21 TO THE LIST.

2:23 TODAY'S HEARING IS ON DOCKET

2:24 NUMBER 0299.

2:27 ORDER FOR A HEARING TO CONFRONT

2:29 DETERMINATION.

2:30 OF FEDERALLY PROTECTED STATUS

2:31 FOR.

2:32 ASIAN IMMIGRANTS AND.

2:33 EXAMINE THE CITY OF US RESPONSE

2:36 TO PROTECT AFFECTED RESIDENTS.

2:39 THIS MATTER WAS SPONSORED BY

2:41 COUNCILORS MINYARD CULPEPER

2:44 COUNCILOR JIM.

2:44 HERE COUNCILOR RUTH THE.

2:47 LOUIJEUNE IT WAS FAIR TO THE

2:49 COMMITTEE.

2:53 ON FEBRUARY.

2:54 4TH 2026.

2:54 TODAY I AM JOINED BY MY

2:56 COLLEAGUE COUNCILOR RUFUS.

2:58 THE LEWIS JOHN.

3:00 AND WILL.

3:02 ACKNOWLEDGE THE LETTER FROM OUR

3:05 PRESIDENT COUNCILOR GRAYDON.

3:07 I'LL READ IT INTO THE.

3:08 RECORD PER HER REQUEST.

3:10 DEAR CHAIR CULPEPER, I REGRET

3:13 THAT I.

3:14 AM UNABLE.

3:15 TO ATTEND THIS MORNING'S.

3:16 HEARING AND DOCKET 0299 ORDER

3:19 FOR A HEARING TO CONFRONT THE

3:21 TERMINATION OF FEDERAL

3:23 PROTECTED STATUS FOR HAITIAN.

3:24 IMMIGRANTS AND EXAMINE THE CITY

3:26 OF BOSTON'S RESPONSE TO PROTECT

3:28 AFFECTED RESIDENTS, THE

3:30 POSSIBLE TERMINATION.

3:31 OF FEDERAL PROTECTIVE STATUS

3:33 FOR.

3:34 HAITIAN NATIONALS.

3:35 POSES PROFOUND RISKS FOR

3:37 FAMILIES ACROSS BOSTON.

3:39 AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF A

3:40 WELCOMING CITY WITH A LONG

3:43 STANDING HAITIAN.

3:44 COMMUNITY, I REMAIN COMMITTED.

3:46 TO ENSURING THAT AFFECTED

3:47 RESIDENTS RECEIVE THE SUPPORT,

3:49 LEGAL PROTECTIONS AND

3:51 COORDINATED SERVICES THEY

3:52 DESERVE.

3:53 WHILE I AM UNABLE TO ATTEND.

3:55 TODAY'S HEARING.

3:56 MEMBERS OF MY.

3:57 TEAM WILL BE LISTENING INTO

4:00 THIS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT

4:01 DISCUSSION AND I PLAN TO REVIEW

4:04 THE RECORD AND KINDLY ASK THAT

4:06 YOU READ.

4:06 THIS LETTER INTO THE RECORD.

4:08 THANK YOU.

4:09 ELIZABETH BROOME, PRESIDENT

4:11 OF THE CITY COUNCIL.

4:17 DOCKET NUMBER 0299.

4:21 UM AND GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.

4:24 I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES,

4:26 MY COLLEAGUE.

4:28 AND MY PANELISTS.

4:31 ADVOCATES.

4:32 COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND

4:34 MEMBERS.

4:34 OF THE PUBLIC WITH JOINING.

4:36 US TODAY FOR THIS IMPORTANT

4:37 FOLLOW UP HEARING.

4:39 ON THE TERMINATION.

4:41 OF TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS.

4:43 FOR HAITIAN NATIONALS.

4:44 AND THE CITY'S RESPONSE.

4:47 WE HAD OUR.

4:47 FIRST HEARING ON THIS ISSUE.

4:50 ON APRIL 9TH.

4:51 AT THAT TIME.

4:52 HAITIAN TPS REMAINED PROTECTED.

4:54 BY THE FEDERAL COURTS.

4:55 THE LITIGATION WAS BEFORE THE

4:57 SUPREME COURT AND.

4:58 MUCH OF OUR DISCUSSION FOCUSED

5:01 ON PREPAREDNESS.

5:02 WHAT COULD HAPPEN IF THOSE.

5:04 PROTECTIONS WERE TERMINATED,

5:06 HOW BOSTON RESIDENTS.

5:07 COULD BE AFFECTED.

5:08 AND WHETHER THE CITY WAS.

5:10 PREPARED TO RESPOND.

5:12 UNFORTUNATELY, THE

5:14 CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE CHANGED.

5:15 DRAMATICALLY SINCE THEN.

5:17 ON JUNE 25TH.

5:18 THE SUPREME COURT.

5:19 RULED AND THE LITIGATION.

5:21 INVOLVING THE TERMINATION

5:23 OF TPS FOR HAITI AND.

5:25 SYRIA AND HAITIAN TPS.

5:27 SEPARATE SUBSEQUENTLY.

5:29 ENDED ON.

5:30 JULY 27TH.

5:31 WE ALSO HAVE A CLEARER

5:33 PICTURE TODAY.

5:34 OF THE SCALE.

5:36 OF THE IMPACT IN BOSTON.

5:37 THE ADMINISTRATION'S UPDATED

5:39 AND.

5:40 ANALYSIS ESTIMATES THAT

5:43 APPROXIMATELY 5790.

5:45 HAITIANS IN.

5:46 BOSTON WERE PREVIOUSLY

5:48 COVERED BY TPS, SIGNIFICANTLY

5:51 MORE.

5:51 THAN THE ESTIMATE WE DISCUSSED

5:53 .

5:53 AT OUR APRIL HEARING.

5:54 THE ADMINISTRATION HAS ALSO

5:56 IDENTIFIED APPROXIMATELY.

5:59 1800 CHILDREN AND MORE THAN

6:01 8300 OTHER ADULT FAMILY.

6:03 AND HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS.

6:05 WHO COULD BE AFFECTED BY THE

6:06 DEPORTATION OF HAITIAN.

6:08 NON-CITIZEN ADULTS.

6:10 DEMONSTRATING THAT THE

6:11 CONSEQUENCES EXTEND.

6:13 FAR BEYOND INDIVIDUAL TPS

6:16 HOLDERS.

6:17 SO TODAY.

6:18 I WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT

6:19 HAS HAPPENED SINCE JULY 27TH.

6:21 WHAT WE ARE SEEING ON THE

6:23 GROUND AND WHETHER THE RESPONSE

6:24 .

6:25 MATCHES THE.

6:26 SCALE OF THE NEED.

6:27 WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS

6:28 HAPPENING TO RESIDENTS WHO LOST

6:30 THEIR WORK.

6:31 AUTHORIZATION, WHETHER PEOPLE

6:33 ARE FINDING ALTERNATIVE FORMS

6:36 OF IMMIGRATION RELIEF, WHETHER

6:38 OUR.

6:38 LEGAL SERVICE.

6:39 PROVIDERS HAVE SUFFICIENT

6:41 CAPACITY.

6:42 AND WHAT ADDITIONAL.

6:43 RESOURCES THE CITY AND THIS

6:45 COUNCIL CAN PROVIDE.

6:46 AND FINALLY, WE NEED TO HEAR

6:49 DIRECTLY.

6:49 FROM THE ORGANIZATION.

6:51 SERVING BOSTON'S.

6:52 HAITIAN COMMUNITY.

6:54 OUR SECOND PANEL INCLUDES

6:56 REPRESENTATIVES FROM MIRA, THE

6:57 INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE AND

7:00 DEMOCRACY.

7:00 IN HAITI AND THE IMMIGRANT.

7:02 FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE.

7:04 THESE ORGANIZATIONS.

7:05 CAN HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT

7:07 RESIDENTS ARE EXPERIENCING.

7:08 ON THE GROUND.

7:10 WHERE THE CITY'S RESPONSE IS

7:11 WORKING.

7:12 AND WHERE.

7:13 ADDITIONAL SUPPORT IS

7:14 NEEDED.

7:15 WITH THAT, LET US GET STARTED

7:17 AND I'D LIKE.

7:18 TO.

7:19 UM, ANNOUNCE THE ARRIVAL.

7:21 OF ONE OF THE.

7:23 CO-SPONSORS, COUNCILOR JULIAN

7:26 MEJIA.

7:27 I GIVE.

7:28 EACH COUNCILOR SIX MINUTES

7:30 FOR.

7:30 THE OPENING STATEMENT AND

7:31 THEN WE'LL TURN.

7:32 TO OUR PANELISTS.

7:33 OUR FIRST.

7:35 SPEAKER.

7:37 COUNCILOR BRUCE.

7:37 THE LOUIJEUNE COUNCILOR.

7:39 YOU HAVE SIX MINUTES.

7:40 GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.

7:41 BOUCHER MOON MERCY PASCAGOULA

7:43 UM, THIS IS A TOPIC AND AN

7:46 ISSUE THAT MY OFFICE HAS BEEN

7:49 WORKING ON ENDLESSLY DAY AND

7:51 NIGHT AND I MEAN THAT LITERALLY

7:52 AND FIGURATIVELY.

7:53 I WAS TALKING TO BRIAN

7:55 CONCANNON, THE HEAD OF THE

7:57 INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE DEMOCRACY

7:58 IN HAITI ABOUT HOW, YOU KNOW, I

8:00 FELL YESTERDAY HAD A LOT

8:02 OF ISSUES GOING ON AND AT THE

8:03 SAME TIME I GOT A CALL FROM A

8:05 CONSTITUENT WHO WAS BEING

8:07 REJECTED FROM SERVICES AT A

8:09 LEGAL SERVICES ORGANIZATION.

8:11 I GOT ON THE PHONE IN THE

8:12 MIDDLE OF EVERYTHING WITH UM

8:14 THE HEAD OF THE IMMIGRATION

8:15 CLINIC THERE TO MAKE SURE THAT

8:17 THAT WOMAN COULD TURN AROUND

8:18 AND RECEIVE SERVICES.

8:19 WE ARE IN A DIRE DIRE STRAITS

8:22 UM, SINCE THE UH SUPREME COURT

8:25 DECISION CAME OUT IN LATE IN

8:27 LATE JUNE, UH, PEOPLE'S

8:30 IMMIGRATION STATUS HAS

8:31 TERMINATED, WHICH HAS LED TO

8:32 THEIR INABILITY TO DO THINGS

8:33 LIKE PAY THEIR RENT AND PAY

8:36 MORTGAGES.

8:37 SO THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE

8:38 DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS THAT

8:39 HAVE WORKED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

8:40 OUR OFFICE TO PUT ON FOOD

8:43 PANTRIES.

8:43 UM, OBVIOUSLY IFC WILL BE ON

8:45 THE PANEL LATER.

8:46 WE'VE DONE A NUMBER OF JOINT

8:47 LEGAL CLINICS WITH THEM AND WE

8:49 STILL KNOW THAT THERE ARE NOT

8:51 ENOUGH ATTORNEYS.

8:52 UH, WE KNOW THAT THE STATE'S

8:54 MACY HOTLINE IN PARTNERSHIP

8:55 WITH MIRA HAS A SIX MONTH

8:58 BACKLOG AND WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO

9:00 NEED ATTORNEYS YESTERDAY, UM,

9:02 THANKS TO A WONDERFUL COALITION

9:04 OF PEOPLE.

9:04 UH, THANKS TO OUR FEARLESS

9:06 CONGRESSWOMAN AYANNA PRESSLEY,

9:07 WE GOT A BILL PASSED OUT OF THE

9:10 HOUSE AND IT WAS A BIPARTISAN

9:12 BILL TO EXTEND TPS.

9:14 THAT SAME EFFORT IS BEING DONE

9:16 IN THE SENATE TODAY AS PART

9:17 OF A NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION

9:19 ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHERE CITIES

9:21 ARE CALLING MEMBERS OF THE

9:23 SENATE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY

9:25 SIGN ON AS CO-SPONSORS TO SB UH

9:28 TO SENATE BILL 4814.

9:31 THERE ARE ONLY THREE DEMOCRATIC

9:34 SENATORS WHO HAVE NOT SIGNED ON

9:35 TO THE BILL.

9:36 SO LATER TODAY IF YOU WOULD

9:37 LIKE TO JOIN US, WE WILL BE AT

9:39 MIRROR MAKING PHONE CALLS TO

9:41 THOSE SENATORS.

9:42 UM, WE PASSED A RESOLUTION I

9:44 BELIEVE A FEW WEEKS AGO AFTER

9:45 IT WAS INITIALLY BLOCKED UH UH

9:49 ALONGSIDE MYSELF AND

9:51 CANCER COUNCIL PRESIDENT LUIZ

9:52 BREADON CALLING A RESOLUTION TO

9:54 STREAMLINE HOUSING ASSISTANCE

9:55 FOR THOSE WHO ARE AFFECTED BY

9:57 TPS.

9:58 UH NOT NOT SOLELY UM ASSISTANCE

10:01 BUT A PLAN.

10:03 UH, LOOKING AT THE REGS,

10:04 LOOKING AT WHAT CAN OR WHAT

10:06 NEEDS TO BE ADJUSTED.

10:08 AND I WANT TO THANK THE STATE

10:09 FOR THEIR PARTNERSHIP IN MAKING

10:12 AND REVIEWING AND IN WORKING

10:15 WITH UH IFRC IN OUR OFFICE AND

10:18 IN THE OFFICE OF HOUSING

10:19 STABILITY AND RECOGNIZING THAT

10:21 THERE ARE ISSUES UH, THAT WE

10:23 NEED TO UH, UPSTREAM ISSUES

10:25 THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS NOW TO

10:26 THE DOWNSTREAM ISSUES OF MORE

10:28 AND MORE PEOPLE GOING INTO

10:30 SHELTER.

10:30 AND SO THESE ARE EXTREMELY AND

10:33 INCREDIBLY HARD TIMES.

10:35 UM, IT WEIGHS HEAVY ON SO MANY

10:38 IN OUR COMMUNITY AND ON OUR

10:40 BACKS.

10:40 AND I JUST WANT TO THANK

10:42 EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN FIGHTING.

10:43 UH, TOGETHER WE HAVE A LOT

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

10:47 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF OUR

10:48 STUDENT POPULATION OF OF TPS

10:52 HOLDERS OF HAITIAN OF HAITIAN

10:53 STUDENTS.

10:53 THAT'S BEEN A PRECIPITOUS

10:55 DECLINE EVEN AFTER LAST YEAR.

10:57 WE'RE SEEING A CONTINUED

10:58 DECLINE.

10:59 WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE OTHER

11:00 COUNTRIES EL SALVADOR STATUS

11:01 RIGHT NOW FOR TPS IS MURKY.

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

11:06 WE HAVE TO DO COLLECTIVELY AND

11:07 COLLABORATIVELY AND I AM SO

11:09 GRATEFUL FOR ALL OF THE PEOPLE

11:11 WHO ARE DOING THAT WORK

11:12 TOGETHER IN HAITIAN CREOLE WE

11:12 HAVE A SAYING MAY PALU MANY

11:15 HANDS MAKE THE BURDEN LIGHT AND

11:16 I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO

11:17 HAS BEEN PART.

11:19 OF OF OF.

11:20 MAKING THAT BURDEN LIGHT

11:21 OUTLINED AND SAYING YOU KNOW, I

11:23 LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING THE

11:24 WORK OF MOYA.

11:25 UH, TWO WEEKS AGO I RECEIVED A

11:26 TEXT MESSAGE FROM A TPS

11:29 RECIPIENT WHO TOLD ME THAT HER

11:31 CHILD WAS HAVING SUICIDAL

11:33 IDEATIONS AND THAT SHE HAD HIT

11:34 THE END OF HER ROAD BECAUSE

11:38 OF THE LACK OF EMPLOYMENT AND

11:39 BECAUSE OF HER AND BECAUSE SHE

11:42 DIDN'T KNOW HOW SHE WAS GOING

11:43 TO PAY HER MORTGAGES.

11:44 WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE

11:45 ARE PUTTING ALL OF THE

11:46 RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE

11:47 AVAILABLE TO ADDRESS THE MENTAL

11:48 HEALTH ISSUES AND THE HOUSING

11:50 NEEDS OF ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS.

11:51 THANK YOU.

11:54 THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

11:55 COUNCILOR.

11:56 MY HERE YOU HAVE.

11:58 SIX MINUTES.

12:00 WOW, YOU'RE VERY GENEROUS.

12:03 COUNCILOR CHAIR.

12:04 NORMALLY OPENING REMARKS ONLY

12:06 TWO.

12:06 YOU WANT ME TO TAKE?

12:07 YEAH.

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

12:09 TAKE TO UM I ALSO WANT TO BE

12:12 MINDFUL THAT WE'RE HERE TO

12:14 LISTEN AND SO I AM A GRATEFUL,

12:16 UH, TO COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR

12:18 HER STEADFAST LEADERSHIP, UM,

12:21 AND COMMITMENT.

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

12:23 SEE MY PEOPLE SUFFER, RIGHT?

12:27 AND SOMETIMES WE HOLD THESE

12:30 THINGS SO MUCH MORE.

12:32 AT OUR HEART.

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

12:36 ONES.

12:36 AND I THINK THIS ADVOCACY IN

12:39 REGARDS TO WHAT THE CITY CAN DO

12:42 IN TERMS OF INCREASING OUR

12:44 SUPPORT SERVICES, IT'S NOT JUST

12:46 A CONVERSATION FOR THE SAKE

12:47 OF HAVING ONE.

12:47 IT'S REALLY UNDERSTANDING THAT

12:48 THIS MOMENT IS GOING TO REQUIRE

12:50 US TO POUR OUR DOLLARS INTO UH,

12:54 FUNDING UH, WHATEVER IT TAKES

12:56 TO UM TO ENSURE THAT THE SAFETY

13:00 NET I'M THINKING SPECIFICALLY

13:02 AROUND SOME OF THE MUTUAL AID I

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

13:05 GOTTEN A LOT OF CALLS FROM OUR

13:06 OFFICE IN REGARDS TO UM, FOLKS

13:10 NOW AFRAID TO GO TO THE FOOD

13:11 PANTRY SO ASKING FOR SUPPORT

13:14 FOR DELIVERY DRIVERS.

13:16 WE'VE BEEN GETTING A LOT

13:17 OF CALLS FROM FOLKS WHO NOW AS

13:19 A RESULT OF THIS UM, ARE

13:22 FEELING THE CRUNCH NOT JUST

13:24 WITH HOUSING BUT ALSO WITH

13:27 WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE GOING TO

13:29 YOU KNOW, NOW THEY'RE LOSING

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

13:32 COLLECT UNEMPLOYMENT AND SO

13:34 WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE?

13:36 UM, AND SO WHAT OUR OFFICE DID

13:38 IN FEBRUARY IN PREPARATION FOR

13:40 THIS UM, EARLIER WE HIRED

13:43 SOMEONE SPECIFICALLY JUST TO

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

13:46 LIAISON TO HELP US, YOU KNOW,

13:48 GET READY FOR THIS.

13:50 BUT IT NEVER CAME.

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

13:55 NOW WE ALSO HAVE TO FIGURE OUT

13:56 HOW WE SUPPLEMENT THAT WORK,

13:59 UM, FROM OUR OFFICE SO THAT WE

14:00 HAVE SOMEONE IN DIRECT

14:02 COMMUNICATION.

14:02 SO I THINK THAT THIS IS

14:04 STAFFING FUNDING AND THEN

14:07 COORDINATION AND I'LL JUST END

14:09 WITH I ALWAYS SAY THAT BOSTON

14:10 IS RESOURCE RICH BUT

14:11 COORDINATION FOR THIS IS REALLY

14:13 AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO LOOK

14:15 AT ALL CITY DEPARTMENTS AND I'M

14:16 GLAD THAT MOYA IS HERE.

14:17 BUT THERE ARE OTHER DEPARTMENTS

14:19 THAT INTERFACE THERE'S HOUSING.

14:22 UM I WOULD HAVE YOU KNOW THEY

14:24 THEY THEY PLAY A ROLE IN THIS.

14:26 RIGHT.

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

14:28 AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO ALSO

14:30 BE INVOLVED IN THIS

14:31 CONVERSATION FOR OUR LEGAL

14:31 DEPARTMENT.

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

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

14:38 INTERACTING AND INTERFACING

14:39 WITH OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS AS

14:41 IT RELATES TO THIS SO THAT

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

14:45 KNOW, PERSON CARRYING THIS.

14:46 SO JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO

14:48 DIGGING IN A LITTLE BIT DEEPER.

14:50 THANK YOU.

14:50 THANK YOU, CONCILOR MEJIA UH.

14:52 AT THIS TIME.

14:53 I'D LIKE.

14:54 TO NOW.

14:55 INTRODUCE TODAY'S

14:57 ADMINISTRATION PANELIST.

14:58 COURTNEY WHITE, UH, INTERIM

15:01 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE.

15:02 MAYOR'S OFFICE.

15:04 OF IMMIGRANT ADVANCEMENT.

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

15:07 WELL SAY THAT NOW THAT YOU'RE

15:08 THERE, YOU CAN SAY THAT EVEN

15:10 THOUGH YOU'LL BE ON THE SECOND

15:11 PANEL, YOU CAN STAY THERE.

15:14 THERE'S PLENTY OF ROOM AT THE

15:16 TABLE.

15:18 COURTNEY, YOU HAVE SIX MINUTES.

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

15:23 UM, BUT THANK YOU, COUNCILORS.

15:24 FOR CALLING THIS HEARING

15:25 TODAY.

15:25 THANK YOU FOR HIGHLIGHTING SOME

15:27 OF THE CONCERNS THAT WE'VE

15:28 REALLY BEEN SEEING IN OUR

15:30 COMMUNITIES THROUGH OUR

15:30 CONSTITUENT SERVICES TEAM,

15:32 THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH

15:33 .

15:34 AND YOU'LL HEAR FROM THE

15:35 PANELISTS A LOT OF WHAT THEY'RE

15:36 SEEING ON THE GROUND.

15:37 UM, SO AS COUNCILOR CULPEPPER

15:39 SAID, MY NAME IS COURTNEY

15:40 WHITE.

15:40 I AM THE INTERIM EXECUTIVE

15:42 DIRECTOR FOR MOY.

15:43 UM UM I WAS PREVIOUSLY OUR

15:45 DIRECTOR OF CONSTITUENT

15:46 SERVICES.

15:47 SO INTERFACING REALLY.

15:48 CLOSELY WITH OUR COMMUNITY

15:49 PARTNERS AND OUR CONSTITUENTS.

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

15:53 BACKGROUND ON TEMPORARY

15:54 PROTECTED STATUS FOR FOLKS WHO

15:56 MIGHT NOT BE FAMILIAR.

15:57 SO IT IS A FORM OF TEMPORARY

15:59 STATUS.

15:59 IT'S A HUMANITARIAN IMMIGRATION

16:01 STATUS GRANTED BY THE

16:02 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

16:03 .

16:04 UM, IT IT ALLOWS FOR FOLKS TO

16:06 GENERALLY NOT BE DEPORTED UM,

16:08 ALLOWED TO WORK BUT DOES NOT

16:09 PROVIDE A DIRECT PATHWAY TO

16:11 PERMANENT RESIDENCY.

16:13 UM AND AS COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

16:15 ALLUDED TO, UM, YOU KNOW,

16:17 PARTICULARLY WITH THE SITUATION

16:18 WITH EL SALVADOR TYPICALLY UM

16:20 60 DAYS BEFORE A STATUS IS DUE

16:23 TO EXPIRE, UH, A HOMELAND

16:24 SECURITY SECRETARY MUST

16:25 DETERMINE WHETHER TO RENEW IT,

16:28 DESIGNATE A RE DESIGNATE FOR

16:29 EXPANDED TO INCLUDE NEW

16:30 ARRIVALS FROM THE COUNTRY OR

16:32 TERMINATE IT.

16:35 UM SO JUST ZONING A ZOOMING IN

16:38 ON TPS FOR HAITI AND BOSTON IN

16:40 PARTICULAR.

16:42 UM IT WAS FIRST DESIGNATED IN

16:44 JANUARY 2010 FOLLOWING THE

16:45 DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE.

16:47 UM THEN RE DESIGNATED

16:48 SUBSEQUENTLY AND BLESS YOU UH

16:50 2011 2021 2022 AND 2024 SO

16:54 REALLY SHOWING THE NEED FOR

16:56 CONTINUED PROTECTIONS FOR THIS

16:58 COMMUNITY UM UNFORTUNATELY

17:00 ENDED UH, IN JULY FOLLOWING A

17:02 U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION AND

17:04 LIFTING OF COURT PAUSES.

17:06 UM AND WE ESTIMATE THAT AROUND

17:07 55,000 HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS IN

17:09 GREATER BOSTON ARE IMPACTED.

17:11 UM, AND AS WE WERE TALKING

17:13 ABOUT BEFORE, HAITIANS IN

17:14 BOSTON ARE THE THIRD LARGEST

17:15 FOREIGN BORN GROUP IN THE CITY.

17:17 UM, WE ESTIMATE THAT THERE ARE

17:19 AROUND 15,851 IN IN THE BOSTON

17:23 AREA WITH 5700 BEING

17:26 NON-CITIZENS.

17:28 UM AND AS COUNCILOR CULPEPER UM

17:31 MENTIONED EARLIER, WE DO HAVE A

17:33 LITTLE BIT OF UM SOME DIFFERENT

17:34 STATISTICS THAN WE LAST

17:35 PRESENTED.

17:36 UM, THAT IS BECAUSE THE DATA

17:38 WAS NOT QUITE AVAILABLE WHEN WE

17:39 FIRST PRESENTED.

17:40 SO AS YOU CAN SEE UM THE NUMBER

17:42 HAS DEFINITELY GROWN.

17:44 THERE ABOUT 5790 HAITIANS IN

17:47 BOSTON WHO WERE PREVIOUSLY

17:48 COVERED BY TEMPORARY PROTECTED

17:50 STATUS.

17:52 UM AND YOU'LL SEE ALSO A

17:53 POPULATION OF 1302 FOR EL

17:56 SALVADOR UM AS WELL AS NUMBERS

17:58 FOR UKRAINE, VENEZUELA AND

17:59 HONDURAS.

18:02 UM SO A BIT OF AN UPDATE ON

18:04 WHERE LITIGATION STANDS.

18:06 UM, SO JUST GOING QUICKLY

18:08 THROUGH THIS UM, IN NOVEMBER

18:09 OF LAST YEAR THE FEDERAL

18:10 ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCED THAT

18:12 HAITI'S TPS DESIGNATION AND

18:14 BENEFITS WOULD TERMINATE ON

18:15 FEBRUARY 3RD.

18:16 UM, THERE WERE SOME COURT UH,

18:18 CASES TO ATTEMPT TO STAY THIS

18:20 DECISION.

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

18:23 TO THE SUPREME COURT.

18:24 UM, AND ON JUNE 25TH THE

18:26 SUPREME COURT RULED THAT THE

18:27 IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT

18:29 PREVENTS JUDGES FROM SECOND

18:30 GUESSING OR BLOCKING GOVERNMENT

18:32 DECISIONS TO GRANT, EXTEND OR

18:34 END A COUNTRY'S TPS DESIGNATION

18:36 .

18:37 UM, SO WHAT THAT DID WAS IT

18:38 LIFTED BLOCKS IN PLACE BY THE

18:40 LOWER COURT AND PAVED THE WAY

18:41 FOR THE FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION

18:43 TO TERMINATE TPS.

18:44 AND WE'RE REALLY CONCERNED

18:45 ABOUT THE BROADER IMPLICATIONS

18:46 AND IMPACT HERE BECAUSE IT SET

18:48 A PRECEDENT FOR TERMINATION

18:49 OF OTHER FORTHCOMING

18:51 DESIGNATIONS, UH, BECAUSE

18:52 FUTURE LEGAL CHALLENGES WILL,

18:53 UM, BECOME DIFFICULT.

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

18:57 SALVADOR IS, UM UP FOR

18:59 TERMINATION.

18:59 THE DESIGNATION EXPIRED ON

19:02 SEPTEMBER 9TH, BUT PROTECTIONS

19:03 AND WORK PERMITS ARE STILL IN

19:04 PLACE.

19:05 UM, AND THEN WE'RE REALLY

19:06 CONCERNED FOR SUDAN, UKRAINE,

19:08 UM, AND LEBANON IN PARTICULAR.

19:13 UM AND IN CONGRESS UM, VERY

19:15 QUICKLY BECAUSE I KNOW I AM UH

19:17 ,RUNNING SHORT ON TIME.

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

19:21 ,REFERENCE WHAT UH,

19:22 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE WAS

19:23 MENTIONING UM THAT THERE.

19:25 YES.

19:25 AND I'LL GIVE YOU EXTRA

19:26 TIME.

19:26 OH.

19:27 THANK YOU.

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

19:31 UM WE DID HAVE A REP UM,

19:33 CONGRESSWOMAN AYANNA PRESSLEY,

19:35 UH, DISCHARGE POSITION THAT

19:37 WENT THROUGH UM AND NOW WE ARE

19:39 WAITING TO SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN

19:41 IN THE SENATE.

19:41 UM, AND WE ARE HOPING THAT THE

19:43 SENATE BILL WILL PASS.

19:44 WE'RE WAITING I THINK THERE ARE

19:46 3438 FOLKS WHO HAVE SIGNED ON

19:49 AND WE ARE WAITING FOR A

19:50 MAJORITY OF 60.

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

19:54 EVERYONE I THINK IS HOPING TO

19:56 HEAR THE MOST ABOUT UM SO THESE

19:58 ARE UM THE ANTICIPATED

20:00 COMMUNITY IMPACTS AND SOME

20:02 OF THESE WERE ALREADY SEEN IN

20:03 OUR COMMUNITIES.

20:04 SO HOUSING INSECURITY, FAMILIES

20:06 FACING EVICTION AND RETURNING

20:07 TO SHELTER.

20:08 LOSS OF ACCESS TO SAFETY NET

20:11 PROGRAMS SUCH AS HOME BASE.

20:12 UM WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT

20:14 NOTARIAL FRAUD AND SCAMS.

20:15 PEOPLE TAKING UM ADVANTAGE

20:17 OF OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS BEING

20:18 REALLY FEARFUL AND SCARED ABOUT

20:20 THEIR STATUS BENEFITS ON

20:22 ENROLLMENT, FAMILIES LOSING

20:23 ACCESS TO THEIR BENEFITS.

20:25 UM AND FOR THOSE THAT ARE STILL

20:26 ELIGIBLE UH, WITH THE NEW

20:28 PUBLIC CHARGE UH RULE SEEING A

20:29 CHILLING EFFECT OF PEOPLE

20:31 EITHER NOT ENROLLING OR ON

20:32 ENROLLING.

20:33 UM, AS THE COUNSELOR ALLUDED TO

20:35 INCREASED LEVELS OF ANXIETY,

20:36 FEAR AND EMOTIONAL DISTRESS

20:39 EDUCATIONAL DISRUPTION.

20:41 SO WE'RE SEEING INCREASED

20:42 ABSENTEEISM UM, AS WELL AS

20:43 ANXIETY DUE TO LOOMING THREAT

20:45 OF PARENTAL DEPORTATION.

20:46 AND THEN OF COURSE UM,

20:48 IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT

20:49 OF PEOPLE WITH NO STATUS

20:50 LEADING TO FAMILY SEPARATIONS.

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

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

20:56 INDIVIDUALS ARE REPORTING TO

20:58 THEIR ICE CHECK INS, UM, AND

20:59 THEY'RE HAVING THEIR PASSPORTS

21:00 CONFISCATED AND ARE BEING

21:01 FORCED TO WEAR ANKLE MONITORS.

21:03 AND WE WITNESSED THE TRAGIC

21:04 DEATH THE OTHER WEEK OF, UM THE

21:07 COLLEGE STUDENT IN OHIO, PIERRE

21:09 UM BELL, WHO DIED BY SUICIDE

21:11 BECAUSE HE WAS BULLIED AND FELT

21:13 ASHAMED OF HAVING TO WEAR THAT

21:14 ANKLE MONITOR.

21:16 UH, WE'RE ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT

21:17 THE IMPACTS ON THE FAMILIES,

21:19 UM, AND THE CHILDREN THAT MIGHT

21:20 BE LEFT BEHIND THAT KNOW THE

21:21 UNITED STATES AS THEIR HOME.

21:23 UM, SO OF THE 1800 CHILDREN AND

21:26 OTHER ADULT FAMILY MEMBERS THAT

21:27 WOULD BE IMPACTED, 75% OF THOSE

21:29 CHILDREN ARE U.S. CITIZENS.

21:31 AND WE'RE REALLY CONCERNED THAT

21:32 THESE FAMILIES WILL BE FORCED

21:33 TO MAKE THAT CHALLENGING

21:35 DECISION WHETHER TO, UH, RETURN

21:37 TO HAITI TOGETHER OR SEPARATE.

21:40 UM, AND SO THESE ARE THE

21:42 COMMUNITY NEEDS THAT WE'VE BEEN

21:43 IDENTIFYING AND UNDERNEATH AS

21:45 BULLETS ARE THE RESPONSES THAT

21:46 UM, MOYA ALONG WITH OTHER CITY

21:48 DEPARTMENTS HAVE HAD.

21:49 SO WE'RE REALLY SEEING A NEED

21:50 FOR BROAD BASED COMMUNITY

21:52 SUPPORT.

21:53 UM, SO ALONGSIDE

21:54 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE, MAYOR WU

21:55 LED OVER 100 MAYORS AND LOCAL

21:58 OFFICIALS IN URGING THE US

21:59 SENATE TO PASS UM SENATE BILL

22:01 FOR A 4814 AND EXTEND TEMPORARY

22:04 PROTECTED STATUS.

22:05 WE'RE ALSO SHOWING OUR SUPPORT

22:06 AND PRESENCE AT RALLIES IN

22:08 SUPPORT OF THE COMMUNITY.

22:09 WE'RE SIGNING ON TO AMICUS

22:11 BRIEFS AND WE'RE ALSO ENSURING

22:12 THAT WE'RE HAVING ONGOING

22:13 DIALOG WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS

22:15 SUCH AS THE MIA COALITION, UM

22:17 AND FC.

22:18 WE'RE SEEING THE NEED FOR QUICK

22:19 AND ACCURATE UM AND LANGUAGE

22:21 ACCESSIBLE INFORMATION.

22:22 SO WE CREATED A KNOW YOUR

22:24 RIGHTS UM DISSEMINATION

22:25 CAMPAIGN.

22:26 YOU CAN VISIT OUR WEBSITE

22:28 BOSTON.GOV/BELONGING TO RECEIVE

22:29 ALL OF THESE MATERIALS FOR YOUR

22:31 COMMUNITIES IN HAITIAN CREOLE.

22:32 AND WE ALSO HOSTED IN

22:34 COLLABORATION WITH THE MIRROR

22:36 COALITION A FAMILY PREPAREDNESS

22:37 WEBINAR FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS.

22:39 SO HOW CAN SERVICE PROVIDERS

22:40 HAVE THAT REALLY CHALLENGING

22:41 CONVERSATION WITH FAMILIES

22:43 ABOUT PREPARING FOR YOUR

22:44 FUTURE?

22:45 UM WE'RE SEEING EMERGENCY

22:46 SHELTER AND SAFETY NET BENEFITS

22:48 ACCESS CHALLENGES AS I

22:49 MENTIONED.

22:50 SO WE ARE HAVING ONGOING

22:51 CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN OUR

22:53 OFFICE, THE OFFICE OF HOUSING

22:54 UM AND THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE

22:56 OF HOUSING AND LIVABLE

22:57 COMMUNITIES.

22:58 AND THEN WE'RE ALSO

22:59 COLLABORATING WITH THE HEALTH

23:01 COMMISSION ON A HEALTH BENEFITS

23:02 AWARENESS CAMPAIGN.

23:04 UM, IN MOST IMPORTANTLY

23:07 ENFORCEMENT RELATED LEGAL

23:08 SUPPORT.

23:08 SO WE ARE REALLY GRATEFUL TO

23:10 THE COUNCIL FOR THE AMENDMENTS

23:11 THAT YOU ALL FILED, UM, THAT

23:12 HAVE ENABLED US TO CONTINUE A

23:14 FIFTH ROUND OF OUR IMMIGRATION

23:15 LEGAL ACCESS GRANTS.

23:16 WE TRIED TO GET THOSE OUT AS

23:18 SOON AND EARLY AS POSSIBLE.

23:20 SO WE ANTICIPATE UM WE ARE

23:21 CURRENTLY REVIEWING

23:23 APPLICATIONS AND ANTICIPATE

23:24 GETTING FUNDING OUT TO

23:25 COMMUNITY IN NOVEMBER.

23:27 WE CONTINUE TO OFFER OUR TWICE

23:28 MONTHLY FREE IMMIGRATION

23:30 CONSULTATIONS.

23:31 UM AND WE ARE REALLY WORKING

23:33 HARD TO STRENGTHEN LEGAL

23:34 REFERRAL NETWORKS AND

23:35 PARTNERSHIPS SO THAT AS THE

23:36 COUNSELOR SAID, RIGHT, WE CAN

23:38 HAVE THESE WARM HANDOFFS.

23:39 WE CAN HELP TROUBLESHOOT AND

23:41 WORK CLOSELY ALONGSIDE OUR

23:42 LEGAL AID PROVIDERS TO MAKE

23:43 SURE THAT FOLKS WHO ARE

23:44 REACHING OUT TO OUR OFFICE GET

23:46 THE HELP THAT THEY NEED.

23:48 UM AND THEN LASTLY OTHER

23:49 SUPPORT.

23:50 SO UM, WHEN ONGOING LITIGATION

23:51 WAS HAPPENING AND EMPLOYERS

23:52 WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR

23:54 RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES.

23:56 WE HOSTED UM IN COLLABORATION

23:57 WITH THE STATE AND EMPLOYER

23:58 FOCUSED WEBINAR.

23:59 WE'RE ALSO EXPLORING

24:01 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A PATHWAY

24:02 FOR INCOME GENERATION.

24:03 UM WE PROVIDED TRAINING AND

24:05 GUIDANCE FOR CITY STAFF WHILE

24:06 LITIGATION WAS PENDING TO MAKE

24:08 SURE THAT OTHER DEPARTMENTS

24:09 WERE PROVIDING ACCURATE

24:10 INFORMATION AND COULD POINT UM

24:12 THEIR CONSTITUENTS TO ADEQUATE

24:14 RESOURCES.

24:14 AND THEN OF COURSE WE HAVE OUR

24:16 ONGOING CONSTITUENT SUPPORT.

24:17 UM, SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE THREE

24:18 HAITIAN CREOLE SPEAKERS ON

24:20 STAFF TO ENSURE THAT WE CAN

24:21 ANSWER UM AND HAVE THESE

24:23 CONVERSATIONS WITH FOLKS IN A

24:24 LANGUAGE THEY UNDERSTAND.

24:26 AND THEN OF COURSE WE HAVE OUR

24:27 WEAVING WILL BE MENTAL HEALTH

24:29 GRANTS THAT WILL BE COMING OUT

24:31 AS WELL IN EARLY NOVEMBER.

24:32 AGAIN WITH THE INTENTION

24:34 OF MAKING SURE THAT WE CAN UM,

24:36 SUPPORT OUR MOST VULNERABLE

24:38 RESIDENTS AND MAKING SURE THAT

24:39 THEY HAVE ACCESS TO CULTURALLY

24:41 RESPONSIVE, UM, MENTAL HEALTH

24:43 SUPPORTS.

24:45 UM I THINK THAT IS THE END

24:46 OF MY PRESENTATION FOR NOW BUT

24:48 HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS

24:49 THAT YOU ALL HAVE AND THANK YOU

24:51 FOR THE ADDITIONAL TIME.

24:52 THANK YOU.

24:53 THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

24:55 LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE SIX MINUTES.

24:58 UM THANK YOU.

24:59 COURTNEY FOR THAT PRESENTATION.

25:00 I'M JUST GOING TO CONTINUE TO

25:01 HIGHLIGHT THE WORK THAT WE NEED

25:03 TO CONTINUE TO DO WITH THE

25:04 OFFICE OF HOUSING STABILITY

25:04 AROUND THE ISSUES THAT YOU

25:05 MENTIONED AND BEEN HAVING CALLS

25:07 ON WHEN IT COMES TO WRAPPING

25:08 WHEN IT COMES ON BASE.

25:09 I WANT TO CONTINUE TO HIGHLIGHT

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

25:12 THERE AND I THINK EMILY CALLED

25:13 YOUR OFFICE TO TALK ABOUT THIS

25:15 BUT HOW WE CAN BE MORE EMBEDDED

25:17 EMBEDDED IN THE MENTAL HEALTH

25:18 WORK.

25:18 THERE ARE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

25:20 THAT ARE ALSO LEADING IN THE

25:21 WORK.

25:21 I KNOW UNITED WAY'S ALSO

25:22 PUTTING TOGETHER AND HAS ARE ON

25:24 CALLS UM EVERY OTHER WEEK

25:25 TALKING ABOUT THIS BUT REALLY

25:26 MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE PLUGGING

25:28 IN AND GETTING UM CONNECTING

25:30 WITH WITH FOLKS WHO NEED MENTAL

25:32 HEALTH SUPPORT.

25:33 I THINK THAT COULD PROBABLY BE

25:34 DONE UM, BETTER.

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

25:39 OF INSURANCE ISSUES THAT

25:40 PROVIDERS WHO WANT TO DO THE

25:42 GOOD WORK.

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

25:44 FUNDING MECHANISMS MECHANISMS

25:46 THERE.

25:47 I KNOW THAT AT ONE POINT THERE

25:48 WAS THE WEAVING WELL-BEING.

25:49 YES.

25:49 GRANTS ARE THOSE STILL UH BUT

25:52 ARE THOSE STILL HAPPENING IN

25:53 LIFE?

25:55 I GUESS.

25:56 OH, THERE WE GO.

25:57 THANK YOU.

25:57 COUNCILOR.

25:58 UM, SO THOSE ARE THE THE GRANTS

25:59 THAT I WAS MENTIONING.

26:00 THOSE ARE CURRENTLY OPEN FOR

26:02 APPLICATIONS THROUGH NEXT WEEK

26:03 .

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

26:05 TEAMS UM, THAT OUTREACH

26:07 MATERIAL IF THERE ARE FOLKS

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

26:09 I'M HAPPY TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS

26:10 WITH ORGANIZATIONS WHO MIGHT BE

26:12 INTERESTED IN APPLYING.

26:13 AND WHO CAN APPLY IN LIKE A

26:14 MENTAL HEALTH FOR EXAMPLE LIKE

26:16 CONSORTIUM CAN THEY APPLY FOR

26:18 IT?

26:18 SO OUR FOCUS IS ON.

26:19 NON-CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH.

26:21 UM JUST FEELING THAT REALLY

26:23 WHAT OUR OFFICE.

26:23 IS.

26:24 TRYING TO DO IS FILL THAT GAP

26:25 KNOWING THAT THERE IS EXISTING

26:26 FUNDING FOR REALLY CLINICAL

26:27 SUPPORT SO THAT.

26:28 FUNDING FROM UM.

26:30 PRIVATE AGENCIES.

26:31 SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING VERY

26:32 CLOSELY WITH UM FOR EXAMPLE

26:33 BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD WE'VE

26:35 BEEN REFERRING ORGANIZATIONS TO

26:37 THEM.

26:38 UM ONE OF THOUGH THAT IS ONE

26:40 OF THEIR PRIORITIES.

26:41 AND WE ALSO.

26:41 WORK REALLY CLOSELY WITH THE

26:42 UNITED WAY BOSTON FOUNDATION TO

26:44 MAKE SURE THAT THE FUNDING THAT

26:46 WE'RE DOING AT THE CITY IS

26:48 COMPLEMENTARY AND WE'RE NOT

26:49 OVERLAPPING.

26:49 SO THEY'RE REALLY FOCUSED ON

26:51 THE MUTUAL AID ASPECT.

26:52 AND SO OUR AREA OF FOCUS IS

26:53 REALLY THE MENTAL HEALTH AND

26:55 THE LEGAL AID.

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

26:57 YOU UM WITH WITH OUR CONTACTS

26:59 THERE AS WELL.

27:00 THANK YOU.

27:00 YEAH.

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

27:02 WE DID UM IN BACK IN FEBRUARY

27:04 MARCH WITH THE UNITE BRINGING

27:05 THE UNITED WAY TOGETHER WITH

27:06 THE BOSTON FOUNDATION TO MAKE

27:08 BECAUSE WE SAW THIS COMING DOWN

27:09 THE PIKE BUT THERE'S STILL NOT

27:11 ENOUGH INCOMING FUNDS EVEN FOR

27:13 THOSE LARGE INSTITUTIONS TO DO

27:14 ALL OF THIS WORK.

27:15 UM, I WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH

27:17 THE MENTAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM

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

27:21 GET THESE TEXT MESSAGES WHEN I

27:23 GET THAT DIRECT OUTREACH.

27:24 BUT THEY HAVE FUNDING ISSUES SO

27:26 THEY CAN PROBABLY TALK ABOUT

27:27 HOW TO SUPPORT THEM AS THEY'RE

27:30 AS THEY'RE SERVING A VERY

27:31 VULNERABLE POPULATION.

27:32 UM, I THINK THOSE ARE JUST THE

27:34 THINGS THAT I WANTED TO.

27:35 UPLIFT.

27:35 HOUSING, MENTAL HEALTH.

27:37 UH.

27:38 CONTINUED SUPPORT IN OUR

27:39 SCHOOLS BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT

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

27:41 EARLIER, WE CONTINUE TO LOSE,

27:42 UM, HAITIAN STUDENTS, UM, IN

27:45 OUR BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND

27:49 CONTINUED OUR WORK AND ADVOCACY

27:52 ALONGSIDE DOCTOR GABBARD JUST.

27:53 WALKED IN.

27:54 FOR SENATE BILL FOR 814.

27:56 UM, WE ARE ONLY THREE DEMOCRATS

27:59 SHY OF HAVING ALL DEMOCRATS UM

28:02 ON BOARD FOR THE BILL.

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

28:05 LOT OF PROGRESS IN THE LAST

28:07 MONTH.

28:07 UM, BUT I THINK THOSE ARE THE

28:09 JUST THE THINGS THAT I WANTED

28:10 TO CONTINUE UPLIFTING AND UM,

28:12 THE CONTINUING NEED FOR LEGAL

28:14 RESOURCES.

28:15 I WILL SAY HAS THERE BEEN

28:16 PROGRESS MADE ON THOSE EVERY

28:17 TWO CALLS?

28:17 ONE OF THE FEEDBACK THAT I'VE

28:18 KEPT PIECE OF FEEDBACK THAT

28:19 I'VE GIVEN IS LIKE HAVING THEM

28:21 IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES, UM, OR

28:23 HAVING TRANSLATORS.

28:24 IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE'RE

28:25 DOING ABLE TO DO LONGER PERIODS

28:28 OF TIME LIKE WHAT DOES THE

28:29 HANDOFF ARE THERE WARM HANDOFFS

28:31 FROM THERE?

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

28:34 IMMIGRATION CONSULTATIONS?

28:35 YES.

28:36 SO UM WE HAVE OUR ACCESS TO OUR

28:39 LANGUAGE LINE.

28:39 SO THOSE ARE THOSE HAVE ALWAYS

28:40 BEEN COMPLETELY UM UH

28:43 MULTILINGUAL.

28:44 SO WE DO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN

28:45 WE'RE CONNECTING WITH SOMEONE

28:46 THAT WE CONFIRM WHAT LANGUAGE

28:47 THEY WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH

28:48 THE ATTORNEY IN.

28:49 UM, WE HAVE TRIED REALLY HARD

28:50 TO GET MORE HAITIAN CREOLE

28:52 SPEAKERS AND, UM, WE WOULD LOVE

28:54 TO HELP BUILD UP THE PIPELINE

28:55 OF THOSE FOLKS.

28:56 SO IF YOU DO KNOW ANYONE THAT

28:57 IS INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING

28:59 BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THAT THAT

29:00 HELPS IN THAT EXCHANGE.

29:02 UM.

29:03 I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE OUR LIST

29:04 OF HAITIAN SPEAKS HAITIAN

29:06 CREOLE SPEAKING ATTORNEYS.

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

29:09 SEND YOU IF THERE MAY BE OR

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

29:12 ALSO TIME CONSUMING FOR THEM

29:13 BECAUSE THEY'RE ALSO THE PEOPLE

29:14 WHO I SEND EMERGENCY LEGAL

29:16 ISSUES TO IN ADDITION TO OTHER

29:18 ATTORNEYS.

29:18 SO IT JUST UH BUT I REMEMBER

29:19 PASTOR KIKI HIGHLIGHTING

29:21 LANGUAGE ISSUES AND THE AMOUNT

29:23 OF.

29:23 TIME YES, THE 15 MINUTES IS

29:25 REALLY SHORT AND UM, NEEDING TO

29:29 DO MORE WARM HANDOFFS AND I

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

29:32 THIS FOR EVERYONE RIGHT.

29:33 YESTERDAY WAS AN EXAMPLE LIKE

29:34 WE DEFINITELY WHEN IT COMES TO

29:35 LEGAL ISSUES NEED TO HOLD

29:37 PEOPLE'S HANDS SO THAT THEY

29:38 HAVE LEGAL REPRESENTATION.

29:41 LAST WEEK WE'RE IN A FIGHT

29:42 CALLING ALL SORTS OF ATTORNEYS

29:44 SOMEONE WAS THEY HAD TO APPEAL

29:46 THEIR CASE.

29:47 IT WAS A THEY CALLED THEIR

29:48 OFFICE ON A WEDNESDAY AND THAT

29:49 THURSDAY WAS THE DEADLINE FOR

29:50 THE APPEAL.

29:51 AND SO WE JUST NEED TO MAKE

29:53 SURE THAT WE'RE FINDING

29:54 SOLUTIONS.

29:55 SO NO I APPRECIATE THAT AND

29:56 THAT IS SOMETHING THAT OUR

29:57 LEGAL ACCESS UM PROJECT MANAGER

29:59 IS REALLY WORKING CLOSELY WITH

30:00 THE ATTORNEYS ON IS MAKING SURE

30:02 WE HAVE A GOOD UNDERSTANDING

30:03 OF WHAT SOMEONE'S NEXT STEPS

30:04 ARE AND HOW WE CAN KIND

30:06 OF GUIDE THEM IN THAT PROCESS.

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

30:09 CHALLENGING AS YOU SAID, RIGHT?

30:11 UM, THE SAME POOL WHO IS

30:13 PROVIDING THESE PRO-BONO

30:13 SERVICES IS ALSO PROVIDING UM

30:15 LEGAL AID.

30:17 UM BUT WE HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE

30:18 THAT WE HAVE SOME ATTORNEYS

30:19 THAT TYPICALLY GO A LITTLE BIT

30:20 LONGER.

30:21 UM, BUT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT

30:22 WE ARE TRYING TO EXPLORE AND

30:24 UNFORTUNATELY HAS BEEN A

30:25 CHALLENGE JUST BECAUSE OF THE

30:27 COMMITMENT.

30:27 UM, I DID ALSO JUST WANT TO

30:28 FLAG ON THE UM PART WE DO HAVE

30:31 BIWEEKLY CALLS WITH UM SENIOR

30:32 LEADERSHIP UM, INCLUDING.

30:35 FROM THE.

30:35 LEGAL TEAM UM THEIR SOCIAL WORK

30:37 DEPARTMENT POLICY AND SO ON AND

30:39 SO FORTH TO REALLY SEE HOW OUR

30:41 OFFICES CAN COMPLEMENT ONE

30:42 ANOTHER.

30:43 UM, SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT

30:45 IS CONTINUING UM, AND WE'RE

30:46 MAKING SURE THAT WE ELEVATE

30:48 CONCERNS ACROSS BOTH TEAMS.

30:51 UM AND THEN LASTLY WHEN WE DO

30:53 AWARD OUR MENTAL HEALTH GRANTS

30:55 WE ARE PLANNING TO CREATE KIND

30:56 OF A REFERRAL BASED SYSTEM, UM,

30:59 TO LET FOLKS KNOW WHAT

31:01 ORGANIZATIONS MIGHT BE OPEN FOR

31:02 REFERRALS.

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

31:04 WITH YOU ALL.

31:05 UM, ONCE THAT IS AVAILABLE

31:07 LATER THIS YEAR.

31:07 THANK YOU.

31:08 YEAH.

31:11 HERE, HERE.

31:13 YOU HAVE SIX MINUTES.

31:17 THANK YOU.

31:18 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

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

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

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

31:28 ,UM, I JUST HAVE A FEW

31:30 QUESTIONS.

31:30 I'M CURIOUS ABOUT HOW MANY

31:32 ORGANIZATIONS YOU KNOW, THROUGH

31:34 SOME OF THE GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

31:35 .

31:36 ARE WE FUNDING AND SUPPORTING?

31:40 UM, SO FOR THE LEGAL AID GRANT

31:41 I CAN GET YOU THE.

31:43 THE.

31:43 FINAL NUMBER FROM LAST YEAR BUT

31:45 I BELIEVE IT WAS AROUND 20 ISH

31:46 .

31:46 UM, AND THOSE ARE VARYING POTS

31:48 OF FUNDING.

31:49 SO WE WERE FUNDING UM

31:50 ORGANIZATIONS THAT WERE DOING

31:51 BOTH INFORMATION UM SHARING

31:53 LIKE KNOW YOUR RIGHTS COURT

31:55 ACCOMPANIMENT AS WELL AS

31:57 REPRESENTATION UM FOR LAST

31:59 YEAR'S UM WE EVEN WHILE BEING

32:00 MENTAL HEALTH WORKER IT WAS

32:01 AROUND 30.

32:02 ORGANIZATIONS AND WE.

32:04 ANTICIPATE WITH THE FUNDING

32:05 THAT WE HAVE WHICH IS ABOUT

32:07 EQUAL THAT WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO

32:08 FUND AROUND THE SAME AMOUNT.

32:10 OF ORGANIZATIONS THIS YEAR.

32:11 AND WHAT.

32:11 ABOUT SAFETY NET LIKE FOOD

32:14 ACCESS.

32:14 UH.

32:15 STIPENDS FOR HOUSING?

32:16 YEAH.

32:17 SO LAST YEAR WE DID HAVE OUR

32:19 ,UM, MUTUAL AID GRANTS.

32:21 UM.

32:22 AND.

32:22 THIS YEAR IN CONSULTATION WITH

32:24 ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE UNITED

32:25 WAY TBF THAT IS REALLY UM THE

32:28 WORK THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO

32:29 UPLIFT AND SO WE DECIDED TO

32:31 ENSURE THAT WE COULD REALLY

32:32 ROBUSTLY FUND THE LEGAL AID

32:34 WORK WHICH THEY ARE NOT UM,

32:36 ABLE TO FUND AT THIS TIME THE

32:37 MENTAL HEALTH WORK.

32:38 SO REALLY WORKING TOGETHER IN

32:40 PARTNERSHIP TO UM DETERMINE

32:42 WHERE THEIR FUNDING IS BEST

32:43 PLACE AND WHERE OUR FUNDING IS

32:44 BEST PLACED.

32:45 THAT'S GOOD.

32:46 AND WHAT ABOUT THE BOSTON

32:47 PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION?

32:49 THAT'S A CITY RESOURCE

32:53 ESPECIALLY AROUND MENTAL HEALTH

32:55 AND WELLNESS OR WHAT DOES THAT

32:56 LOOK LIKE IN TERMS

32:57 OF PARTNERSHIP?

32:57 YEAH.

32:58 SO I ACTUALLY UM OUR OFFICE

33:00 HAS A MONTHLY MEETING WITH

33:01 THEIR UM, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

33:03 DEPARTMENT.

33:04 UM, SOME FOLKS THAT ARE FOCUS

33:05 SPECIFICALLY ON UH, WORK IN THE

33:07 COMMUNITY.

33:08 UM, AND SO WE REGULARLY

33:10 COALESCE AROUND CONCERNS THAT

33:11 THEY'RE SEEING CONCERNS THAT

33:12 WE'RE SEEING UM, AND

33:14 BRAINSTORMING TOGETHER.

33:15 SO THEY ACTUALLY PUT TOGETHER A

33:17 RESOURCE GUIDE FOR US, UM, THAT

33:19 WE HAVE MADE AVAILABLE THAT

33:20 THEY HAVE MADE AVAILABLE AND

33:21 WE'RE WORKING WITH THEM THIS

33:22 YEAR AS A COMPLEMENT TO OUR

33:24 WEAVING WELL-BEING PROGRAM.

33:25 HOW CAN WE CONTINUE TO TRAIN UP

33:28 FOLKS, UM, SO THAT THEY CAN

33:30 ALSO DELIVER MENTAL HEALTH

33:31 SERVICES?

33:32 SO THAT'S KIND OF A SEPARATE

33:33 PROJECT ASIDE FROM GRANT

33:35 FUNDING THAT WE'RE PURSUING

33:36 WITH THEM.

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

33:42 ANY TYPE OF COMMUNICATION WITH

33:46 UM THE OFFICE OF WORKFORCE

33:47 DEVELOPMENT LIKE GIVEN THE FACT

33:49 THAT SO MANY FOLKS ARE LOSING

33:51 THEIR STATUS AND ARE ABLE TO

33:52 WORK.

33:53 WHAT IF ANY CONVERSATIONS HAVE

33:55 BEEN THAT YOU.

33:56 I'VE BEEN HAVING.

33:57 WITH OUR CITY ENFORCE

33:59 DEVELOPMENT?

34:00 YES.

34:00 SO UM.

34:01 THOSE ARE THAT'S UH, ANOTHER

34:02 ONE OF THE MAIN.

34:03 DEPARTMENTS THAT WE'VE BEEN

34:04 FOCUSED UM.

34:05 ON PARTNERING WITH PARTICULARLY

34:07 ON WORKERS RIGHTS.

34:08 SO AGAIN, I THINK OUR OFFICE

34:10 TAKES THIS STANDPOINT WE WANT

34:11 TO MAKE SURE THAT FOLKS KNOW

34:12 THEIR.

34:13 RIGHTS AND THEN ALSO HAVE

34:14 ACCESS TO RESOURCES.

34:15 SO REALLY CONNECTING WITH THE

34:16 WORKER EMPOWERMENT CABINET AND

34:18 MAKING SURE THAT WORKERS KNOW

34:19 THEIR RIGHTS, MAKING SURE THAT

34:21 EMPLOYERS KNOW THEIR RIGHTS AND

34:22 RESPONSIBILITIES.

34:23 UM AND.

34:24 THEN EXPLORING OPPORTUNITIES

34:25 SUCH AS ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS

34:26 PATHWAYS FOR FOLKS.

34:28 SO THOSE ARE ONGOING

34:29 CONVERSATIONS.

34:30 ME A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT

34:31 THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP BECAUSE I

34:32 KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THE

34:33 NEIGHBORHOODS JOBS TRUST WE'VE

34:35 BEEN ABLE TO BE CREATIVE IN

34:38 TERMS OF SOME WORKFORCE

34:39 DEVELOPMENT STIPENDS THAT WE'VE

34:40 BEEN ABLE TO PROVIDE TO FOLKS,

34:42 UM, AND PROGRAMING.

34:45 YEAH.

34:46 SO UM OUR OFFICE

34:47 UNFORTUNATELY.

34:47 CANNOT PROVIDE STIPENDS JUST

34:48 BECAUSE OF THE OPERATING BUDGET

34:50 FUND, BUT WE'RE TRYING TO

34:51 FIGURE OUT WAYS THAT WE CAN

34:53 PARTNER WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS

34:56 TO ENHANCE ACCESS AND AWARENESS

34:57 OF WORKER OWNED COOPERATIVES.

34:58 HOW CAN FOLKS BE WORKER OWNERS

35:01 ?

35:01 UM, SO THAT IS ANOTHER AREA

35:03 THAT WE'RE PARTNERING WITH BOTH

35:04 COMMUNITY AND DEPARTMENT ON.

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

35:09 UM JUST TWO MORE QUESTIONS.

35:11 YEAH, SURE.

35:12 ONE IS UH, SPECIFICALLY AROUND

35:14 THE RETURN ON THOSE INVESTMENTS

35:15 LIKE SOME OF THE ORGANIZATIONS

35:17 THAT YOU'VE BEEN WORKING WITH

35:18 YOU MENTIONED I THINK 30 OR SO,

35:20 UM, IN THE LEGAL SPACE AND AND

35:24 ALSO IN MENTAL HEALTH HIGH

35:26 LEVEL, YOU KNOW, WHAT TYPE

35:29 OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE,

35:30 CAPACITY BUILDING, ONGOING

35:31 COMMUNICATION DO YOU HAVE WITH

35:32 THESE ORGANIZATIONS?

35:35 AND WHEN YOU HEAR WHAT YOU WHAT

35:38 THEY HAVE TO SHARE, HOW ARE YOU

35:40 ADAPTING KIND OF YOUR SERVICE

35:42 DELIVERABLES AND RFP?

35:44 SURE.

35:45 UM SO FOR RETURN ON.

35:46 INVESTMENT, UM, WE'RE ACTUALLY

35:48 IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING THOSE

35:50 FINAL REPORTS FROM THIS PAST

35:51 FISCAL.

35:52 YEAR FROM THE ORGANIZATION.

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

35:55 YOU WITH, YOU KNOW, SOME MORE

35:56 HIGH LEVEL DETAILS.

35:57 ON WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.

35:59 UM.

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

36:01 REALLY CLOSELY WORK WITH OUR

36:03 ORGANIZATIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT

36:05 THEY UM, HAVE SUPPORT BOTH

36:06 THROUGH THE.

36:07 GRANT APPLICATION PROCESS.

36:08 UM, WE.

36:09 KNOW THAT A LOT OF OUR.

36:10 ORGANIZATIONS ARE.

36:11 NEWER OR MAYBE THEY DON'T HAVE

36:12 A UM A GRANT DEVELOPMENT PERSON

36:15 SO REALLY PROVIDING THAT

36:16 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.

36:16 SO THAT WAY.

36:17 WE'RE NOT OVERLOOKING REALLY.

36:19 STRONG APPLICATIONS JUST

36:20 BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THAT

36:21 THAT GRANT WRITING CAPACITY.

36:23 SO THAT'S ONE THING THAT WE

36:24 OFFER AT THE BEGINNING TO MAKE

36:25 SURE THAT FOLKS WHO ARE REALLY

36:27 GOOD FITS FOR THE APPLICATION

36:28 CAN ACTUALLY APPLY.

36:29 UM, AND THEN MYSELF AND MY

36:31 COLLEAGUE HANNAH HAVE

36:32 CONVERSATIONS WITH

36:33 ORGANIZATIONS.

36:34 TO KICK.

36:35 OFF THEIR THEIR GRANT

36:35 PERIOD.

36:36 SO MAKING SURE THAT THEY KNOW

36:37 THAT WE'RE HERE FOR THEM

36:39 THROUGHOUT THE GRANT PERIOD IF

36:40 THEY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.

36:42 UM AND THEN WE.

36:43 ALWAYS DO A RETROSPECTIVE.

36:44 SO I ACTUALLY MAYBE TWO MONTHS

36:46 AGO OR A MONTH AGO MET WITH THE

36:48 ORGANIZATIONS THAT RECEIVED

36:49 WELL-BEING FUNDING.

36:50 ASK THEM WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED?

36:52 WHAT COULD BE BETTER?

36:53 WHAT CAN WE IMPROVE?

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

36:56 FEEDBACK TO INFORM THIS

36:57 UPCOMING CYCLE OF THE GRANT.

36:59 AND WITH THAT INFORMATION.

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

37:03 INFORMATION IN MY OWN NOTES BUT

37:05 I WOULD SAY UM.

37:05 AND JUST IN TERMS OF.

37:06 WEAVING MORE BEANS IMPACTS ON.

37:08 OUR WEBSITE, UM.

37:10 WE RIGOROUSLY UH, EVALUATED THE

37:11 FIRST THREE YEARS OF THE

37:13 PROGRAM.

37:13 SO I'M.

37:13 PROUD TO SAY THIS IS THE

37:14 SIXTH YEAR UM.

37:15 AND YOU CAN FIND THE REPORTS

37:16 ABOUT THE COMMUNITY IMPACTS HOW

37:18 IT IMPACTED WELL-BEING,

37:20 BELONGING, COMMUNITY

37:21 EMPOWERMENT, JUST HAVING A

37:22 PLACE TO GO WHERE SOMEONE

37:23 SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE AND

37:24 UNDERSTANDS YOUR CULTURE.

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

37:26 THREE.

37:27 REPORTS AS WELL WITH YOU ALL.

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

37:30 AND YOU KNOW BECAUSE I'M GOING

37:31 TO HAVE TO BE LEAVING EARLY.

37:32 I JUST I WANTED TO JUST ALSO

37:34 NOTE THAT UM, PASTOR HAMA SO.

37:37 UH WE WORKED A FEW YEARS AGO ON

37:40 UH ON A WELLNESS PROGRAM FOR

37:42 RECENT ARRIVALS SPECIFICALLY TO

37:44 HELP YOUNG PEOPLE ACCLIMATE TO

37:46 THE CULTURE.

37:47 MANY OF THEM HAVE EXPERIENCED

37:48 TRAUMA JUST TO GET HERE.

37:50 AND SO IT'S REALLY HARD FOR

37:52 THEM TO ACCESS THE CURRICULUM

37:54 WHEN THEY HAVE SO MUCH GOING

37:55 ON.

37:55 AND SO THEY CREATED AN

37:57 AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM WHERE THEY

37:59 WERE ABLE TO UM, PROVIDE NOT

38:00 JUST ACADEMIC BUT ALSO

38:02 EMOTIONAL UM AND MENTAL

38:05 WELLBEING SUPPORT.

38:05 SO I THINK THAT THE

38:06 INTERSECTION IS THAT ESPECIALLY

38:07 WITH OUR BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS,

38:10 UM, IS SOMETHING THAT I'M

38:11 REALLY EXCITED AND INTERESTED

38:12 IN LEARNING MORE ABOUT AND I

38:13 JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU.

38:14 I'M NOT GOING TO HOLD ANYONE

38:15 HOSTAGE BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE

38:16 OTHER SPEAKERS BUT THANK YOU

38:17 FOR YOUR WORK.

38:18 THANK YOU.

38:19 COUNCILMEMBER HERE.

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

38:22 QUESTIONS OF THE 5790.

38:26 FOLKS AND.

38:28 WE KNOW THAT.

38:29 UH, AFFECTED.

38:31 BY THE TPS, WE KNOW HOW MANY

38:34 LOST THEIR ACTUAL STATUS.

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

38:39 IT IS.

38:40 CHALLENGING.

38:40 RIGHT, TO GET THAT

38:42 INFORMATION.

38:42 UM, JUST BECAUSE FOLKS MAY FEEL

38:44 UNCOMFORTABLE.

38:44 WITH.

38:45 YOU KNOW, PROVIDING THAT

38:46 INFORMATION, IT IS SOMETHING

38:47 THAT IS NOT TYPICALLY, UM,

38:49 TYPICALLY COLLECTED.

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

38:53 ANOTHER STATUS OR.

38:54 NO, UNFORTUNATELY.

38:56 WE DON'T.

38:56 BUT THAT IS WHY LEGAL

38:57 REPRESENTATION AND ACCESS TO

38:59 CONSULTATION IS SO IMPORTANT

39:00 AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT OUR.

39:02 OFFICE ALONG WITH, YOU KNOW,

39:04 COUNCILOR.

39:04 LOUIJEUNE OFFICE AND.

39:05 OTHER FOLKS WERE REALLY

39:06 MAKING SURE IN THE LEAD UP TO

39:08 THE POTENTIAL TERMINATION THAT

39:09 PEOPLE.

39:10 WERE.

39:10 HAVING ACCESS TO AN ATTORNEY TO

39:13 DETERMINE IF THERE WAS AN.

39:14 ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY.

39:15 FOR THEM.

39:15 AND I'VE HEARD OVER AND OVER

39:17 ABOUT.

39:17 THE LACK.

39:18 OF LEGAL COUNCILOR.

39:19 HAVE YOU TALKED IT OUT TO THE

39:21 BLACK.

39:21 WOMEN'S ATTORNEY TO SEE IF THEY

39:24 CAN HELP WITH.

39:25 THE PRO BONO SERVICE?

39:28 UM, WE HAVE NOT.

39:29 HAD THAT OPPORTUNITY BUT I

39:30 WOULD LOVE TO TO CONNECT WITH

39:30 YOU AND YOUR.

39:31 TEAM ABOUT THAT.

39:32 AS BLACK LAWYERS.

39:34 UH.

39:35 THAT MAY BE HELPFUL.

39:36 UH, AND.

39:37 AND WE CAN TALK AND I CAN MAKE

39:40 A.

39:40 CONTACT AND JUST SEE BECAUSE.

39:44 I THINK THEY MAY BE ABLE TO BE

39:45 HELPFUL.

39:47 YES, THAT WOULD.

39:48 BE WONDERFUL.

39:49 I THINK UM, IN OUR OFFICE IN

39:50 PARTICULAR WE ARE LOOKING FOR

39:52 FOLKS WITH.

39:52 UM IMMIGRATION EXPERIENCE BUT

39:54 THERE IS ALSO THE.

39:55 STATEWIDE HABEAS PROJECT.

39:56 UM, WHICH MAYBE SOME OTHER

39:58 FOLKS CAN TALK ABOUT WHERE

39:59 THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES.

40:01 UM.

40:01 FOR FOLKS WHO MAYBE DO NOT

40:02 HAVE THE IMMIGRATION.

40:04 EXPERIENCE TO ALSO CONTRIBUTE

40:06 TO THE LEGAL.

40:07 LANDSCAPE AND PREVENT.

40:08 FOLKS UM, FROM GETTING UH,

40:10 MOVED FROM ONE FACILITY, UM,

40:12 OUTSIDE OF THE STATE.

40:13 SO I THINK THERE ARE A FEW

40:15 OPPORTUNITIES FOR ATTORNEYS

40:16 OF ALL SHAPES AND ALL

40:17 EXPERIENCES TO GET.

40:18 PLUGGED IN TO THIS WORK.

40:19 I WOULD LOVE TO CONTINUE A

40:20 CONVERSATION.

40:21 YESTERDAY I WAS TALKING WITH

40:22 SOME FOLKS.

40:22 ABOUT THE NUMBER UH.

40:25 UM PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN DETAINED

40:27 OR ARRESTED THEY MENTIONED THE

40:29 NUMBER 40 CAME UP.

40:30 DO YOU HAVE ANY DATA ON THE

40:32 NUMBER.

40:33 OF FOLKS WHO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED

40:34 OR DETAINED.

40:36 AND IF NOT YOU CAN YES.

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

40:41 CERTAINLY TRY TO GET THAT

40:42 INFORMATION FOR YOU IF YOU HAVE

40:43 A.

40:44 SPECIFIC TIME PERIOD OR.

40:45 TIME FRAME THAT YOU'RE

40:46 LOOKING FOR THAT WOULD HELP US

40:48 KIND OF NARROW THAT.

40:49 DOWN SINCE THE SUPREME COURT

40:50 CASE.

40:50 SINCE THE CASE.

40:51 OKAY GREAT.

40:52 WE'RE HAPPY TO HAVE.

40:53 UM YEAH YEAH.

40:54 AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE THAT

40:56 INFORMATION.

40:57 UH.

40:58 ARE WE RECEIVING ANY

41:01 INFORMATION ABOUT THAT.

41:02 ICE ACTIVITY IN BOSTON?

41:04 UM, SO OUR OFFICE IS.

41:06 REALLY, UM, CONNECTED WITH A

41:08 LOT.

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

41:11 SO MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE

41:13 AWARE WHEN THERE ARE, UM, YOU

41:15 KNOW, WHEN THERE IS ICE

41:16 ACTIVITY, UM, LOCALLY WE ARE

41:19 SEEING PARTICULARLY AT OUR.

41:20 UH, COURTHOUSES UM.

41:21 PARTICULARLY IN.

41:22 EAST BOSTON.

41:22 SO THERE HAS.

41:23 BEEN A LOT OF WORK UM DONE

41:25 BY THE COMMUNITY THERE TO

41:26 SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

41:28 UM, WE'RE.

41:29 SEEING A LOT OF ACTIVITY

41:30 KIND OF IN THE SUBURBS AS WE

41:31 SAW THE OTHER.

41:32 DAY IN NEW BEDFORD AS WELL.

41:34 UM, PARTICULARLY SEEING IT UM.

41:36 IT AT OUR COURTHOUSES.

41:37 RIGHT.

41:37 SO DOES THE CITY.

41:38 HAVE SOME KIND OF MECHANISM

41:40 TO TRACK.

41:41 THE.

41:41 ARREST OR DETENTIONS IN PLACE?

41:44 UM, UNFORTUNATELY NOT AT THIS

41:45 TIME.

41:46 THAT INFORMATION CAN ALSO BE

41:47 REALLY CHALLENGING AND.

41:48 THAT'S WHY.

41:49 YOU.

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

41:50 PUT FORWARD THE EXECUTIVE ORDER

41:52 FOR TRANSPARENCY TO ENSURE THAT

41:55 WE COULD BE MAKING THESE BEST

41:57 EFFORTS TO GET THAT INFORMATION

41:58 FROM THE.

41:59 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

42:00 AND WHAT ARE THE BEST EFFORTS.

42:01 TO DATE?

42:02 UM, I CAN CERTAINLY GET

42:03 INFORMATION ON THAT.

42:04 THAT WOULD BE THE LEGAL

42:05 DEPARTMENT THAT HAS BEEN

42:07 FILING.

42:07 THESE FOI REQUESTS, BUT WE.

42:08 CAN CERTAINLY UM, CHECK.

42:10 IN.

42:10 WITH THEM IF.

42:11 THERE'S NOT.

42:11 SOME WAY OF TRACKING.

42:12 THE ARREST.

42:14 OR DETENTION.

42:15 COURTNEY, YOU MAY WANT TO THINK

42:16 ABOUT TRYING.

42:17 TO.

42:17 ESTABLISH SOME.

42:18 WAY OF TRYING TO TRACK.

42:20 THAT INFORMATION.

42:23 SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE.

42:24 SOME.

42:24 IDEA, UM, THE.

42:25 NUMBER OF FOLKS THAT ARE.

42:27 BEING ARRESTED OR DETAINED.

42:32 YES, I APPRECIATE THAT.

42:34 UM THANK YOU.

42:35 THANK AND SO.

42:38 IN JULY.

42:39 27TH.

42:40 JULY 27TH THE PRESENTATION.

42:44 UM, IDENTIFIES HOUSING.

42:45 AND SECURITY.

42:46 BENEFITS IN.

42:48 ROOM.

42:48 EDUCATION DISRUPTIONS.

42:49 FAMILY SUPPORT.

42:51 SCAMS INCREASE ACTIVITY.

42:52 DO WE HAVE ANY DATA OR

42:54 INFORMATION.

42:55 ON WHAT THE CITY IS SEEING WITH

42:57 REGARD TO THESE FINDINGS?

43:01 UM WE DON'T HAVE ANY.

43:02 SPECIFIC DATA.

43:03 IT'S MORE.

43:05 ANECDOTAL FROM WHAT WE'RE

43:05 HEARING VIA CONSTITUENTS

43:07 REACHING OUT TO OUR.

43:08 UP TO OUR OFFICE TO.

43:09 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE OFFICE TO

43:10 OTHER DEPARTMENTS WHO ARE THEN

43:12 REFERRING THEIR CONSTITUENTS TO

43:14 US.

43:14 BECAUSE OUR OFFICE.

43:15 IS SO WELL KNOWN FOR OUR

43:18 IMMIGRATION CONSULTATIONS.

43:19 THAT IS PRIMARILY MOST OF THE

43:21 REQUESTS THAT WE SEE.

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

43:24 MORRONE AND FOLKS.

43:25 ON THE PANEL CAN SPEAK MORE TO

43:27 THE NUMBERS OF WHAT THEY'RE

43:28 SEEING ON THE FRONT LINES.

43:30 UM, BUT WE.

43:30 ARE SEEING A VAST PERCENTAGE

43:32 OF OUR FOLKS REALLY IN NEED

43:34 OF LEGAL.

43:35 REPRESENTATION.

43:36 UM, THAT CONSULTATION TO

43:37 DETERMINE WHAT ALTERNATIVE

43:38 PATHWAYS TO STATUS THEY MIGHT

43:40 HAVE AND THEN THAT

43:42 REPRESENTATION POTENTIALLY IN

43:43 AN ASYLUM HEARING IN FRONT OF A

43:45 JUDGE, UM.

43:46 AND SO.

43:46 ON AND SO FORTH.

43:47 SO I WOULD SAY.

43:49 ABOUT 25% OF THE CALLS.

43:50 THAT WE'VE BEEN RECEIVING

43:52 RECENTLY HAVE BEEN SPECIFICALLY

43:54 FROM UH, HAITIAN TPS HOLDERS.

43:56 AND THAT'S WHY.

43:57 WE'VE BEEN REALLY TRYING TO

43:59 STRENGTHEN OUR REFERRAL NETWORK

44:00 .

44:01 SO THAT WAY WE CAN MAKE SURE

44:02 WHEN SOMEBODY WAS CALLING US

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

44:06 FROM.

44:06 HAITI, I HAVE TPS, WE KNOW

44:08 EXACTLY WHERE TO.

44:09 REFER THEM TO AND DO THAT.

44:11 WARM HANDOFF.

44:11 DO YOU HAVE THE NUMBER AND DATA

44:13 ON HOW MANY PEOPLE THE TWICE

44:16 MONTHLY.

44:17 CONSULTATIONS ACTUALLY SERVE?

44:20 YES WE CAN CERTAINLY.

44:20 GET THAT INFORMATION TO YOU.

44:22 I'D SAY WE SERVE.

44:24 PROBABLY FROM 35 TO.

44:27 40.

44:27 INDIVIDUALS.

44:28 UM EVERY TIME.

44:30 WE DON'T NECESSARILY.

44:31 DIG IN AND ALWAYS.

44:33 ASK PEOPLE.

44:34 WHICH COUNTRY ARE YOU FROM?

44:35 RIGHT.

44:36 UM WE TRY TO KEEP A SEMBLANCE

44:38 OF CONFIDENTIALITY THERE.

44:39 UM, SO I CAN SAY THAT ON

44:41 AVERAGE WE SUPPORT AROUND 35 TO

44:43 40 FOLKS.

44:44 PER CONSULTATION.

44:45 COMPARED WITH DEMAND.

44:47 THERE'S ALWAYS.

44:48 GOING TO BE MORE MORE DEMAND

44:49 THAN UNFORTUNATELY THERE IS

44:51 SPACE.

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

44:53 KNOW, THROUGH OUR.

44:54 IMMIGRATION UM, OUR IMMIGRATION

44:56 .

44:56 GRANT, WE'RE MAKING SURE THAT

44:57 WE'RE PROVIDING GRANT FUNDING

44:58 FOR ALL THESE DIFFERENT ASPECTS

45:00 .

45:01 SO HOW DO WE SUPPORT

45:02 ORGANIZATIONS.

45:02 THAT ARE.

45:03 DOING KNOW YOUR RIGHTS

45:04 CAMPAIGNS.

45:05 FAMILY PREPAREDNESS

45:05 CAMPAIGNS?

45:06 HOW ARE WE SUPPORTING

45:07 ORGANIZATIONS TO MEET THAT NEED

45:09 .

45:09 FOR CONSULTATIONS?

45:11 AND THEN THE.

45:12 THIRD BUCKET OF REPRESENTATION

45:14 .

45:14 AND WHAT ABOUT WAIT TIMES.

45:18 UH WAIT.

45:18 TIMES FOR.

45:19 CONSULTATIONS OR WAIT.

45:21 TIMES FOR.

45:22 SEEKING LEGAL ASSISTANCE?

45:25 I THINK IT CAN VARY DEPENDING

45:26 ON THE TYPE OF.

45:27 ASSISTANCE THAT SOMEONE.

45:28 IS.

45:29 LOOKING FOR.

45:29 UM, AS COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE SAID

45:31 THAT THE HOTLINE UM CURRENTLY

45:33 HAS A SIX.

45:33 MONTH.

45:34 WAITLIST FOR REALLY.

45:35 URGENT UM.

45:37 LIKE DEPORTATION TYPE CASES.

45:39 OUR CONSULTATIONS UM.

45:41 WE DO HAVE A LOT OF.

45:43 UH ROOM.

45:44 TYPICALLY SO PLEASE FEEL FREE

45:45 TO CONNECT WITH US DIRECTLY IF

45:47 THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE

45:48 IN NEED OF A CONSULTATION.

45:49 UM, AND THEN WE WORK CLOSELY

45:51 WITH OTHER PROVIDERS TO MAKE

45:52 SURE THAT UM AGAIN, WE CAN TRY

45:55 TO SUPPORT PEOPLE WITH A DIRECT

45:56 REFERRAL.

45:57 BUT IT.

45:58 IS CHALLENGING.

45:59 AND IN.

45:59 YOUR PRESENTATION YOU TALKED

46:00 A LITTLE.

46:01 BIT.

46:01 A LITTLE BIT.

46:01 ABOUT HOUSING INSECURITY AND

46:03 HOW MANY FAMILIES ARE WE AWARE

46:06 OF THAT HAVE.

46:06 ALREADY LOST HOUSING OR

46:10 RETURNED TO SHELTER AS A RESULT

46:11 OF.

46:12 LOSING THEIR TPS?

46:14 WE WE DON'T HAVE THAT EXACT

46:15 NUMBER.

46:15 UM.

46:16 BECAUSE AGAIN I THINK.

46:17 THE STATUS PIECE CAN BE A

46:19 LITTLE BIT COMPLICATED AND

46:20 FOLKS.

46:21 ARE EXPERIENCING HOUSING

46:23 INSECURITY FOR MANY DIFFERENT

46:24 REASONS.

46:24 UM.

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

46:27 STATE HAS.

46:27 THAT NUMBER.

46:28 UM BUT THAT IS SOMETHING YEAH

46:29 I.

46:29 DIDN'T THINK SO.

46:31 BY THAT WAY.

46:31 YES.

46:32 EXACTLY WHAT AND WHAT

46:35 HAPPENS ONCE A FOREIGN TPS.

46:37 HOLDER LOSES THEIR EMPLOYMENT?

46:40 WHAT HAPPENS HOW.

46:41 DO.

46:42 WE SERVICE.

46:42 THEM WITH LET'S SAY THEY.

46:45 HAVE A RENT ISSUE.

46:45 HOW DO WE.

46:46 SERVICE THEM?

46:47 DO WE SEND.

46:48 THEM RIGHT TO HOUSING.

46:49 SO OUR OFFICE HAS BEEN.

46:50 PARTNERING WITH THE OFFICE OF.

46:51 HOUSING TO MAKE SURE THAT

46:53 FIRST.

46:53 AND FOREMOST.

46:54 THAT.

46:54 THE PROCESS.

46:55 THAT THE LANDLORD IS

46:56 FOLLOWING IS.

46:57 ACCURATE AND LEGAL.

46:59 UM AND SO THAT IS THE FIRST

47:00 STEP OF THE PROCESS FOR US

47:01 MAKING SURE THAT SOMEONE IS.

47:02 ACTUALLY UM LEGALLY BEING

47:04 EVICTED AND THEN WE ARE TRYING

47:06 TO WORK REALLY CLOSELY WITH THE

47:07 STATE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE

47:08 REDUCING ANY OF THOSE BARRIERS

47:11 TO REENTRY INTO THE SHELTER

47:12 SYSTEM.

47:13 AND THAT.

47:14 THOSE SUPPORTS ARE EXISTING

47:15 FOR FOLKS.

47:15 AND WHAT IF THEY'RE NO

47:16 LONGER ELIGIBLE.

47:17 FOR THE SAFETY NET PROGRAM?

47:19 UM, ARE YOU REFERRING TO

47:21 HOUSING?

47:22 YES.

47:23 SO YEAH.

47:23 SO WE ARE UM FORTUNATELY, UM.

47:26 MANY OF OUR HAITIAN COMMUNITY

47:27 MEMBERS ARE STILL ELIGIBLE AS.

47:29 CUBAN HAITIAN ENTRANTS AND.

47:31 ARE ELIGIBLE TO ACCESS.

47:32 DIFFERENT TYPES OF BENEFITS.

47:33 SO THAT IS WHY WE'RE MAKING

47:34 SURE WITH THE STATE THAT THERE

47:36 IS A PATHWAY FOR.

47:38 REENTRY INTO.

47:38 THE SHELTER.

47:39 SYSTEM AND THEN THAT

47:40 SUPPORTIVE.

47:41 SYSTEM FOR THEM.

47:42 SO WHAT ARE YOU SPECIFICALLY

47:43 ASKING.

47:43 THE.

47:44 STATE TO MAKE SURE THAT.

47:45 THEY HAVE A GOOD UM,

47:47 UNDERSTANDING OF THE.

47:48 CHALLENGES THAT OUR.

47:50 COMMUNITY MEMBERS MIGHT BE

47:51 FACING AT THIS TIME AND MAKING

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

47:55 STAFFING TO SUPPORT THEM THAT

47:57 UM, THERE IS NOT UH, BURDENSOME

48:00 PAPERWORK FOR REENTRY AND THAT

48:02 THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THOSE

48:04 CHALLENGES THAT FOLKS MIGHT BE

48:05 FACING AND THAT WE HAVE AN

48:06 ADEQUATE.

48:06 SHELTER SYSTEM TO SUPPORT THESE

48:08 FAMILIES.

48:08 AND SO HAVE WE.

48:09 BEEN GIVEN ADDITIONAL

48:10 RESOURCES FROM THE

48:11 COMMONWEALTH.

48:12 AS A RESULT OF.

48:13 THE CONVERSATIONS.

48:14 AND THE REAL NEED.

48:17 ?

48:17 NOT TO MY UNDERSTANDING.

48:18 THAT COULD.

48:19 BE A QUESTION POTENTIALLY

48:20 FOR THE OFFICE.

48:21 OF HOUSING UM.

48:21 THAT THOSE.

48:22 RESOURCES WOULD NOT.

48:23 HAVE COME TO OUR.

48:24 OFFICE REGARDLESS.

48:25 CAN YOU CHECK.

48:26 WITH SHEILA DILLON.

48:28 AND JUST SEE EXACTLY NUMBER ONE

48:32 WHAT.

48:33 RESOURCES ARE.

48:34 NEEDED AND NUMBER TWO, IF

48:36 THEY'RE GETTING ADDITIONAL.

48:37 RESOURCES FROM THE STATE.

48:39 FOR HOUSING.

48:40 RIGHT.

48:42 THANK YOU.

48:44 AND I THINK THAT'S.

48:46 ALL THE QUESTIONS I HAVE.

48:48 THANK YOU.

48:49 THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

48:51 UH SO WEATHER.

48:53 OH GOOD MORNING COUNCIL WEBER

48:54 I.

48:55 LIKE TO.

48:55 ACKNOWLEDGE THE PRESENCE

48:56 OF COUNCIL.

48:57 WHEREVER I DID NOT.

48:58 SEE YOU.

49:00 I STILL I GAVE.

49:01 THE COUNCIL SIX MINUTES.

49:03 FOR AN OPENING STATEMENT.

49:04 COUNCIL HERE.

49:06 UH, THOUGHT IT SHOULD BE TWO

49:07 MINUTES.

49:07 I'LL GIVE YOU TWO MINUTES.

49:10 FOR OPENING STATEMENT AND IF

49:11 YOU WANT.

49:11 WITH QUESTIONS PLEASE.

49:16 AND IF YOU WANT.

49:17 SIX MINUTES FOR QUESTION.

49:19 YOU CAN.

49:19 HAVE SIX MINUTES FOR

49:20 QUESTIONS.

49:20 NO YOU.

49:22 THANK YOU VERY MUCH CHAIR AND.

49:24 I AM BEING AWFULLY LIBERAL

49:25 TO YOU.

49:26 OH YEAH AND.

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

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

49:30 UH, NEXT IF RULES ARE REVERSED.

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

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

49:41 SURE SOMEBODY ASKED US ALREADY

49:43 JUST YOU KNOW, WHAT'S YOUR

49:44 ADVICE FOR US WHEN WE GET A

49:46 CALL?

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

49:49 FAMILY FROM SOMEBODY WHO'S YOU

49:52 JUST WHO KNOWS SOMEBODY I LIVE

49:55 .

49:55 LIKE.

49:56 YOU KNOW, HOW WOULD YOU

49:57 GIVEN YOUR, YOU KNOW, UH,

50:01 EXPERIENCE AND WHAT YOU'RE

50:02 SEEING ACROSS THE CITY IN THE

50:03 COUNTRY.

50:04 WHAT SHOULD WE DO WHEN WE GET

50:06 THAT PHONE CALL FROM EITHER

50:08 SOMEBODY WHO'S LOST THEIR

50:09 STATUS OR OR SOMEBODY WHO JUST

50:11 HAPPENS TO KNOW SOMEBODY WHO

50:13 DID?

50:14 UM, YEAH.

50:16 UM.

50:17 SO OUR OFFICE, UM, HAS THREE

50:19 HAITIAN.

50:20 CREOLE SPEAKERS ON STAFF

50:21 SPECIFICALLY DEDICATED TO OUR

50:23 CONSTITUENT.

50:23 SERVICES WORK.

50:24 UM, WE ALSO HAVE.

50:26 FOUR ADDITIONAL FOLKS MYSELF

50:28 INCLUDED THAT.

50:29 SPEAK.

50:29 SPANISH AND.

50:30 SO WE'RE ALWAYS ABLE TO.

50:31 PICK UP THE.

50:32 PHONE.

50:33 COME MEET SOMEONE IN PERSON

50:34 ,HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS.

50:36 I WAS JUST TROUBLESHOOTING UM,

50:38 SOMEONE'S CASE YESTERDAY WHERE

50:39 UNFORTUNATELY THEY WENT TO

50:41 BURLINGTON FOR THEIR CHECK IN

50:42 AND THEY WERE DETAINED.

50:43 SO OUR OFFICE IS ALWAYS

50:45 AVAILABLE.

50:46 FOR CONSULTATION.

50:47 UM, I KNOW WE HAD A REALLY

50:48 LOVELY CONVERSATION A FEW

50:50 MONTHS AGO WITH STAFF FROM YOUR

50:52 TEAMS.

50:52 UM.

50:53 AROUND THOSE BEST.

50:53 PRACTICES IN THOSE SUPPORTS.

50:55 SO I.

50:56 AM UH OUR TEAM.

50:57 IS WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO

50:58 HAVE THAT.

50:58 CONVERSATION AGAIN.

50:59 TO HELP YOU ALL YOU KNOW

51:00 REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW TO.

51:02 TRIAGE MAYBE THE CASE.

51:03 AND THEN REFER IT OVER TO.

51:04 US FOR FURTHER SUPPORT.

51:05 UM, AND THEN I GUESS WHAT SO

51:09 WHAT CAN WE TELL PEOPLE TO

51:10 EXPECT SO THEY WILL REFER THEM

51:12 TO YOU AND THEN UH, I GUESS

51:15 LIKE WHAT ARE THIS KIND

51:18 OF THINGS IN PLACE?

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

51:22 YOU KNOW, I MEAN WHAT CAN

51:25 PEOPLE EXPECT TO HAPPEN ONCE

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

51:28 THROUGH YOUR OFFICE?

51:29 YEAH.

51:30 SO WE REALLY TRIED TO UM,

51:32 BOTH PROVIDE SOME HOPE BUT ALSO

51:34 SET REALISTIC.

51:35 EXPECTATIONS UM, FOR.

51:36 INDIVIDUALS AND SO WE DO UM WE

51:39 DO TRY.

51:40 TO TRIAGE CASES AND.

51:41 HAVE.

51:41 A.

51:41 REALLY GOOD UNDERSTANDING

51:42 OF OKAY WHAT IS WHAT SUPPORT DO

51:44 YOU NEED AT THIS TIME WHAT

51:45 OTHER SUPPORTS YOU MAY BE NOT

51:46 THINKING ABOUT THAT YOU ALSO

51:48 NEED.

51:48 HELP.

51:48 WITH AND SO PRIMARILY YOU KNOW

51:50 OUR OFFICE REALLY UM DOES MORE

51:54 UH SPECIFIC SERVICES AROUND

51:55 LEGAL.

51:56 UM CASES.

51:57 SO MAKING SURE THAT FOLKS ARE

51:58 CONNECTED TO ADEQUATE.

51:59 LEGAL SUPPORT UM AND THEN.

52:01 ALSO IF IT IS AN ISSUE

52:02 AROUND HOUSING WE HAVE REALLY

52:04 WONDERFUL CONTACTS UM AT THE

52:05 OFFICE OF HOUSING THAT WE CAN

52:07 UM.

52:07 REFER FOLKS TO WARMLY.

52:09 SO WE ALWAYS.

52:10 TRY TO HANDHOLD THE CASE A

52:11 LITTLE BIT BECAUSE WE.

52:12 KNOW THAT THESE ARE REALLY

52:13 SENSITIVE CONVERSATIONS.

52:14 AND.

52:14 CHALLENGING TIMES.

52:15 UM.

52:16 SO YOU KNOW.

52:17 WE DO WE DO THAT TRIAGE ON THAT

52:19 ASSESSMENT AND THEN DETERMINE

52:20 WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE.

52:21 TO TO SUPPORT.

52:22 THEM WHETHER THAT'S OUR.

52:23 OFFICE.

52:24 AN EXTERNAL PARTNER UM OR

52:25 ANOTHER CITY DEPARTMENT OKAY.

52:28 AND THEN I GUESS UH IN TERMS

52:31 OF.

52:32 SORT OF.

52:33 PLANNING I MY SENSE IS

52:35 THERE'S SOME ASPECT OF THIS

52:37 PLAN PLANNING FOR THE THE WORST

52:41 UH AND YOU KNOW SO WHAT SHOULD

52:43 PEOPLE BE DOING TO PREPARE IF

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

52:48 GOING TO BE DEPORTED OR YOU

52:49 KNOW, DETAINED, WHAT DO YOU

52:51 RECOMMEND WE.

52:52 TELL PEOPLE?

52:53 YEAH.

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

52:56 PART OF OUR WORK IS THAT.

52:57 PREPAREDNESS PIECE.

52:59 MAKING SURE, UM, FAMILIES.

53:01 FEEL EQUIPPED TO HAVE THAT

53:03 CONVERSATION WITH THEIR LOVED

53:04 ONES, THEIR CHILDREN.

53:05 AND MAKING A PLAN AND ALSO

53:07 ENSURING THAT THEY KNOW THEIR.

53:08 RIGHTS UM, AND ALSO MAKING SURE

53:10 THAT THEY'VE CONNECTED.

53:10 WITH AN ATTORNEY TO EXPLORE

53:12 ALL AVAILABLE OPTIONS.

53:13 SO THESE ARE THOSE ARE

53:14 REALLY THE THREE.

53:14 THINGS THAT WE DO.

53:15 RECOMMEND FOLKS AS.

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

53:17 THIS JOURNEY MAKING SURE.

53:19 HAVE YOU.

53:19 TALKED TO AN ATTORNEY YET?

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

53:22 UP WITH A CONSULTATION.

53:23 HAVE YOU DO YOU KNOW YOUR

53:24 RIGHTS?

53:25 HERE'S A.

53:25 RED CARD.

53:26 HERE'S A.

53:26 FLIER FROM MOYA.

53:28 UM, I WAS SAYING BEFORE THAT WE

53:29 HAVE, UH, MULTILINGUAL KNOW

53:31 YOUR RIGHTS.

53:31 RESOURCES ON.

53:32 OUR WEBSITE AND WE'RE HAPPY

53:33 TO SHARE PRINTED MATERIALS.

53:35 WITH YOUR TEAM AS WELL TO

53:36 GIVE OUT TO FOLKS.

53:37 UM.

53:37 AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE UM,

53:39 FAMILY PLANNING DOCUMENTS.

53:41 SO UM, DECIDING.

53:43 IS A DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO HAVE

53:44 A GUARDIAN.

53:45 FOR YOUR CHILD?

53:46 DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO HAVE A

53:47 CAREGIVER.

53:47 FOR YOUR CHILD?

53:48 UM, AND THEN REFERRING FOLKS.

53:50 TO.

53:50 THOSE ORGANIZATIONS WHO CAN

53:51 HELP THEM NOTARIZE, COMPLETE

53:53 AND FILL OUT THOSE DOCUMENTS.

53:54 SO REALLY JUST.

53:55 HAVING A PLAN IN PLACE.

53:57 AND THEN YEAH, I GUESS SO JUST

53:58 FOR THE FAMILY PLANNING ISSUE

54:00 BECAUSE THAT'S SORT

54:02 OF UNFORTUNATE.

54:03 I THINK YOU KNOW PEOPLE HAVE TO

54:05 PREPARE AND THAT'S ONE OF THE

54:06 THINGS TO MAKE SURE YOUR KIDS

54:08 ARE TAKING CARE OF AND UM DO

54:11 YOU NEED AN ATTORNEY FOR THAT

54:13 TO OR DOES YOUR OFFICE DO THAT

54:14 ?

54:15 WHO TAKES CARE OF THE

54:17 COMPLAINT?

54:18 UH, WE DO NOT PROVIDE THAT

54:19 SERVICE IN OUR OFFICE.

54:21 UM, YOU CAN HAVE.

54:22 UM WE.

54:23 GENERALLY RECOMMEND THAT FOLKS,

54:24 DEPENDING ON WHICH LEVEL OF.

54:27 AUTHORIZATION THEY MAY NEED AN

54:28 ATTORNEY.

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

54:30 FAMILY.

54:30 COURT, FOR EXAMPLE.

54:31 UM, BUT WE CONNECT TO UM

54:34 INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE SEEKING

54:35 THAT TO HARVARD.

54:37 THEY HAVE.

54:37 A LEGAL AID CLINIC THAT'S

54:38 SUPPORTING WITH THIS.

54:39 UM, AS WELL AS ONE OF OUR

54:40 PARTNERS ATHENS.

54:41 YEAH.

54:41 ALPHA AND UM, IN OUR.

54:43 IMMIGRATION LEGAL.

54:44 ACCESS GRANT UM, THAT WE ARE UM

54:46 I WAS MENTIONING WHAT SHOULD

54:47 HOPEFULLY BE OUT TO THE

54:49 COMMUNITY.

54:49 THE FUNDING I SHOULD.

54:51 SAY SHOULD.

54:51 BE OUT TO THE.

54:52 COMMUNITY IN NOVEMBER.

54:52 THAT IS ALSO ONE OF THE

54:54 COMPONENTS.

54:54 SO MAKING SURE THAT OUR

54:56 ORGANIZATIONS WHO ARE DOING

54:57 THAT PREPAREDNESS WORK.

54:58 ALSO HAVE FUNDING.

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

55:00 ONE OF ADDITIONAL REFERRAL

55:02 LOCATIONS ONCE THE FUNDING

55:04 DECISIONS HAVE BEEN MADE.

55:05 OKAY.

55:06 UM YEAH.

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

55:11 BEEN TELLING PEOPLE IS LIKE

55:12 THERE'S RE SCREENING FOR OTHER

55:16 UH, YOU KNOW, AVENUES FOR SUE

55:19 STATUS ESSENTIALLY UH BECAUSE

55:21 SOMEBODY MIGHT HAVE ANOTHER

55:22 CLUE.

55:22 EXACTLY.

55:23 AND THEN FAMILY PLANNING IS

55:25 THAT SO AM I MISSING ANYTHING?

55:27 UM AND I WOULD MAKE SURE THAT

55:29 FOLKS KNOW THEIR RIGHTS.

55:30 RIGHT.

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

55:32 WERE TO ENCOUNTER ICE.

55:33 UM, OUR OFFICE HAS LOTS OF RED

55:35 CARDS.

55:36 PLEASE COME, YOU KNOW, SEND

55:37 YOUR TEAM UP.

55:38 WE'RE HAPPY TO GIVE YOU COPIES

55:39 OF THOSE.

55:39 UM, AND WE ALSO HAVE SOME MORE

55:41 PRINTED MATERIALS THAT WE ARE

55:42 WORKING ON DISSEMINATING IN THE

55:43 COMING WEEKS.

55:44 OKAY.

55:45 UM OKAY.

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

55:48 STRUCTURE OF THE HEARINGS OR DO

55:50 I SEE MORONI UP THERE?

55:53 UH THERE ARE.

55:55 YEAH.

55:55 YEAH, I MISS A MENTOR.

55:57 WANTED TO MAKE SURE HE GOT.

56:00 UH.

56:01 THE FIRST SPOT ON THE PANEL.

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

56:03 SECOND PANEL AS SOON AS YOU

56:05 FINISH.

56:05 NO, NO.

56:05 IT'S GOOD.

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

56:07 OF PARTNERSHIP.

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

56:10 MR MENTOR.

56:10 YOU KNOW I DO.

56:11 OKAY.

56:12 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

56:13 UH, CHAIR, I HOPEFULLY TOOK

56:15 LESS THAN THE SIX MINUTES AND

56:17 WE CAN, YOU KNOW, REMINISCE ON

56:19 THAT NEXT TIME THE RULES ARE

56:21 REVERSED.

56:21 SO THIS ONE THING, COURTNEY,

56:23 CAN YOU SEND OUT SOME OF THOSE

56:24 RED CARDS?

56:26 I GUESS WE CAN CERTAINLY YES.

56:27 WE'RE IN THE PROCESS

56:28 OF ACTUALLY REORDERING A TON

56:29 OF THEM.

56:30 SO UM, PLEASE I CAN CONNECT

56:31 WITH YOUR TEAMS TO DETERMINE

56:33 WHICH LANGUAGES MIGHT BE THE

56:35 MOST SUPPORTIVE.

56:35 THANK YOU.

56:37 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE HAS.

56:38 SOME FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS.

56:39 THANK YOU.

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

56:42 COURTNEY FOR UPLIFTING THE NAME

56:44 OF PIERRE THOMAS BELL AND FOR

56:46 UM, REALLY CENTERING HOW

56:48 IMPORTANT MENTAL HEALTH IS IN

56:49 THIS MOMENT.

56:50 UM, IT REMINDED ME OF A HUGE

56:53 TRAGEDY THAT WE HAD IN MARCH

56:55 THE PASSING OF EMMANUEL DIMAS,

56:57 UM, WHO WAS ARRESTED BY ICE

56:59 RIGHT HERE IN DORCHESTER AND

57:02 DIED OF A TOOTHACHE IN UM,

57:04 ARIZONA.

57:06 I'M WONDERING IF WE ARE SEEING

57:07 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENS

57:09 WHEN SOMEONE IS DETAINED BY ICE

57:11 IS THAT THEY NEED TO GET AN

57:13 ATTORNEY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE,

57:15 BUT ALSO THEY NEED TO MAKE SURE

57:17 THAT THAT'S AN ATTORNEY WHO HAS

57:18 EXPERIENCE NOT ONLY IN THE

57:20 IMMIGRATION WORLD BUT THE

57:21 CRIMINAL WORLD.

57:22 WE CAN UNDERSTAND OR TRY TO

57:24 STRATEGIZE ABOUT WHAT MAKES THE

57:26 MOST SENSE.

57:27 UM, ARE WE SEEING ATTORNEYS

57:30 THAT HAVE THAT NEXUS

57:33 OF CRIMINAL AND IMMIGRATION

57:34 EXPERIENCE TO PROPERLY GIVE

57:37 GUIDANCE TO PEOPLE WHO NEED IT?

57:40 OUR OFFICE DOES HAVE UM, ONE

57:42 ATTORNEY ACTUALLY WHO DOES

57:43 VOLUNTEER WITH US THAT HAS THAT

57:46 PARTICULAR EXPERTISE AND WE ARE

57:47 FOREVER GRATEFUL THAT SHE

57:48 CONTINUES TO VOLUNTEER WITH US

57:50 BECAUSE IT IS UM, A REAL

57:51 CHALLENGE UM, JUST BECAUSE

57:54 OF THE WAY THE FEDERAL

57:55 GOVERNMENT DETERMINES WHAT A

57:56 CRIMINAL CHARGES VERSUS AT THE

57:57 LOCAL LEVEL.

57:58 UM, SO WE WE HAVE SPECIFICALLY

58:01 BEEN SEEKING MORE ATTORNEYS FOR

58:03 OUR CONSULTATIONS THAT HAVE

58:04 THAT NEXUS.

58:05 UM, AND SO IF THERE ARE OTHER

58:06 INDIVIDUALS WE WOULD LOVE TO

58:08 GET CONNECTED TO THEM.

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

58:13 HAVE A REALLY GOOD RELATIONSHIP

58:14 FOR WITH CPCS THE CENTER FOR

58:16 PUBLIC COMMITTEE SERVICES I

58:18 THINK UM AND SO WE WE TRY TO

58:21 WORK WITH THEM REALLY CLOSELY

58:23 TO ENSURE THAT UM, THE

58:24 IMMIGRATION SERVICES AND THE

58:26 CRIMINAL UM LEGAL SERVICES ARE

58:28 REALLY WELL COMBINED THERE.

58:30 THANK YOU.

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

58:34 OFFSHOOTS TO THIS WORK AND SO

58:35 SOMETIMES THINGS GET LOST.

58:36 I REMEMBER ONE OF THE THINGS

58:37 THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WAS

58:40 UM, CONNECTING WITH LAW

58:41 SCHOOLS.

58:42 I KNOW FOR EXAMPLE, MY ALMA

58:43 MATER HARVARD, THEY HAVE UH,

58:46 IMMIGRATION CLINIC IT'S AN

58:47 IMMIGRATION REFUGEE CLINIC.

58:48 BCC I BELIEVE ALSO HAS A CLINIC

58:50 .

58:51 HOW HAVE WE BEEN TAPPING INTO

58:52 THOSE CLINICS TO ALSO BE

58:54 OF ASSISTANCE OR WHERE ARE THEY

58:55 IN TERMS OF FEELING LIKE THEY

58:56 CAN SUPPORT THIS WORK?

58:57 YEAH.

58:58 SO WE ARE ACTUALLY IN PRIME

59:00 SEASON FOR THOSE RECONNECTIONS

59:02 SOMETIMES THE SUMMER TO BE

59:04 HONEST CAN BE REALLY

59:05 CHALLENGING BECAUSE THERE

59:06 AREN'T AS MANY STUDENTS TO TAKE

59:07 ON THESE CASES.

59:08 UM WE HAVE FUNDED SOME OTHER

59:10 ORGANIZATIONS IN THE PAST.

59:12 UM THERE'S THE STUDENT CLIMATE

59:13 CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE

59:15 THAT DOES A BIT OF ORGANIZING

59:16 AND ASYLUM APPLICATION

59:19 ASSISTANCE.

59:19 UM, BUT IT CAN BE CHALLENGING,

59:21 RIGHT?

59:22 BECAUSE THE ASYLUM CASES TAKE

59:24 SO LONG AND YOU KNOW, OFTEN

59:26 THERE'S ONE TWO STUDENTS FOR

59:28 ONE CASE.

59:29 UM, AND SO I THINK THINKING

59:30 ABOUT THOSE STRATEGIES, HOW DO

59:32 WE CONTINUE TO INVEST IN

59:34 INVESTING IN LIKE THE GROWTH

59:35 AND THE FUTURE OF ATTORNEYS

59:36 THAT WANT TO GO INTO THAT

59:38 REALLY CHALLENGING FIELD

59:40 OF IMMIGRATION?

59:40 RIGHT.

59:41 UH, WE'RE.

59:42 SEEING MORE OF AN IDEA THAN

59:43 WE ARE SEEING PEOPLE GOING.

59:44 EXACTLY.

59:45 YEAH.

59:45 AND SO OUR OFFICE IS ALSO

59:46 TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WAYS THAT

59:48 WE CAN PROMOTE DOJ

59:50 ACCREDITATION AS WELL.

59:51 AND SO THAT IS ANOTHER YES,

59:52 ANOTHER.

59:53 SOMETHING IFC'S DOING AS WELL.

59:54 EXACTLY.

59:55 UM SO HOW CAN WE SUPPORT

59:57 MORE ORGANIZATIONS TO DO THAT

59:58 WORK BECAUSE THEY'RE ALSO

59:59 REALLY WELL CULTURALLY PLACED

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

1:00:02 COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

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

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

1:00:06 GRATEFUL TO THE MIRA COALITION

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

1:00:09 OF WORK THAT THEY'RE

1:00:10 SUPPORTING.

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

1:00:12 LEADING ON THE WORK OF MAKING

1:00:13 SURE THAT OUR OUR LAW SCHOOLS

1:00:15 ARE INTEGRATED INTO SORT

1:00:17 OF THIS POT ENVIRONMENT

1:00:19 OF MAKING SURE WE HAVE LAWYERS

1:00:20 FOR FOLKS WHO NEED THEM OR

1:00:22 LEGAL ACCESS.

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

1:00:25 IN ON THAT CHARGE.

1:00:26 I WOULD SAY PARTNERING WITH THE

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

1:00:29 THROUGH THEIR PROJECT.

1:00:30 THAT SUZANNE.

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

1:00:33 IT.

1:00:33 YES.

1:00:33 UM THEY'RE WORKING REALLY

1:00:35 CLOSELY ON THE ICE CAP PROJECT

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

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

1:00:40 OF ANY CONSTITUENTS THAT UM,

1:00:43 MAYBE WERE HURT WHEN THEY WERE

1:00:44 DETAINED OR THEY HAD THEIR

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

1:00:47 BELIEVE THEY'RE PARTNERING WITH

1:00:49 SUFFOLK THIS UPCOMING YEAR ON

1:00:51 THAT PROJECT AND WE'RE

1:00:52 PREVIOUSLY PARTNERING WITH

1:00:53 NORTHEASTERN.

1:00:54 THANK YOU.

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

1:00:57 COOPERATIVE WORK OR THE

1:00:58 CONVERSATIONS AROUND

1:00:59 COOPERATIVES?

1:01:00 YES, YES OKAY.

1:01:01 JUST WANTED TO UM MAKE SURE

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

1:01:05 IMPORTANT COMPONENT TO SORT

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

1:01:07 ALL OF THE THINGS THAT ARE

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

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

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

1:01:14 THIS AND MAYBE MORRONE WILL

1:01:15 SPEAK TO THIS TOO.

1:01:17 UM.

1:01:17 YOU KNOW.

1:01:19 DURING TRUMP 1.0 WE HAD THE

1:01:22 LEGAL UM DEFENSE FUNDS.

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

1:01:27 WERE STEPPING UP TO PROVIDE

1:01:29 SUPPORT.

1:01:30 HOW WAS THAT ENGAGEMENT LOOKED

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

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

1:01:37 AGAIN EVERYTHING HAS BEEN

1:01:38 DIFFERENT THAN THERE HAVE BEEN.

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

1:01:41 BUT WHO IS ALSO OWNING THAT

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

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

1:01:48 CASES PRO BONO.

1:01:49 YEAH.

1:01:50 SO I WOULD SAY UM WE

1:01:51 TYPICALLY REACH OUT TO THE PRO

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

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

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

1:01:58 IMMIGRATION CONSULTATIONS AND

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

1:02:01 OUR COMMUNITY BASED

1:02:02 ORGANIZATIONS HAVE BEEN LEADING

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

1:02:06 CASES BUT EVEN THOSE EVEN THE

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

1:02:11 BONO EVEN FULL PAYMENT UM,

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

1:02:15 PRIVATE LEVEL AS WELL.

1:02:16 YEAH.

1:02:17 BECAUSE I.

1:02:17 I'D LIKE.

1:02:18 TO MOVE ON TO THE COMMUNITY

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

1:02:22 SURE, SURE.

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

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

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

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

1:02:30 ATTORNEYS INVOLVED.

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

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

1:02:34 WE NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT

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

1:02:36 GET LAWYERS INVOLVED IN LEGAL

1:02:39 ASSISTANCE.

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

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

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

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

1:02:46 A LOT OF IT IS ABOUT

1:02:47 COORDINATION.

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

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

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

1:02:53 OF THESE BIG LAW FIRMS ALSO

1:02:55 HAVE IMMIGRATION LAWYERS WHO

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

1:02:59 DOING EMPLOYMENT BASED

1:03:00 IMMIGRATION WORK BUT SHOULD

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

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

1:03:06 SHOULD ENCOURAGE THEM TO DO

1:03:07 THAT.

1:03:07 WE SHOULD HAVE A LAWYER A

1:03:08 LETTER IF NEEDED SIGNED BY THE

1:03:10 MAYOR, SIGNED BY MYSELF.

1:03:12 SOMEBODY ELSE NEEDS TO TO

1:03:13 ENCOURAGE THESE LAW FIRMS THAT

1:03:14 MAKE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO

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

1:03:19 THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

1:03:22 COULD I JUST TEXT THE.

1:03:24 PRESIDENT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS

1:03:25 BLACK LAWYERS?

1:03:26 THANK YOU.

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

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

1:03:30 INFORMATION AFTER THE

1:03:31 HEARING.

1:03:31 I APPRECIATE.

1:03:32 THAT AND CONTACT HER

1:03:33 DIRECTLY.

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

1:03:35 BLACK LAWYERS.

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

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

1:03:39 THEY WILL BE WILLING TO.

1:03:40 HELP WHEN ARE ABLE.

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

1:03:44 LEAST THE MASS BLACK BODIES

1:03:45 HAVE SAID THAT.

1:03:46 YEAH.

1:03:46 AND I THINK THE MORE PEOPLE

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

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

1:03:50 BUT MAYBE THEY KNOW SOMEONE IN

1:03:51 THEIR NETWORK THAT THEY CAN

1:03:53 PULL ON FOR THAT SUPPORT.

1:03:54 THANK YOU COURTNEY YOU HAVE A

1:03:56 LAST ANY FINAL?

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

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

1:04:02 AGAIN FOR THIS HEARING THANKFUL

1:04:03 THANK YOU FOR YOUR YOUR

1:04:05 CONVERSATION AND YOUR

1:04:05 QUESTIONS.

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

1:04:08 FOR OUR OFFICE IN THIS

1:04:10 DIRECTION AND WE'RE GRATEFUL

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

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

1:04:15 WORKING TOGETHER ON THIS ISSUE

1:04:16 TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE

1:04:18 SUPPORTING OUR NOT JUST OUR

1:04:20 HAITIAN COMMUNITY MEMBERS BUT

1:04:21 ALL OF OUR IMMIGRANT RESIDENTS

1:04:22 REALLY HOLISTICALLY.

1:04:24 UM, SO LOOKING FORWARD TO

1:04:25 CONTINUING IN THAT WORK WITH

1:04:26 YOU ALL.

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

1:04:27 THANK YOU.

1:04:28 THIS TIME.

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

1:04:33 TODAY'S COMMUNITY PANEL.

1:04:35 I SEE MR MENTORS ALREADY THERE

1:04:37 .

1:04:38 UH, BRIAN CONCANNON.

1:04:41 AND DOCTOR GUILBAULT.

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

1:04:47 ABOUT THAT SMILE.

1:04:49 YOU'RE ALWAYS SMILING.

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

1:04:55 GREAT.

1:05:05 COURTNEY, THANK YOU.

1:05:06 SO MUCH AND.

1:05:07 BE IN TOUCH WITH ME.

1:05:08 YES ABOUT THAT INFORMATION FROM

1:05:11 THE MASS PIKE LAWYERS.

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

1:05:21 THANK YOU.

1:05:22 SO MUCH.

1:05:22 UH.

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

1:05:26 SIX MINUTES, MISTER MENTOR,

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

1:05:28 QUITE.

1:05:29 A WHILE.

1:05:30 WHY DON'T WE.

1:05:30 START OFF WITH TWO?

1:05:32 ALL RIGHT.

1:05:33 THANK YOU.

1:05:34 UM.

1:05:34 THANK YOU.

1:05:34 UH, COUNCILOR CULPEPPER THANK

1:05:36 YOU, COUNCILOR MEJIA,

1:05:38 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE, UM, AND

1:05:41 COUNCILOR WEBER.

1:05:41 FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO

1:05:42 TESTIFY.

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

1:05:45 MENTOR.

1:05:45 I'M THE.

1:05:46 POLITICAL DIRECTOR WITH THE

1:05:47 MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND

1:05:48 REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION.

1:05:50 MIA FOR SHORT.

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

1:05:54 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LIZ SWEET

1:05:56 UM, TESTIFIED BEFORE.

1:05:57 YOU TWO MONTHS AGO.

1:05:59 ABOUT WHAT WE FEARED WOULD

1:06:01 HAPPEN IF TEMPORARY PROTECTED

1:06:02 STATUS FOR HAITIANS WAS

1:06:05 TERMINATED.

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

1:06:08 TEST TESTIMONY FOCUSED ON.

1:06:10 WHAT COULD HAPPEN PEOPLE

1:06:12 LOSING THEIR JOBS.

1:06:12 FAMILIES FACING.

1:06:13 HOUSING INSTABILITY.

1:06:15 UH, AN INCREASED DEMAND.

1:06:16 FOR LEGAL.

1:06:17 SERVICES, GREATER PRESSURE ON

1:06:19 OUR SOCIAL SERVICE

1:06:20 INFRASTRUCTURE.

1:06:21 UH, AND THE POSSIBILITY

1:06:23 OF INCREASED IMMIGRATION.

1:06:24 ENFORCEMENT.

1:06:25 TODAY I WANT TO TALK ABOUT

1:06:27 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THOSE

1:06:28 CONCERNS BECOME REALITY.

1:06:30 THE TERMINATION OF TPS HAS NOT

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

1:06:35 A CHANGE IN IMMIGRATION.

1:06:36 STATUS FOR MANY HAITIAN

1:06:38 RESIDENTS IN BOSTON.

1:06:39 IT HAS CREATED.

1:06:41 A CHAIN OF REACTION

1:06:42 AFFECTING EMPLOYMENT, HOUSING,

1:06:45 FAMILY STABILITY.

1:06:46 ACCESS TO LEGAL SERVICES.

1:06:48 AND THEIR SENSE OF SAFETY.

1:06:50 AND SECURITY.

1:06:51 AND I WANT TO EMPHASIZE

1:06:53 SOMETHING THAT IS SOMETIMES

1:06:55 LOST IN.

1:06:55 DISCUSSIONS ABOUT IMMIGRATION

1:06:57 STATUS.

1:06:57 AND THAT IS THAT.

1:06:59 THESE ARE OUR NEIGHBORS.

1:07:01 AND I SHOULD MENTION THAT

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

1:07:03 GABON MYSELF.

1:07:05 UM, AND IMMIGRANTS ARE PARENTS

1:07:08 TAKING.

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

1:07:10 THEY ARE HEALTH WORKERS.

1:07:12 HOME HEALTH AIDE.

1:07:13 SHOCKER WORKERS, CONSTRUCTION

1:07:15 WORKERS, RESTAURANT WORKERS,

1:07:17 BUSINESS.

1:07:17 OWNERS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

1:07:20 THEY HAVE BUILT LIVES HERE.

1:07:22 THEY PAY TAXES.

1:07:23 THEY PAY RENT.

1:07:24 THEY CARE FOR THEIR.

1:07:25 FAMILIES AND CONTRIBUTE.

1:07:27 TO THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD THEY

1:07:28 CALL HOME.

1:07:29 FOR MANY TPS.

1:07:30 PROVIDER UH TPS PROVIDED.

1:07:33 A LEGAL.

1:07:34 ABILITY TO WORK.

1:07:35 AND REMAIN IN THE UNITED.

1:07:36 STATES WITH HAITI.

1:07:37 CONTINUED TO FACE EXTRAORDINARY

1:07:40 CONDITION.

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

1:07:45 COALITION OF NONPROFIT.

1:07:46 ORGANIZATION, STATE.

1:07:47 PARTNERS AND VOLUNTEER.

1:07:48 ATTORNEYS CAME.

1:07:49 TOGETHER TO HELP MORE THAN.

1:07:51 4000 HAITIAN MEN, WOMEN AND

1:07:54 CHILDREN.

1:07:54 APPLY FOR TPS.

1:07:56 WE DID THAT BECAUSE WE KNEW

1:07:58 THAT TPS COULD MEAN WELL WHAT

1:08:01 TPS COULD.

1:08:01 MEAN FOR FAMILY.

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

1:08:05 ABILITY TO PLAN FOR FUTURE.

1:08:06 THE ABILITY.

1:08:07 TO.

1:08:08 CONTRIBUTE OPENLY ECONOMICALLY

1:08:09 .

1:08:10 TO OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY MANY

1:08:13 OF THOSE SAME INDIVIDUALS ARE

1:08:15 ONCE AGAIN TRYING TO NAVIGATE.

1:08:17 A VERY COMPLICATED SYSTEM.

1:08:19 WE ARE SEEING.

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

1:08:23 FOR IMMIGRATION.

1:08:23 LEGAL ASSISTANCE AS.

1:08:25 PEOPLE TRY.

1:08:26 TO UNDERSTAND WHAT OPTIONS

1:08:27 IF ANY REMAIN AVAILABLE TO.

1:08:29 THEM AND TO THE LEGAL.

1:08:31 SERVICES SYSTEM WAS ALREADY

1:08:33 STRETCHED THIN.

1:08:34 LEGAL PROVIDERS.

1:08:36 ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS ARE

1:08:37 WORKING TO SCREEN FORMER TPS

1:08:40 HOLDERS TO DETERMINE.

1:08:41 WHETHER THEY MAY.

1:08:42 QUALIFY FOR ASYLUM.

1:08:43 OR ANOTHER FORM OF IMMIGRATION

1:08:45 RELIEF AND HELP FAMILIES

1:08:47 UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR OPTIONS

1:08:48 ARE.

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

1:08:50 THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH ATTORNEYS.

1:08:53 AND RESOURCES TO MEET.

1:08:54 THE MOMENT AND WE HAVE

1:08:55 HEARD.

1:08:55 THAT ALREADY.

1:08:56 AND EVEN WHEN SOMEONE UH MAY

1:08:59 HAVE ANOTHER POTENTIAL

1:09:01 IMMIGRATION OPTION, THERE IS

1:09:02 OFTEN A.

1:09:02 GAP BETWEEN LOSING TPS BASED

1:09:05 WORK AUTHORIZATION.

1:09:06 AND OBTAINING.

1:09:08 AUTHORIZATION THROUGH ANOTHER

1:09:09 PROCESS.

1:09:10 THAT GAP ACTUALLY.

1:09:11 MATTERS A PERSON.

1:09:13 CAN HAVE A PENDING.

1:09:15 IMMIGRATION CASE AND.

1:09:16 STILL BE UNABLE TO.

1:09:17 WORK LEGALLY.

1:09:19 A PARENT CAN STILL HAVE

1:09:21 MORTGAGE.

1:09:21 OR RENT PAYMENT, CHILDCARE.

1:09:23 COSTS, GROCERIES,

1:09:24 TRANSPORTATION.

1:09:25 EXPENSES AND MEDICAL BILLS EVEN

1:09:27 WHEN THEIR ABILITY.

1:09:28 TO EARN PAYCHECKS HAS SUDDENLY

1:09:30 DISAPPEARED.

1:09:32 THAT IS.

1:09:33 WHERE IMMIGRATION.

1:09:33 POLICY BECOMES HOUSING POLICY.

1:09:36 IT BECOMES A.

1:09:37 WORKFORCE ISSUE.

1:09:38 IT BECOMES A.

1:09:39 PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE, A FAMILY

1:09:41 STABILITY ISSUE.

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

1:09:45 WE ARE PARTICULARLY.

1:09:46 CONCERNED ABOUT EMPLOYMENT

1:09:48 BECAUSE WHEN SOMEONE LOSES.

1:09:50 TPS BASED WORK AUTHORIZATION.

1:09:52 ,THE CONSEQUENCES DO NOT STOP

1:09:54 WITH.

1:09:55 THE WORKER OR THE FAMILY.

1:09:57 EMPLOYERS LOSE EXPERIENCED

1:09:58 EMPLOYEES.

1:09:59 FAMILY FAMILIES LOSE INCOME.

1:10:01 BUSINESSES LOSE WORKERS.

1:10:03 THEY HAVE.

1:10:04 INVESTED IN AND COMMUNITIES

1:10:07 LOSE ECONOMIC STABILITY.

1:10:09 WORKERS ARE SUDDENLY.

1:10:11 PLACED IN VULNERABLE SITUATION

1:10:12 MAY ALSO.

1:10:13 BE AT GREATER RISK OF.

1:10:15 UH WAGE THEFT, RETALIATION.

1:10:18 DISCRIMINATION OR EVEN

1:10:20 EXPLOITATION.

1:10:20 THAT IS WHY WORKER PROTECTIONS.

1:10:23 AND OUTREACH MUST.

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

1:10:26 WE ALSO.

1:10:27 NEED TO RECOGNIZE THE

1:10:28 ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF CONFUSION

1:10:29 AND FEAR.

1:10:31 THAT EXISTS IN IMMIGRANT

1:10:33 COMMUNITIES.

1:10:34 PEOPLE ARE ASKING VERY BASIC

1:10:36 QUESTIONS.

1:10:36 CAN I STILL WORK?

1:10:38 CAN I KEEP.

1:10:39 MY PARENTS IN MY APARTMENT?

1:10:40 WHAT HAPPENS TO MY CHILDREN?

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

1:10:45 STOPPED BY IMMIGRATION?

1:10:46 DO I.

1:10:47 QUALIFY FOR ANOTHER FORM

1:10:48 OF IMMIGRATION RELIEF?

1:10:49 WHERE CAN I FIND THEM?

1:10:50 ATTORNEY WHO CAN.

1:10:52 I TRUST.

1:10:54 FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS NEVER HAD

1:10:57 TO NAVIGATE THE IMMIGRATION.

1:10:58 SYSTEM BEFORE, THESE QUESTIONS

1:11:00 CAN BE.

1:11:01 OVERWHELMING AND FOR.

1:11:03 HAITIAN FAMILIES.

1:11:03 LANGUAGE ACCESS AND TRUSTED.

1:11:05 COMMUNITY BASED.

1:11:06 OUTREACH ARE PARTICULARLY

1:11:09 IMPORTANT.

1:11:10 WE BELIEVE BOSTON.

1:11:11 CAN PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE.

1:11:12 IN MEETING AND MEETING THIS

1:11:14 MOMENT.

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

1:11:19 IN IMMIGRATION.

1:11:19 LEGAL SERVICES.

1:11:21 WE NEED ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

1:11:22 FOR ORGANIZATIONS.

1:11:23 PROVIDING IMMIGRATION CONSULT

1:11:25 CONSULTATION.

1:11:26 LEGAL SCREENINGS, APPLICATIONS,

1:11:28 REPRESENTATION.

1:11:29 AND REFERRALS.

1:11:30 FOR FORMER.

1:11:31 TPS HOLDERS.

1:11:33 I WOULD.

1:11:34 SAY THAT.

1:11:34 THROUGH THE MASSACHUSETTS

1:11:35 ACCESS.

1:11:36 TO COUNCILOR INITIATIVE.

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

1:11:39 SERVED.

1:11:40 OVER 180 HAITIAN INDIVIDUALS

1:11:43 AND CURRENTLY WE.

1:11:44 HAVE 308 CASES.

1:11:46 ON A.

1:11:47 WAITING LIST.

1:11:49 SECOND, BOSTON.

1:11:50 SHOULD STRENGTHEN ITS

1:11:51 INVESTMENT IN COMMUNITY BASED

1:11:53 OUTREACH AND KNOW YOUR.

1:11:54 RIGHTS EDUCATION.

1:11:56 INFORMATION NEEDS.

1:11:57 TO REACH PEOPLE WHERE THEY

1:11:58 ARE THROUGH HAITIAN LED

1:11:59 ORGANIZATIONS CHURCHES.

1:12:02 UM SCHOOLS, HEALTH.

1:12:03 CENTERS, EMPLOYERS.

1:12:04 AND OTHER TRUSTED

1:12:05 INSTITUTION.

1:12:06 AND IT NEEDS TO BE AVAILABLE

1:12:08 AND THE LANGUAGES PEOPLE

1:12:10 UNDERSTAND.

1:12:12 THIRD, THE CITY SHOULD

1:12:13 STRENGTHEN WORKER.

1:12:14 PROTECTION OUTREACH.

1:12:15 FORMER TPS.

1:12:17 HOLDERS NEED TO KNOW.

1:12:18 THEIR RIGHTS AND THE WORKPLACE

1:12:19 .

1:12:19 AND WHERE TO REPORT.

1:12:21 A WAGE THEFT, RETALIATION.

1:12:23 OR DISCRIMINATION.

1:12:25 IN FOURTH.

1:12:27 BOSTON SHOULD PREPARE FOR A

1:12:28 BROADER.

1:12:29 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL.

1:12:30 CONSEQUENCES OF THE LOSS

1:12:33 OF TPS.

1:12:34 THIS INCLUDES CONNECTING

1:12:35 AFFECTED.

1:12:36 FAMILIES TO HOUSING ASSISTANCE,

1:12:37 FOOD RESOURCES, CHILDCARE,

1:12:39 HEALTH CARE OR THE AVAILABLE

1:12:41 SERVICES BEFORE A CRISIS.

1:12:42 BECOMES AN EMERGENCY.

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

1:12:46 CONTINUE TO USE ITS VOICE TO

1:12:48 ADVOCATE FOR LONG TERM FEDERAL

1:12:50 SOLUTION.

1:12:51 BOSTON HAS ALREADY MADE.

1:12:52 CLEAR THAT IT SUPPORTS TPS

1:12:53 HOLDERS.

1:12:54 THE CITY ADOPTED A RESOLUTION

1:12:56 REAFFIRMING THEIR.

1:12:57 SUPPORT FOLLOWING THE SUPREME

1:12:58 COURT'S DECISION.

1:12:59 UM BACK IN.

1:13:00 JUNE THAT.

1:13:02 LEADERSHIP MATTERS.

1:13:04 BUT TODAY WE ARE ASKING THE

1:13:06 CITY.

1:13:07 TO COMBINE THAT ADVOCACY AND

1:13:09 INVESTMENT.

1:13:10 BECAUSE THE FAMILIES AFFECTED

1:13:12 BY THE.

1:13:12 TERMINATION OF TPS ARE.

1:13:14 NOT JUST A STATISTIC THEY ARE

1:13:16 BOSTON RESIDENTS.

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

1:13:19 NEIGHBORS.

1:13:20 THEY ARE.

1:13:21 MY.

1:13:21 SONS TEAMMATES CLASSMATES.

1:13:23 THEY ARE OUR CAREGIVERS, OUR

1:13:25 HEALTH CARE WORKERS, OUR SMALL

1:13:27 BUSINESS OWNERS.

1:13:28 AND OUR.

1:13:29 FRIENDS.

1:13:31 MIRA AND OUR PARTNERS.

1:13:32 ARE COMMITTED TO CONTINUING TO.

1:13:33 STAND WITH.

1:13:34 HAITIAN COMMUNITY.

1:13:35 BUT COMMUNITY.

1:13:37 ORGANIZATIONS CANNOT.

1:13:38 DO THIS ALONE.

1:13:40 WE NEED THE CITY.

1:13:41 OF BOSTON TO MAKE SURE THAT

1:13:42 FAMILIES WHO.

1:13:43 ARE LOSING IMMIGRATION STATUS

1:13:44 DO NOT LOSE THEIR JOBS.

1:13:46 THEIR HOMES.

1:13:47 THEIR ACCESS TO LEGAL

1:13:49 REPRESENTATION OR THEIR SENSE

1:13:51 OF THE CITY.

1:13:53 THAT STANDS WITH THEM.

1:13:54 THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY

1:13:56 TO TESTIFY.

1:13:57 AND I LOOK FORWARD.

1:13:58 TO WE LOOK FORWARD TO

1:13:59 WORKING WITH THIS COUNCIL.

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

1:14:02 ALL OF YOU FOR LISTENING TO

1:14:03 ME.

1:14:04 THANK YOU MR.

1:14:07 SMITH.

1:14:08 DOCTOR BELL.

1:14:09 YOU HAVE SIX MINUTES.

1:14:11 THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

1:14:12 GOOD MORNING.

1:14:13 EVERYONE AND.

1:14:14 THANK YOU FOR THIS

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

1:14:17 TODAY UH TO TESTIFY ABOUT

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

1:14:21 COMMUNITY.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1:14:35 CALL HER A COMBATANT.

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

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

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

1:14:45 RESPOND TO THE MANY CALLS THAT

1:14:47 WE ARE RECEIVING CONNECTING US

1:14:48 TO ALL OF THE RESOURCES AND

1:14:50 REALLY CHAMPIONING YOU KNOW,

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

1:14:53 ARE LEADING AROUND AND THANK

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

1:14:58 PANEL TODAY.

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

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

1:15:03 WITH YPSI IMMIGRANT FAMILY

1:15:05 SERVICES INSTITUTE AND I AM

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

1:15:10 ABOUT IMMIGRATION POLICY BUT

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

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

1:15:15 WE MEET EVERY DAY WITH FAMILIES

1:15:18 .

1:15:18 WE MEET WITH PEOPLE.

1:15:19 WE MEET WITH PARENTS WHO HAVE

1:15:21 CHILDREN, WITH WORKERS, WITH

1:15:23 MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY WHO

1:15:25 ARE LITERALLY LIVING WITH AN

1:15:28 EXTRAORDINARY LEVEL OF FEAR AND

1:15:30 ANXIETY EVERY DAY.

1:15:32 AND YOU HEARD THIS WEEK WHAT

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

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

1:15:38 REALLY HAPPENED TO NEW BEDFORD

1:15:40 .

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

1:15:43 WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY EVEN

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

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

1:15:49 RECEIVING SO MANY PHONE CALLS

1:15:51 ABOUT.

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

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

1:15:55 ARE IN DORCHESTER.

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

1:15:58 ELSE.

1:15:59 SO AGAIN IT IS WHENEVER THESE

1:16:01 THINGS HAPPEN THIS SENT THIS

1:16:03 SHOCK WAVES TO THE ENTIRE

1:16:05 COMMUNITY WHO IS ALREADY LIVING

1:16:07 IN FEAR.

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

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

1:16:11 WE KNOW THAT WE ARE ALWAYS

1:16:13 TALKING ABOUT NUMBERS AND

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

1:16:16 YOU KNOW, THEY GO BEYOND

1:16:18 NUMBERS.

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

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

1:16:24 WHAT?

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

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

1:16:28 ,BUT IT FEELS THAT TO

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

1:16:33 OF ME.

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

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

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

1:16:41 OPTIONS.

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

1:16:46 WHEN YOU PONDER ON THOSE WORD

1:16:48 YOU SAY TO YOURSELF WHAT.

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

1:16:52 WE DO?

1:16:53 BECAUSE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THAT

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

1:16:57 HAITI FOR EXAMPLE BECAUSE

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

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

1:17:03 HERE AGAIN THE PERSON IS HERE

1:17:05 LEGALLY.

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

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

1:17:11 FEAR.

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

1:17:14 WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT THE

1:17:16 HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF YOU KNOW,

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

1:17:20 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE MUST

1:17:22 NEVER LOSE SIGHT OF.

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

1:17:27 DEEPLY TROUBLING CONSEQUENCE

1:17:28 THAT WE MUST RECOGNIZE IS THAT

1:17:31 MANY OF THE PEOPLE AFFECTED BY

1:17:34 THE SITUATION NOW THEY HAD

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

1:17:38 THEIR LIVES HERE.

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

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

1:17:44 HAD NOTHING THEY CAME ONLY

1:17:46 WITHIN ENVELOPE.

1:17:48 UM THEY EMBRACED THEIR COURAGE

1:17:50 .

1:17:50 THEY WENT TO SCHOOL, THEY

1:17:52 LEARNED ENGLISH.

1:17:53 THEY FOUND A JOB.

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

1:17:56 APARTMENT.

1:17:57 THEY ARE ABLE TO TAKE CARE

1:17:59 OF THEMSELVES AND TAKE CARE

1:17:59 OF THEIR FAMILIES.

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

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

1:18:05 ASK FOR PEOPLE TO HELP THOSE

1:18:07 OUT PEOPLE WHO ARE DETERMINED

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

1:18:10 TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES AND TO

1:18:12 TAKE CARE OF THEIR COMMUNITY.

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

1:18:18 THEY ARE BACK TO SQUARE ONE

1:18:20 WHERE THEY ARE AGAIN AT OUR

1:18:22 DOOR ASKING FOR HELP.

1:18:25 WHY?

1:18:25 BECAUSE THEY LOST THEIR

1:18:28 STATUES.

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

1:18:30 HOW MANY LAWS EVERYONE WAS AND

1:18:33 ALL OF THEM THEY LOST THEIR

1:18:34 STATUES.

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

1:18:38 ABSOLUTELY NOT LIKE THOSE 250

1:18:40 NUMBERS 50,000 NUMBERS.

1:18:41 EVERYONE LOST THEIR STATUES SO

1:18:44 HERE THEY ARE.

1:18:44 THEY CAN NO LONGER AFFORD THEIR

1:18:46 RENT.

1:18:47 THERE CAN NO LONGER THEY

1:18:49 STRUGGLE TO PUT FOOD ON THE

1:18:50 TABLE AND SOME OF THEM ARE

1:18:52 AFRAID OF EVEN GOING TO THEIR

1:18:53 MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS.

1:18:55 UH.

1:18:55 MY SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT

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

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

1:19:02 LIKE WHAT HAPPENED BECAUSE THAT

1:19:04 PERSON SUFFERED IMAGES TOOL AND

1:19:06 THE REASON WHY THE PERSON

1:19:08 SUFFERED STOPPED BECAUSE THE

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

1:19:11 THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE OF FEAR.

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

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

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

1:19:20 SO AGAIN.

1:19:21 UH.

1:19:21 WE FIND PEOPLE WHO CANNOT OR

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

1:19:27 EVEN GO TO DO THEIR GROCERY

1:19:30 SHOPPING.

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

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

1:19:35 OWN THAT THEY STARTED TO WORK

1:19:37 SOMEHOW TO REBUILD THEIR LIVES.

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

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

1:19:44 OF THOSE BUILDING UP AT LEAST

1:19:45 FOR US COMMUNITY BASED

1:19:47 ORGANIZATIONS THAT TO REALLY

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

1:19:52 TO ASSIST THOSE FAMILIES.

1:19:54 SO AGAIN WE ALWAYS WELCOME THE

1:19:56 OPPORTUNITY TO HELP AND WE WILL

1:19:57 CONTINUE TO DO WHATEVER THAT WE

1:19:59 NEED TO DO TO HELP.

1:20:01 BUT WE MUST ALSO ASK THOSE

1:20:04 QUESTIONS HOW DID PEOPLE WHO

1:20:06 ARE WORKING SUPPORTING THEIR

1:20:08 FAMILIES, CONTRIBUTING TO OUR

1:20:10 COMMUNITY SUDDENLY BECOME

1:20:12 PEOPLE WHO NOW NEED EMERGENCY

1:20:15 ASSISTANCE TO SURVIVE?

1:20:17 SO AGAIN, THOSE FAMILIES ARE

1:20:18 NOT ASKING FOR A HANDOUT.

1:20:20 THEY ARE ASKING FOR THE

1:20:21 OPPORTUNITY TO WORK TO PROVIDE

1:20:23 FOR THEIR CHILDREN, TO PAY

1:20:24 THEIR BILLS AND TO LIVE WITH

1:20:25 DIGNITY.

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

1:20:29 DISAPPEARED BECAUSE THEY DO

1:20:31 WANT TO WORK.

1:20:32 THE ABILITY AND WILLINGNESS TO

1:20:34 CONTRIBUTE HAVE NOT DISAPPEARED

1:20:35 BECAUSE THEY DO WANT TO

1:20:37 CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR COMMUNITY.

1:20:39 BUT WHAT HAS CHANGED IS THEIR

1:20:41 ABILITY TO ACCESS THOSE

1:20:43 OPPORTUNITIES THAT THEY HAD

1:20:44 WORKED SO HARD TO BUILD AND

1:20:46 WHEN THOSE OPPORTUNITIES

1:20:48 DISAPPEAR, THE CONSEQUENCES DO

1:20:50 NOT STOP WITH ONE INDIVIDUAL OR

1:20:52 ONE FAMILY THEY AFFECT CHILDREN

1:20:55 .

1:20:56 WE HEARD IN FOR BOSTON SCHOOL

1:20:58 THAT THIS YEAR THE EXPERIENCE

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

1:21:03 NUMBER OF CHILDREN WHO ARE

1:21:04 SUPPOSED TO RETURN TO SCHOOL,

1:21:06 THEY AFFECT LANDLORDS AND LOCAL

1:21:08 BUSINESSES.

1:21:09 THEY AFFECT SCHOOLS, HEALTH

1:21:10 CARE PROVIDERS, CHURCHES,

1:21:12 NONPROFIT AND COMMUNITY

1:21:14 ORGANIZATION.

1:21:15 A NUMBER OF CHURCH LEADERS ARE

1:21:16 COMPLAINING NOW WHEN SATURDAYS

1:21:19 ON SUNDAY THEIR SPACE IS EMPTY

1:21:22 BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE EVEN AFRAID

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

1:21:26 THE LOCAL ECONOMY.

1:21:28 AND THEY PLACE AN ENORMOUS

1:21:30 BURDEN ON ORGANIZATIONS THAT

1:21:32 ARE ALREADY DOING EVERYTHING

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

1:21:35 NEEDS OF VULNERABLE FAMILIES.

1:21:38 THE CONSEQUENCES OF IMMIGRATION

1:21:40 RAIDS THEREFORE GO FAR BEYOND

1:21:42 THE MOMENT WHEN SOMEONE IS

1:21:44 TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.

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

1:21:48 ALL CHILDREN WORRY ABOUT

1:21:50 WHETHER THEIR PARENTS WILL COME

1:21:52 BACK HOME.

1:21:53 WORKERS ARE AFRAID TO GO TO

1:21:55 WORK.

1:21:55 FAMILIES BECOME AFRAID TO SEEK

1:21:57 ASSISTANCE AND AN ENTIRE

1:21:59 NEIGHBORHOOD BEGIN TO WITHDRAW

1:22:01 FROM ORDINARY PUBLIC LIFE.

1:22:03 SO WE MUST TAKE SERIOUSLY THE

1:22:05 EMOTIONAL TOLL THE PHYSICAL AND

1:22:08 THE PHYSICAL.

1:22:09 UH, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND

1:22:11 CONSEQUENCE THAT FEAR HAS ON

1:22:13 FAMILIES.

1:22:14 WHEN SOMEONE TELLS US THERE IS

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

1:22:19 CANNOT SIMPLY DISMISS THOSE

1:22:20 WORDS BECAUSE THEY GO DEEPER

1:22:23 THAN JUST YOUR WORD.

1:22:24 WHEN PEOPLE FEEL TRAPPED YOU

1:22:26 KNOW, POWERLESS AND WITHOUT

1:22:28 OPTIONS DESPAIR CAN BECOME

1:22:31 OVERWHELMING.

1:22:31 UH, SOME PEOPLE MAY EXPERIENCE

1:22:33 SEVERE ANXIETY, DEPRESSION,

1:22:36 HOPELESSNESS AND THOUGHTS

1:22:38 OF HARMING THEMSELVES.

1:22:39 WE MUST LISTEN BECAUSE AGAIN,

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

1:22:44 SERVICES.

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

1:22:47 ABOUT THE EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING

1:22:50 OF OUR COMMUNITY.

1:22:51 WE MUST RECOGNIZE THAT

1:22:53 PROTECTING THE COMMUNITY IS NOT

1:22:55 ONLY ABOUT PHYSICAL SAFETY, IT

1:22:57 IS ALSO ABOUT PROTECTING

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

1:23:01 ,BELONGING AND HUMAN WORTH.

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

1:23:05 ALWAYS BEEN A CITY SHAPED BY

1:23:08 IMMIGRANTS OKAY?

1:23:09 THE PEOPLE WE LIVE IN OUR

1:23:10 NEIGHBORHOODS, WORK IN OUR

1:23:12 BUSINESSES, CARE FOR OUR

1:23:13 CHILDREN, SERVE IN OUR

1:23:14 HOSPITALS, BUILD OUR HOMES AND

1:23:16 THEY CONTRIBUTE AS WE SAY THEY

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

1:23:20 CITY.

1:23:21 SO BOSTON MUST LISTEN AND WE

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

1:23:25 HUMAN BEINGS BEHIND THE

1:23:28 HEADLINES IN STATISTICS?

1:23:30 SO I.

1:23:31 ASK YOU TO REMEMBER THE MOTHER

1:23:32 WHO IS AFRAID TO LEAVE HER

1:23:35 HOME.

1:23:36 THE FATHER WORRIES THAT HE MAY

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

1:23:39 CHILD THE CHILD WHO WONDERS

1:23:41 WHETHER OR NOT THE PARENTS WILL

1:23:43 COME BACK HOME, THE WORKERS

1:23:45 AFRAID TO GO TO WORK.

1:23:46 THE FAMILY THAT CAN NO LONGER

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

1:23:50 FOOD ON THE TABLE AND THE

1:23:52 PERSON WHO SAYS I AM TIRED

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

1:23:57 ALLOW FEAR TO BECOME THE

1:23:59 DEFINING EXPERIENCE OF AN

1:24:01 ENTIRE COMMUNITY.

1:24:02 WHATEVER WE THINK ABOUT

1:24:04 IMMIGRATION OR IMMIGRATION

1:24:06 POLICY, WE SHOULD ALL AGREE

1:24:08 THAT OF THAT ONE FUNDAMENTAL

1:24:10 PRINCIPLE EVERY PERSON DESERVE

1:24:13 TO BE TREATED WITH DIGNITY IN

1:24:15 FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY, DESERVE

1:24:17 ACCESS TO ACCURATE INFORMATION

1:24:19 ,SUPPORT AND RESOURCES DURING

1:24:21 MOMENTS OF CRISIS.

1:24:23 SO I'M.

1:24:23 ASKING THIS COUNCIL TO CONTINUE

1:24:25 LISTENING TO THE VOICES OF OUR

1:24:27 IMMIGRANT FAMILIES TO RECOGNIZE

1:24:29 THE PROFOUND IMPACT THAT

1:24:32 ENFORCEMENT.

1:24:32 ACTIONS CAN LEAVE CAN HAVE ON

1:24:34 OUR COMMUNITY AND TO STAND WITH

1:24:36 THOSE WHO ARE EXPERIENCING FEAR

1:24:39 AND UNCERTAINTY.

1:24:40 MOST IMPORTANTLY, LET US GIVE

1:24:43 PEOPLE HOPE.

1:24:44 WE MUST DO EVERYTHING IN OUR

1:24:46 POWER TO FIGHT THOSE EVIL

1:24:49 ATTACKS.

1:24:49 ON.

1:24:50 OUR COMMUNITY.

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

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

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

1:24:58 FOR IMMIGRANT FAMILIES.

1:25:00 SO WE ARE ASKING THIS

1:25:02 COUNCIL TO CONTINUE TO PUSH

1:25:03 FORWARD SO THAT ALL SENATORS

1:25:06 WHEREVER THIS TEAM.

1:25:07 CAN SIGN.

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

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

1:25:12 VALUES OF FEAR THAT PEOPLE ARE

1:25:14 FACING EVERY DAY.

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

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

1:25:20 TELL THEM THERE IS HOPE BECAUSE

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

1:25:26 ARE NOT ALONE AND BECAUSE WE

1:25:27 ARE WILLING TO DO WHATEVER IT

1:25:29 TAKES.

1:25:30 THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK.

1:25:32 YOU SO MUCH.

1:25:33 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:25:37 UH, MR.

1:25:38 CONCANNON.

1:25:39 YOU HAVE SIX MINUTES PLUS.

1:25:46 UH, THANK.

1:25:46 YOU.

1:25:47 COUNCILOR CULPEPPER.

1:25:48 UH, FOR FOR INVOKING THIS

1:25:49 MEETING AND INVITING ME TO

1:25:51 PARTICIPATE AND THANK YOU,

1:25:53 COUNCILOR MEJIA,

1:25:54 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND

1:25:55 COUNCILOR WEBER FOR FOR

1:25:57 ATTENDING THIS HEARING.

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

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

1:26:01 ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL TIME WHERE

1:26:03 WE'RE FACING MULTIPLE CRISES

1:26:05 FOR OUR ASIAN NEIGHBORS IN

1:26:08 BOSTON AND THROUGHOUT THE

1:26:09 COUNTRY.

1:26:10 UM, MY OWN WORK.

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

1:26:13 OF THE INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE

1:26:14 AND DEMOCRACY IN HAITI AND MY

1:26:16 WORK BRINGS ME LESSON DAY TO

1:26:19 DAY CONTACT WITH OUR OUR

1:26:20 HAITIAN NEIGHBORS.

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

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

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

1:26:28 HAVE ON THAT?

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

1:26:31 WORKING ON THE NATIONAL EFFORTS

1:26:33 TO, UM TO PROVIDE PROTECTION

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

1:26:38 UM, DOCUMENTING THE HUMAN

1:26:40 RIGHTS CONDITIONS IN HAITI THAT

1:26:43 ESTABLISH WHY HAITIAN SHOULD

1:26:44 NOT BE SENT BACK.

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

1:26:49 ON COUNTRY CONDITIONS IN HAITI

1:26:51 AND ASYLUM CASES.

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

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

1:26:54 SIX MINUTES.

1:26:55 UM, ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE

1:26:56 THOSE ISSUES.

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

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

1:27:02 OBVIOUSLY THE TPS CRISIS WAS

1:27:03 NOT CREATED IN BOSTON.

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

1:27:07 .

1:27:08 IT IS NOT OUR POLITICAL LEADERS

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

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

1:27:14 GENERATED IN WASHINGTON DC AND

1:27:17 SUPPORTED BY PUBLIC BY BY

1:27:19 POLITICAL LEADERS FROM OTHER

1:27:21 STATES AND ENABLED BY A SUPREME

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

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

1:27:28 GET TO A POLITICAL RESULT.

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

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

1:27:37 STARTING WE ALREADY HEARD ABOUT

1:27:38 THE DISCHARGE PETITION THAT

1:27:40 THAT LED TO THE HOUSE PASSING

1:27:43 IN APRIL THE BILL TO EXTEND

1:27:44 HAITI TPS FOR THREE MORE YEARS

1:27:47 THAT WAS DONE BY CITY

1:27:49 COUNCIL ALUM AYANNA PRESSLEY.

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

1:27:53 FACING A LOT OF GOOD.

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

1:27:55 OF HARD THINGS HERE AND SOME

1:27:57 OF THEM SEEM IMPOSSIBLE.

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

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

1:28:02 PREPARING OURSELVES TO DO THESE

1:28:03 HARD THINGS TO ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT

1:28:05 A NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE THING THAT,

1:28:07 UH, REPRESENTATIVE PRESTON'S

1:28:08 DISCHARGE PETITION I MEAN, SHE

1:28:10 GOT A DISCHARGE A LAW INVOLVING

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

1:28:15 HOUSE CONTROLLED BY MIKE

1:28:17 JOHNSON.

1:28:17 THAT IS AN EXTRAORDINARILY

1:28:19 ACCOMPLISHMENT.

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

1:28:21 TO OTHER EXTRAORDINARY

1:28:23 ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT WE'RE ALL

1:28:24 CALLED TO DO.

1:28:25 AND THE WAY THAT IT HAPPENED

1:28:26 WAS OBVIOUSLY VISIONARY

1:28:27 LEADERSHIP AND INCREDIBLE

1:28:29 PERSISTENCE BY UH,

1:28:31 REPRESENTATIVE PRESSLEY.

1:28:32 BUT SHE ALSO DID IT IN

1:28:34 CONJUNCTION WITH WITH ACTIVIST

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

1:28:39 INCLUDING YPSI, INCLUDING THE

1:28:40 TRUE ALLIANCE CENTER, INCLUDING

1:28:42 THE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST

1:28:44 SERVICE COMMITTEE THAT SENT OUT

1:28:46 UM TEXT MESSAGE TO EVERY

1:28:48 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST

1:28:49 CONGREGATION IN THE UNITED

1:28:50 STATES TELLING THEM TO MAKE

1:28:52 CALLS.

1:28:52 THEY WERE CALL CENTERS.

1:28:54 CALL PARTIES RUN OUT OF HULA

1:28:55 CAFE IN JAMAICA PLAIN.

1:28:57 UM THERE WERE UH PARTNERS IN

1:28:59 HEALTH ENGAGE THEY THEY BROUGHT

1:29:01 DOCTORS AND MED STUDENTS ACROSS

1:29:03 THE COUNTRY TO CALL THEM THEIR

1:29:05 REPRESENTATIVES.

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

1:29:07 HAPPEN.

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

1:29:09 UH.

1:29:10 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE WHO WAS

1:29:12 YOU KNOW, WHO WAS CALLING

1:29:14 LEADING CALL CENTERS USING HER

1:29:16 SOCIAL MEDIA SKILLS.

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

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

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

1:29:23 COLLEGE ROOMMATES EX-BOYFRIENDS

1:29:25 .

1:29:25 SISTER WHO.

1:29:27 WORKS FOR SUCH AND SUCH

1:29:29 REPRESENTATIVE IN WEST

1:29:30 VIRGINIA.

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

1:29:31 TOMORROW.

1:29:32 UM.

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

1:29:34 MIRACULOUS HAPPENED WAS THIS

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

1:29:37 ACTIVISTS AND POLITICAL LEADERS

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

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

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

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

1:29:47 NINE MORE SENATORS HAVE JOINED

1:29:49 IN THE LAST TEN DAYS.

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

1:29:53 DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE AND

1:29:55 WE'RE MAKING SOME REALISTIC

1:29:56 PROGRESS WITH WITH SEVERAL UH

1:29:59 SEVERAL REPUBLICAN SENATE

1:30:00 OFFICES.

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

1:30:04 UM FOR THE BOSTON CITY

1:30:06 COUNCIL ONE, YOU KNOW.

1:30:07 CALL YOUR COLLEGE ROOMMATES,

1:30:09 EX-BOYFRIENDS.

1:30:09 SISTER ANY.

1:30:10 CONTACTS IN THE CITY

1:30:11 COUNCILORS.

1:30:12 BUT I.

1:30:13 THINK WE HAVE A REAL

1:30:13 OPPORTUNITY IF YOU HAVE

1:30:14 CONNECTIONS WITH CITY COUNCILS

1:30:16 IN STATES WITH REPUBLICAN

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

1:30:19 MAINE.

1:30:20 SUSAN COLLINS IS PROBABLY OUR

1:30:21 SECOND EASIEST TARGET.

1:30:22 OHIO UM, SENATOR HUSTED IS

1:30:25 PROBABLY OUR THIRD EASIEST

1:30:26 TARGET RIGHT NOW.

1:30:27 BUT ANY OTHER STATES WHERE YOU

1:30:29 HAVE, UH, INTERESTED CITY

1:30:31 COUNCILORS WITH REPUBLICAN

1:30:32 GOVERNORS, THEIR CITY COUNCIL,

1:30:35 THEIR BIG CITIES CAN MAKE A

1:30:36 HUGE DIFFERENCE.

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

1:30:39 TO MENTION.

1:30:39 OBVIOUSLY THE THE THE THE FIGHT

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

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

1:30:46 AGAIN IS WORKING YOU KNOW,

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

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

1:30:50 INTO OUR CALLS EVERY EVERY

1:30:51 WEDNESDAY AT 4:00.

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

1:30:55 WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH THE

1:30:56 ACTIVISTS TO MAKE THIS TO MAKE

1:30:58 THIS HAPPEN.

1:30:59 UM.

1:31:02 ONE COMMENT ON THE ALTERNATIVE

1:31:05 IMMIGRATION STATUS I MEAN, THAT

1:31:07 CAN LITERALLY SAVE LIVES.

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

1:31:10 PEOPLE FROM INCREDIBLE PAIN AND

1:31:13 IN DETENTION IN FEAR

1:31:15 OF DETENTION AND A DEPORTATION

1:31:16 TO HAITI.

1:31:17 BUT WE HAVE TO REALIZE THAT

1:31:18 THAT'S BEING TAKEN.

1:31:19 WE HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING WE

1:31:20 CAN.

1:31:20 TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THOSE.

1:31:21 BUT WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT

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

1:31:27 TIME WHEN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH

1:31:28 IS MAKING AN ASSAULT ON THE

1:31:29 ASYLUM SYSTEM.

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

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

1:31:36 OF HAITIANS AND OTHER GROUPS

1:31:37 ARE GETTING FIRED FOR DOING SO

1:31:38 .

1:31:38 UM, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND

1:31:41 SECURITY ATTORNEYS THAT TWO

1:31:42 YEARS AGO WHAT IT STIPULATED TO

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

1:31:46 COMPELLING NOW THEY'RE NOT

1:31:48 STIPULATING TO EVERYTHING

1:31:49 THEY'RE FIGHTING.

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

1:31:51 THE WAY.

1:31:52 EVEN IF THEY BELIEVE THAT THE

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

1:31:55 FIGHTING BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO

1:31:56 TO KEEP FROM GETTING FIRED.

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

1:32:00 NEED TO KEEP FIGHTING THOSE.

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

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

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

1:32:08 THE ADMINISTRATION PRESSURE TO

1:32:10 THE SENATE.

1:32:10 AND IF WE HAVE A NEW

1:32:12 CONFIGURATION IN WASHINGTON IN

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

1:32:16 BILL THROUGH THE HOUSE AND THE

1:32:17 SENATE AND AGAIN, BOSTON CAN

1:32:19 PLAY A LEADERSHIP ROLE.

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

1:32:23 ABOUT THE THE DANGERS IN HAITI

1:32:26 .

1:32:26 UM, THE THREE LARGEST

1:32:28 DEPARTMENTS IN HAITI ARE

1:32:30 LARGELY UNDER ARMED GROUP

1:32:32 CONTROL.

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

1:32:34 HAVING ELECTIONS BUT THAT'S

1:32:35 LIKE HAVING AN ELECTION IN

1:32:36 MASSACHUSETTS WHEN ARMED GROUPS

1:32:38 ARE COMPLETELY CONTROLLING

1:32:39 BOSTON AND WORCESTER AND

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

1:32:42 BE POSSIBLE TO HAVE A FAIR

1:32:43 ELECTION.

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

1:32:47 REPORTED.

1:32:48 THIS IS WHAT WAS DOCUMENTED AND

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

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

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

1:32:56 VIOLENCE IN HAITI IN 2026.

1:32:59 IT LOOKS LIKE 2025 IT LOOKS

1:33:01 LIKE THOSE NUMBERS ARE GOING UP

1:33:03 .

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

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

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

1:33:12 HUNGRIEST COUNTRIES IN THE

1:33:14 UNITED AND IN THE WORLD.

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

1:33:18 A REPORT ESTIMATING THAT

1:33:19 250,000 KIDS ARE FACING FAMINE

1:33:21 RIGHT NOW.

1:33:22 UH, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY

1:33:24 EPIDEMIC SEXUAL ASSAULT AS THE

1:33:26 ARMED GROUPS USE USE SEXUAL

1:33:28 ASSAULT AS A WAY TO CONTROL

1:33:30 WOMEN AND GIRLS.

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

1:33:34 LET ME ASK YOU A.

1:33:35 QUESTION WHAT SHOULD THE UNITED

1:33:37 STATES BE DOING.

1:33:39 RIGHT NOW?

1:33:40 WHAT SHOULD WE BE DOING?

1:33:42 UM.

1:33:43 SO YOU.

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

1:33:44 TERM ANSWER TO THAT AND THE

1:33:46 SHORT TERM ANSWER THE LONG TERM

1:33:48 IS THAT THE UNITED STATES NEEDS

1:33:50 TO SUPPORT AN INDEPENDENT

1:33:53 STRONG GOVERNMENT IN HAITI.

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

1:33:55 DONE.

1:33:56 UM, HAITI BECAME AN INDEPENDENT

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

1:34:02 FORMERLY ENSLAVED PEOPLE SELF

1:34:04 EMANCIPATING, UH, THE UNITED

1:34:05 STATES ALONG WITH MANY OF THE

1:34:07 OTHER WEALTHY COUNTRIES IN THE

1:34:08 WORLD HAVE NEVER FORGIVEN HAITI

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

1:34:12 PREVENTED HAITI FROM SERVING

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

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

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

1:34:21 THAT.

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

1:34:23 AND OBVIOUSLY THAT NEEDS TO

1:34:24 STOP IN TERMS OF MORE SHORT

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

1:34:28 CURRENTLY SUPPORTING A

1:34:29 GOVERNMENT THAT IS SUPPORTING

1:34:31 THE GANGS.

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

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

1:34:36 SECOND LAST LAST UM MOST RECENT

1:34:38 LIVING PRESIDENT MICHEL

1:34:40 MARTELLY WHO THE UNITED STATES

1:34:41 SUPPORTED TO AGAIN BIPARTISAN

1:34:43 SUPPORT HE'S RUNNING FOR

1:34:44 PRESIDENT IN THE ELECTIONS UH,

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

1:34:48 BEEN SANCTIONED BY THE UNITED

1:34:50 STATES FOR UH, SUPPORTING GANGS

1:34:52 AND RUNNING DRUGS.

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

1:34:55 THAT AND WE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT

1:34:56 IT.

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

1:34:59 PEOPLE IN HAITI BECAUSE THEY

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

1:35:03 BECAUSE THEY'LL REPRESENT THE

1:35:05 THE WISHES OF THE HAITIAN

1:35:06 PEOPLE.

1:35:06 THAT OBVIOUSLY NEEDS TO CHANGE.

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

1:35:10 HAITI.

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

1:35:11 THOSE GUNS ARE ALL COMING FROM

1:35:13 THE UNITED STATES, MOSTLY FROM

1:35:15 FLORIDA.

1:35:15 WE NEED TO STOP THAT.

1:35:17 THANK YOU.

1:35:18 THANK THANK YOU,

1:35:21 MR CONCANNON.

1:35:21 UM.

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

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

1:35:26 THERE ARE 1.5 MILLION PEOPLE IN

1:35:29 HAITI WHO ARE DISPLACED BY

1:35:30 ARMED GROUP VIOLENCE.

1:35:32 JUST TO PUT THAT INTO

1:35:34 PERSPECTIVE, 1.5 MILLION PEOPLE

1:35:38 IS EVERYBODY IN BOSTON PLUS

1:35:40 EVERYBODY IN WORCESTER PLUS

1:35:42 SPRINGFIELD, CAMBRIDGE, LOWELL

1:35:45 ,BROCKTON AND NEW BEDFORD.

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

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

1:35:50 RESULT OF GANG VIOLENCE.

1:35:51 THANK YOU.

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

1:35:54 LOUIJEUNE.

1:35:55 YOU HAVE FOUR MINUTES FOR.

1:35:58 THAT SINCE LAST.

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

1:36:01 YOU GO FOR IT NOW.

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

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

1:36:06 JUST GOING TO SAY SO HOPEFULLY

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

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

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

1:36:14 OKAY AND WE'LL.

1:36:15 GO TO.

1:36:16 A SECOND AND.

1:36:16 THIRD ROUND IF.

1:36:17 NECESSARY ALL RIGHT THANK YOU.

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

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

1:36:22 NEW FRIEND LIKE BRIAN I JUST

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

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

1:36:26 THE FIGHT FOR AGAINST

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

1:36:32 OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES, THE

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

1:36:36 ONGOING SINCE 1804.

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

1:36:39 FOR US REALLY TO EXPERIENCE THE

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

1:36:43 HAD THE ONLY COUNTRY FOUNDED IN

1:36:44 THE WORLD FROM A SLAVE REVOLT

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

1:36:47 STAND ON THEIR FEET?

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

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

1:36:52 WANTED TO STATE THAT THIS

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

1:36:57 ONLINE UH, IN DORCHESTER

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

1:37:01 AS YOU MENTIONED IT CALLED THE

1:37:03 FORGOTTEN UM, OCCUPATION JIM

1:37:04 CROW GOES TO HAITI WHICH TELLS

1:37:06 THE STORY ACTUALLY FOR ANYONE

1:37:07 WHO WAS INTERESTED OF HOW THE

1:37:10 UNITED STATES HAS HAD ITS FOOT

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

1:37:14 TIME.

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

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

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

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

1:37:22 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BOSTON

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

1:37:26 WHAT WE'RE EXPERIENCING AND

1:37:27 WANT TO THANK THE FILMMAKER FOR

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

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

1:37:34 ALLEN MARTIN AND I KNOW THAT

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

1:37:38 LIAISON HAS BEEN REALLY

1:37:39 INVOLVED.

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

1:37:43 DIDN'T COME UP.

1:37:44 WE ARE OFTEN GETTING THESE

1:37:45 SCARES ABOUT ISIS HERE, ISIS

1:37:47 THERE.

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

1:37:51 TO THANK THE COMMISSIONER

1:37:53 COMMISSIONER MICHAEL COX

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

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

1:37:57 HAPPENING, ESPECIALLY IF WE

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

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

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

1:38:05 OR SOMETHING INVOLVED.

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

1:38:07 WAS HAPPENED RECENTLY.

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

1:38:09 OUT.

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

1:38:11 THE ZOO AND THE SUPERINTENDENTS

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

1:38:14 TRYING TO MAKE SURE WHEN WE

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

1:38:17 IN OUR CITY.

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

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

1:38:24 MENTIONED THE CURRENT VIOLENCE.

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

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

1:38:29 PEACEFUL TOWN OF KEN SCARFE

1:38:31 JUST A MONTH AGO WHERE GANGS

1:38:34 BLUDGEONED AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY

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

1:38:41 MORE THAN 50.

1:38:42 THESE ARE THE REALITIES THAT

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

1:38:47 MEMBERS, OUR OUR COMMUNITIES

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

1:38:50 VERY REAL AND ARE VERY.

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

1:38:56 TO UPLIFT THE WORK OF THE

1:38:58 NATIONAL TPS COMMITTEE, DORIS

1:38:59 AND UH, SO MANY INCREDIBLE

1:39:01 PEOPLE.

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

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

1:39:05 PROTEST IN FRONT OF THE SUPREME

1:39:06 COURT.

1:39:07 BUT WE'VE SEEN THIS

1:39:09 ADMINISTRATION DO SOMETHING

1:39:10 INTERESTING WITH EL SALVADOR

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

1:39:15 WANT TPS EXTENDED FOR ALL

1:39:17 OF THE COUNTRIES THAT CONTINUE

1:39:18 TO HAVE THE COUNTRY CONDITIONS

1:39:20 THAT WOULD ALLOW REQUIRE AN

1:39:22 EXTENSION OF TPS.

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

1:39:25 TO US THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN

1:39:26 HOW THIS ADMINISTRATION IS

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

1:39:29 TALKING ABOUT COUNTRY

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

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

1:39:33 LEADING QUESTION WHAT THEY

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

1:39:36 JUST AFFIRMS THAT WHAT WE ARE

1:39:38 SEEING IS RACISM ROOTED IN

1:39:42 ANTI-BLACKNESS BECAUSE

1:39:43 OTHERWISE NONE OF THIS MAKES

1:39:44 SENSE.

1:39:44 YOU.

1:39:47 UM SURE.

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

1:39:49 ON THE KEN.

1:39:50 SCOTT NUMBERS.

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

1:39:53 WAS INITIALLY REPORTED.

1:39:54 A REPORT JUST CAME OUT EARLIER

1:39:55 THIS WEEK THAT WAS UH PUTTING

1:39:57 AT 165 UM AFTER MORE THOROUGH

1:40:00 INVESTIGATION REALLY HORRIFIC.

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

1:40:03 MASSACRE HAPPENED LATE AUGUST.

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

1:40:05 THERE HAVE BEEN MASSACRE IN

1:40:07 JULY IN JANUARY OF 2025.

1:40:09 AND KEN SCOTT WAS SUCH A

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

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

1:40:13 GOT TOGETHER AND SAY THIS IS

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

1:40:15 SCOTT.

1:40:16 BUT IN THE MONTHS THAT FOLLOWED

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

1:40:19 POLICE THAT THEY HAD SENT THERE

1:40:20 TO PUT IN THAT PLAN.

1:40:22 A WEEK BEFORE THE MASSACRE THEY

1:40:23 TOOK OUT THE LAST ARMORED CAR

1:40:24 BECAUSE THERE WAS NO POLICE

1:40:25 OFFICER TO DRIVE IT.

1:40:26 SO THAT JUST SHOWS HOW THE

1:40:28 HAITIAN POLICE IS IS EITHER

1:40:29 UNWILLING OR UNABLE TO PROVIDE

1:40:32 ANY PROTECTION, YOU KNOW AND

1:40:33 OF COURSE HAITI HAS BEEN WAS

1:40:36 WAS THE FIRST TPS THAT THE

1:40:37 PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED HE WAS

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

1:40:40 UH.

1:40:41 MEAN A WEEK AFTER HE CAME

1:40:43 INTO OFFICE.

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

1:40:45 EVEN GOT ELECTED.

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

1:40:49 THREE HE WAS TALKING ABOUT

1:40:51 ABOUT YOU KNOW, MAKING

1:40:52 EXTREMELY RACIST AND VILE

1:40:53 ACCUSATIONS ABOUT HAITIANS AND

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

1:40:57 CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED WRONG BUT

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

1:41:01 THIS IS INSEPARABLE FROM FROM

1:41:03 RACISM AND AND OBVIOUSLY, YOU

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

1:41:06 HAVING TPS FOR EL SALVADOR BUT

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

1:41:10 REASONS ARE AS COMPELLING AS

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

1:41:14 NO GROUP NOW THE VENEZUELANS

1:41:16 WERE LARGER THAN HATE THAN

1:41:18 HAITI.

1:41:18 BUT YOU KNOW, AFTER VENEZUELA

1:41:20 HAITI IS BY FAR THE LARGEST

1:41:21 GROUP OF TPS RECIPIENTS AND

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

1:41:25 UP AFTER HAITIANS.

1:41:26 AND THEN WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT

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

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

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

1:41:36 SO SAD AND DESPERATE WAS THE

1:41:37 FACT THAT HE WAS WEARING ANKLE

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

1:41:41 THAT THAT THAT WAS A

1:41:43 DELIBERATELY PRODUCED RESULT

1:41:44 OF THE STRATEGY.

1:41:45 THEY DID NOT NEED AN ANKLE

1:41:48 MONITOR TO FOLLOW HIM.

1:41:49 HE WAS IN JUNIOR ROTC.

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

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

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

1:41:56 HE HAD A JOB.

1:41:57 THEY COULD HAVE FOUND HIM

1:41:58 OF ALL PEOPLE.

1:41:59 UM, BUT THEY.

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

1:42:02 THEY NEEDED HIM TO FEEL.

1:42:05 DEHUMANIZED AND.

1:42:06 UM.

1:42:07 AND DISCRIMINATED AGAINST.

1:42:08 YEAH.

1:42:09 THANK YOU.

1:42:10 AND QUICKLY JUST TO MENTION

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

1:42:13 RIGHT.

1:42:13 NOW WITH.

1:42:14 OPENING MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR

1:42:17 PEOPLE FROM SOUTH AFRICA, WHITE

1:42:18 PEOPLE FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO.

1:42:20 COME TO THE US.

1:42:21 AND EVERY SINGLE WEEK THEY ARE

1:42:24 INCREASING THE NUMBERS OKAY FOR

1:42:25 THEM TO COME.

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

1:42:29 MEAN HERE.

1:42:30 EVERYTHING IS ALREADY WAITING

1:42:32 FOR THEM.

1:42:33 YOU KNOW EVEN THEIR WORK PERMIT

1:42:35 IS WAITING FOR THEM BEFORE THEY

1:42:37 EVEN LEAVE.

1:42:38 COMPARED TO WHEN OUR PEOPLE

1:42:39 WERE COMING HERE THEY HAD TO

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

1:42:43 PERMIT.

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

1:42:45 GET ANY SPECIAL BENEFITS HERE

1:42:48 WE ARE WITHIN THAT DECISION

1:42:50 THAT IS OPENING DOORS TO SOUTH

1:42:53 AFRICANS TO COME HERE WHITE

1:42:55 STUFF UP AGAIN TO COME HERE

1:42:56 WHILE CLOSING DOORS TO THEIR

1:42:58 NEXT DOOR NEIGHBORS HAITI.

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

1:43:02 THEY ARE HIDING ANYTHING IN

1:43:04 TERMS OF YOU KNOW YOU KNOW

1:43:05 THEIR DESIRE TO DISCRIMINATE

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

1:43:08 DOCTOR GABO IT SOUNDS JUST LIKE

1:43:11 AFTER THE.

1:43:12 EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION WAS

1:43:15 ENACTED.

1:43:15 THE FIRST THING THEY DID.

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

1:43:20 HOMES AND.

1:43:21 MORTGAGES AND PRECLUDED.

1:43:23 BLACK FOLKS FROM EVEN.

1:43:24 GETTING A MORTGAGE BUT.

1:43:26 MORTGAGE THOSE THAT WERE

1:43:27 QUALIFIED.

1:43:28 MHM.

1:43:28 UH UNTIL.

1:43:29 COUNCIL WERE HERE.

1:43:31 I MEAN I'LL.

1:43:32 GIVE YOU FOUR MINUTES AND

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

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

1:43:36 QUESTIONS EXACTLY.

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

1:43:39 I GOT GOING ONE QUESTION.

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

1:43:42 BECAUSE I HAVE MORE.

1:43:43 OKAY.

1:43:43 COULD I.

1:43:44 COULD COME HERE AND FOUR.

1:43:48 MINUTES.

1:43:48 AND AS YOU SHOULD RESPECT THE

1:43:50 LEAD SPONSOR WHO HAS BEEN.

1:43:52 DEDICATING A LOT OF HER TIME

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

1:43:56 SUPPORTING THIS ISSUE.

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

1:44:00 SECOND THE.

1:44:01 YOU HAVE FOR.

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

1:44:05 MINUTES TO ADVOCATE FOR MY

1:44:05 COLLEAGUES.

1:44:06 YES I AGREE UH.

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

1:44:09 EVERYTHING HERE TODAY.

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

1:44:12 PLEASE STOP IT.

1:44:13 YOU TAUGHT ME AND YOU TAUGHT

1:44:15 ME.

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

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

1:44:20 .

1:44:21 OKAY?

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

1:44:23 THANK YOU ALL FOR IN THIS

1:44:27 MOMENT WHERE WE'RE EXPERIENCING

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

1:44:31 LIKE YOURS THAT ARE STANDING IN

1:44:33 THE FRONT LINE AND OFTENTIMES

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

1:44:36 TO GO.

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

1:44:40 YOU AND THEN YOU HAVE TO

1:44:41 REDIRECT THEM EVERYWHERE.

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

1:44:44 QUESTIONS AROUND THE SUPPORT UM

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

1:44:51 THE CAPACITY IN THIS MOMENT IS

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

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

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

1:45:01 SO DID YOU.

1:45:02 DOCTOR DJIBO AND I WOULD LIKE

1:45:04 TO HEAR SPECIFICS.

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

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

1:45:13 MENTIONED SOME NUMBERS AND I

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

1:45:17 WHAT ARE YOU SEEING?

1:45:18 BECAUSE THE GRANTS HAVE COME

1:45:19 OUT ALREADY NOW WE HAVE TO

1:45:20 START THINKING ABOUT NEXT

1:45:21 YEAR'S BUDGET IN TERMS

1:45:23 OF REALLY MEETING THIS MOMENT.

1:45:25 WHAT IS THE WHAT IS THE

1:45:27 FINANCIAL UM OUTLOOK LOOKS LIKE

1:45:30 ?

1:45:33 SO I MEAN AGAIN THE SITUATION

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

1:45:37 IT'S.

1:45:38 SUCH AT.

1:45:40 AN INCREDIBLE LEVEL OF YOU

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

1:45:45 ALMOST LIKE NO AMOUNT

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

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

1:45:50 ARE WE HAVE TO DO.

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

1:45:54 DO SOMETHING.

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

1:45:57 THIS WEEK OR LAST WEEK?

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

1:45:59 BOTH YOU KNOW, THE HOUSING

1:46:01 DEPARTMENT HERE, UH, THE

1:46:03 COUNCIL ELECTION AND THE STATE

1:46:05 TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WE ARE

1:46:06 SEEING EVERY WEEK CLOSE TO 20

1:46:08 FAMILIES ARE COMING TO OUR

1:46:10 DOORS.

1:46:12 WHY?

1:46:13 BECAUSE THEY RECEIVE AN

1:46:14 EVICTION LETTER BECAUSE THEY

1:46:16 CANNOT PAY THEIR RENT.

1:46:17 AND BECAUSE AGAIN HOME BASE IS

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

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

1:46:23 YEAR PROGRAM WHERE THOSE PEOPLE

1:46:25 HAVE ALREADY USED THEIR HOME

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

1:46:28 SUPPORT THAT THEY NEED TO

1:46:30 MAINTAIN, YOU KNOW THERE SO

1:46:32 THINK ABOUT.

1:46:33 UH IF SEE FOR EXAMPLE SERVING

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

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

1:46:41 OUT OF THOSE MATCHING TYSON,

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

1:46:46 ONLY HAD TPS.

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

1:46:49 YOU KNOW TPS IS GOOD FOR

1:46:50 EVERYONE BUT SOME TPS FAMILIES

1:46:53 APPLIED FOR SALEM AND BECAUSE

1:46:55 THEY APPLY FOR ASYLUM SOME

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

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

1:47:00 ALTHOUGH THEY ARE STILL LIVING

1:47:01 IN FEAR BECAUSE EVEN WHEN YOU

1:47:03 HAVE A PENDING APPLICATION.

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

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

1:47:09 KNOW, THEY TAKE YOU.

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

1:47:12 HAD APPLY FOR ASYLUM BUT THE

1:47:14 OTHER HALF WHEN THEY APPLY THEY

1:47:16 DID NOT EVEN RECEIVE THEIR WORK

1:47:18 PERMIT ON TIME.

1:47:19 SO WHICH MEANS THAT THOSE ARE

1:47:20 PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW WITHOUT

1:47:22 WORK.

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

1:47:25 ALL OF THOSE FAMILIES WE WE

1:47:26 RENTING AN APARTMENT AND NOW

1:47:28 CANNOT AFFORD TO PAY FOR THE

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

1:47:32 ON THEIR TABLE, CANNOT EVEN

1:47:34 AFFORD TO HAVE LEGAL BECAUSE

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

1:47:38 UH MACY.

1:47:39 IS DOING A WONDERFUL JOB TO

1:47:41 REPRESENT FAMILY IN THE COURT

1:47:42 SYSTEM.

1:47:42 BUT GUESS WHAT DEAR WAITLIST IS

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

1:47:47 THAT THEY CAN REALLY SUPPORT

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

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

1:47:51 OUTSIDE OF THE BOX.

1:47:53 WHAT CAN WE DO?

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

1:47:56 ?

1:47:56 HOW DO WE BRING THOSE

1:47:57 UNIVERSITIES?

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

1:47:59 SCHOOLS TO COME IN SUPPORT

1:48:01 BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY THAT

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

1:48:04 BUILT ON.

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

1:48:06 FUNDING ESPECIALLY LIKE LAW FOR

1:48:08 AN ORGANIZATION LIKE US BECAUSE

1:48:11 WE IN ONE STOP SERVICE CENTER

1:48:12 ORGANIZATION MEANING THAT WE

1:48:14 ARE TOUCHING ON DIFFERENT AREAS

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

1:48:18 ABSOLUTELY NO FUNDING THAT

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

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

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

1:48:24 YOU KNOW, ALL THE NETWORK

1:48:26 AROUND US WE WOULD HAVE CREWS

1:48:28 OUT THOSE LONG TIME PEOPLE.

1:48:29 SO YEAH.

1:48:29 JUST IF YOU ALREADY.

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

1:48:35 ABOUT UH.

1:48:36 COUNSELOR MOORE HERE HAS JUST.

1:48:38 FINISHED HER TIME.

1:48:40 UH, YOU.

1:48:41 CAN FINISH.

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

1:48:43 TO MOVE ON.

1:48:43 TO COUNCIL.

1:48:44 WEBER AND.

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

1:48:46 BACK FOR A SECOND.

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

1:48:49 COUNCIL LOUIJEUNE.

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

1:48:51 IT'S OKAY.

1:49:00 WELL AWKWARD BECAUSE I DO HAVE

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

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

1:49:05 THAT OKAY?

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

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

1:49:12 GOING TO EVEN ASK ANOTHER

1:49:13 QUESTION.

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

1:49:14 THIS WHOLE IDEA OF BEING

1:49:16 INNOVATIVE AND THINKING OUTSIDE

1:49:17 THE BOX IS EXACTLY THE TYPE

1:49:20 OF CONVERSATIONS THAT WE SHOULD

1:49:21 BE HAVING BECAUSE WE HAVE THE

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

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

1:49:26 THAT ARE NOT OPERATING AT NIGHT

1:49:28 AND THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES THERE

1:49:30 FOR HOW DO WE UTILIZE SOME

1:49:31 OF THE SPACES THAT WE HAVE

1:49:33 PUBLICLY FOR SHELTER?

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

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

1:49:39 OF RENTAL EMPTY UNITS BECAUSE

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

1:49:43 THIS MOMENT.

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

1:49:46 LANDLORDS?

1:49:47 I THINK I WOULD BE INTERESTED

1:49:49 IN THE ALTERNATIVES OF WHAT WE

1:49:51 CAN BE DOING NOW BECAUSE NO

1:49:54 AMOUNT OF MONEY IS GOING TO

1:49:56 SOLVE IT.

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

1:49:57 TAPPING INTO THE GREATER

1:49:58 COMMUNITY.

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

1:50:00 QUESTIONS BECAUSE I WANT TO BE

1:50:01 RESPECTFUL OF MY COLLEAGUES AND

1:50:02 THANK YOU.

1:50:03 THANK YOU COUNCIL MAYOR.

1:50:05 COUNCIL WEBER.

1:50:06 SURE THING.

1:50:07 THANK YOU.

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

1:50:12 SO FOR MR CONCANNON, YOU

1:50:14 MENTIONED THREE DEMOCRATS HAD

1:50:16 SIGNED UP IN THE SENATE HAVE

1:50:19 NOT SIGNED YOU HAVE NOT SIGNED

1:50:20 WHO WHO ARE THEY?

1:50:21 UM, SENATOR BALDWIN, SENATOR

1:50:25 PETERS AND.

1:50:26 SENATOR KELLY.

1:50:27 OKAY.

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

1:50:31 PARTICIPATED IN SOME OF THE THE

1:50:33 PHONE CALLING THAT UH THAT

1:50:35 EVERYONE SET UP AND THANK YOU

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

1:50:38 DISTRICT SIX CITY

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

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

1:50:43 THAT.

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

1:50:46 IN TENNESSEE AND WENT TO LAW

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

1:50:50 OF PEOPLE WHO WERE DATING

1:50:52 SOMEBODY WHO USED TO KNOW

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

1:50:55 OFFICES.

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

1:50:57 HAPPY TO TRY.

1:50:58 PARTICULARLY GOOD BECAUSE

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

1:51:01 VULNERABLE REPUBLICAN.

1:51:03 YEAH.

1:51:04 NO I HAVE A FORMER CLASSMATES

1:51:05 ARE RUNNING FOR ATTORNEY

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

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

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

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

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

1:51:23 GABEL, IS THERE SOMETHING THAT

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

1:51:27 WHICH PRESERVES PEOPLE'S RIGHTS

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

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

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

1:51:37 UM.

1:51:38 YOU KNOW WHAT IS THE MOST

1:51:40 EFFECTIVE TOOL TO BE LIKE?

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

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

1:51:46 WORKER STATUS FOR EMPLOYERS

1:51:47 SHOULD THE EMPLOYERS BE FILING

1:51:50 SOMETHING?

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

1:51:52 LIKE, YOU KNOW.

1:51:54 THEN YOU.

1:51:54 CAME FROM THE LAW SIDE.

1:51:55 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GETTING

1:51:56 THESE LAW FIRMS IN THERE.

1:51:57 BUT WHAT SHOULD WE BE?

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

1:52:00 DOING?

1:52:02 UM, YEAH.

1:52:03 I MEAN.

1:52:04 THE TRUE ANSWER IS.

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

1:52:07 LAW EXPERT MYSELF.

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

1:52:10 GIVE AN ANSWER THAT WOULD.

1:52:12 SATISFY YOU HERE.

1:52:13 UM.

1:52:15 THE TRUTH IS.

1:52:16 I MEAN, THE.

1:52:17 REALITY IS.

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

1:52:21 FOR AN ISSUE.

1:52:22 THAT WE FEEL.

1:52:23 HAS TO BE RESOLVED AT THE

1:52:25 FEDERAL LEVEL.

1:52:26 UM.

1:52:27 AND SO.

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

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

1:52:32 BACK TO YOU.

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

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

1:52:36 ABOUT PRACTICING IMMIGRATION

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

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

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

1:52:42 IMPARTIAL JUDGE.

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

1:52:44 PLAYING ON THEIR FIELD AND

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

1:52:48 SOMETHING.

1:52:49 I NEVER ENJOYED THAT.

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

1:52:52 VERY DIFFICULT FIGHT AND I

1:52:54 THINK EVERYONE WHO GOES INTO

1:52:56 THAT SORRY.

1:52:56 CAN I SAID ONE QUICK.

1:52:58 UH UH RESPONSE TO THAT.

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

1:53:01 GROUP.

1:53:01 OF IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ARE

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

1:53:05 AN OMNIBUS MOTION TO PREVENT

1:53:08 ALL DEPORTATIONS TO HAITI.

1:53:10 THEY'RE ACTUALLY.

1:53:11 HOPING TO GET THAT DONE THIS

1:53:12 WEEK.

1:53:12 YES.

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

1:53:14 GOING TO GET IT OUT TO

1:53:15 EVERYBODY AND EVERY IMMIGRATION

1:53:16 LAWYER WANTS TO AT EVERY

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

1:53:20 KNOW, AND THEN THE LETTER

1:53:21 BASICALLY SAYS THAT IT'S

1:53:22 COMPLETELY.

1:53:23 LEGALLY AND MORALLY UNJUSTIFIED

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

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

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

1:53:28 IT MIGHT CONVINCE SOME.

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

1:53:30 TOOL.

1:53:31 IN THE TOOLBOX.

1:53:31 YEAH.

1:53:32 OKAY.

1:53:32 AND THEN WHAT ABOUT I MEAN

1:53:34 SO FROM THE EMPLOYER SIDE I

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

1:53:38 GUEST WORKER PROTECTION.

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

1:53:41 THIS THESE PEOPLE OR THIS

1:53:44 PERSON TO BE LIKE THE FOREIGN

1:53:46 GUEST WORKER AND THAT GIVES

1:53:47 THEM I THINK WORKER

1:53:48 AUTHORIZATION I JUST AS ANY ANY

1:53:52 DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THAT UM.

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

1:53:56 BEEN INVOLVED IN A COUPLE

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

1:53:59 HIGH BAR.

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

1:54:00 NO NO.

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

1:54:02 THAT POSITION.

1:54:03 NO, I MEAN I REPRESENTED

1:54:04 MIGRANT FARMWORKERS AND A LOT

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

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

1:54:09 THIS IS PRETTY MUCH RUBBER

1:54:11 STAMPED.

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

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

1:54:16 KNOW, LIKE CAT FANCY MAGAZINE

1:54:18 FOR CONTINGENT WORKERS AND

1:54:19 NOBODY RESPONDED THEREFORE

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

1:54:22 WORK BUT UH.

1:54:23 BUT BUT WE DO NEED EMPLOYERS

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

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

1:54:29 DESPITE EVERYTHING ELSE THAT IS

1:54:30 GOING ON WE HAVE SEEN SOME

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

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

1:54:35 BECAUSE PEOPLE DO STEP UP.

1:54:37 SO WHEN YOU TAKE THE FOR

1:54:39 EXAMPLE THE HEALTH CARE

1:54:39 INDUSTRY VOTE FOR EXAMPLE ON

1:54:41 THE IMPACT OF LOSING SO MANY

1:54:44 WORKERS.

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

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

1:54:49 SPEAKING OUT LOUD TO SAY THAT

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

1:54:53 CONTINUE TO TO WORK LIKE THIS

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

1:54:57 WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THE

1:54:58 ECONOMIC IMPACT OF TERMINATION

1:55:01 IF ALL OF THE MAJOR EMPLOYERS

1:55:03 WHERE TO RAISE THEIR VOICE IN

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

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

1:55:09 TO SUPPORT THE WORKERS THAT

1:55:10 THEY ARE LOSING.

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

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

1:55:15 COURAGE TO STAND UP AND SAY

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

1:55:20 UM YEAH.

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

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

1:55:24 HAPPENING WITH WHITE SOUTH

1:55:25 AFRICANS, YOU KNOW, REFUGEES

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

1:55:30 WHEN THE THE THE INITIAL

1:55:33 CHALLENGES TO THE TERMINATION

1:55:34 OF TPS STATUS THAT THERE WERE

1:55:36 LIKE COURT DECISIONS FINDING

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

1:55:41 SUMMARY JUDGMENT RECORD THAT

1:55:42 THE REASON FOR TERMINATING THEM

1:55:44 WAS BASED ON RACIAL YEAH

1:55:46 RACISM.

1:55:47 YEAH RACIAL ANIMUS OR

1:55:48 SOMETHING.

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

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

1:55:55 JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS IS JUST

1:55:57 .

1:55:58 IT'S JUST.

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

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

1:56:04 YOU KNOW, WITH THE ANKLE

1:56:05 MONITORS AND THE WAY PEOPLE ARE

1:56:07 GETTING DETAINED NEAR SCHOOLS

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

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

1:56:14 INTENTION HERE IS TO INFLICT

1:56:17 PAIN.

1:56:18 UH, AND.

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

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

1:56:23 THANK COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE

1:56:25 HONESTLY FOR LEADING AND AND

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

1:56:30 WHATEVER HOUSE WE ARE GOING TO

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

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

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

1:56:37 JUST WANT TO THANK THE

1:56:38 PANELISTS I I HAVE SOME MORE

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

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

1:56:42 ANY CHANCE.

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

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

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

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

1:56:51 MUCH.

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

1:56:57 WILL PRESENT FOR TWO MINUTES

1:56:59 ON.

1:57:01 ZOOM.

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

1:57:08 TO COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

1:57:23 UH MISS THAT.

1:57:31 IT OKAY.

1:57:31 YOU GUYS HEAR ME?

1:57:34 YES.

1:57:36 UH, GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.

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

1:57:39 OPPORTUNITY TO TESTIFY AND BE A

1:57:41 FEW OF MY COMMUNITY.

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

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

1:57:46 IN THE ASIAN COMMUNITY.

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

1:57:51 TWO MINUTES TO DESCRIBE THE

1:57:52 SITUATION THAT WE HAVE MADE

1:57:53 KNOWN TO HAITI.

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

1:57:56 HERE IN THE LEFT HAITI.

1:57:58 WHAT HAPPENED?

1:57:58 YOU HAVE GREAT.

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

1:58:01 PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS GOING TO

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

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

1:58:06 FAMILY BACK HOME.

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

1:58:10 THE COUNTRY STILL THE SAME.

1:58:12 WE HAVE LIKE UH POLITICAL

1:58:14 INSTABILITY AND THAT NEVER

1:58:15 CHANGE.

1:58:15 WE GOT SOME CORRUPT GOVERNMENT

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

1:58:19 COUNTRY.

1:58:20 SO THOSE PEOPLE UM THEY ARE

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

1:58:25 ELECTRICIAN TECHNICIANS UM HVAC

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

1:58:29 PEOPLE THAT LIKE OH DID LIKE

1:58:30 JUST JUST ONE DUMB PEOPLE AND

1:58:32 THEY CAME IN NOT BECAUSE THEY

1:58:34 CAME BECAUSE THEY LOOKING FOR

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

1:58:38 THE GOVERNMENT FUNDING HERE

1:58:40 JUST BECAUSE IT WAS LOOKING FOR

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

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

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

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

1:58:49 THE PLACE THAT THEY USED TO

1:58:50 LEAVE THE AREA THAT THEY USED

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

1:58:56 SO EVEN THOUGH THEY EVEN THOUGH

1:58:57 THEY DECIDED TO GO BACK THEY

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

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

1:59:02 HOUSE IS DESTROYED THE WAY THE

1:59:04 GOING TAKE THE COUNTRY, EVERY

1:59:05 AREA THEY OPERATE.

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

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

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

1:59:13 FOR PERMISSION.

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

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

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

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

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

1:59:23 YEARS TO SEND BACK TO THIS

1:59:25 COUNTRY.

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

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

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

1:59:32 BELONG.

1:59:32 THEY UNDERSTAND THAT BUT AS

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

1:59:36 ANYONE ANYONE TO GO THERE.

1:59:40 SO RECENTLY THERE WAS A WOMAN

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

1:59:44 SO TWO DAYS AFTER SHE GOT

1:59:45 KIDNAPED AND KILLED WHILE SHE

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

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

1:59:53 GET KIDNAPED BEEN KILLED.

1:59:56 SO IMAGINE THAT YOUR SISTER

2:00:01 HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT.

2:00:02 IMAGINE THAT YOUR BLOOD THEY

2:00:04 HAVE TO GO TO THAT.

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

2:00:09 GUYS CAN DO TO HELP THIS

2:00:12 COMMUNITY TO SURVIVE RIGHT NOW

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

2:00:16 DEPRESSION.

2:00:18 PEOPLE ARE FEAR.

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

2:00:20 CHURCH.

2:00:21 THEY CAN GO ANYWHERE AND NOW

2:00:23 THEY START LOSING HOUSE THAT

2:00:25 THEY THAT THEY PUT THAT THEY

2:00:27 WORK HARD FOR YEARS TO SAVE

2:00:30 MONEY AND THEY ABOUT TO LOSE

2:00:32 THOSE EFFORT.

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

2:00:36 THEY LEFT HAITI THEY COME HERE

2:00:38 TO START FROM ZERO.

2:00:39 AND UP.

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

2:00:41 BACK TO START FROM ZERO IN

2:00:42 OF HOW OLD THEY ARE.

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

2:00:46 CAN DO.

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

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

2:00:52 RESOLVED.

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

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

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

2:00:57 FEEL SAFE.

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

2:01:00 WHOLE DAY IN BROCKTON CREATING

2:01:03 FEAR IN THE COMMUNITY.

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

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

2:01:09 ALL.

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

2:01:12 ANYTHING TO ENFORCE THIS SO

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

2:01:14 DOWN.

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

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

2:01:18 DOWN.

2:01:19 SO THIS COMMUNITY THEY NEED

2:01:20 HELP.

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

2:01:24 SO THE COMMUNITY OF THE

2:01:26 COMMUNITY IS WATCHING.

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

2:01:29 WE ARE WATCHING.

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

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

2:01:36 SURVIVE THIS CRISIS?

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

2:01:41 COME HERE BY CHOICE.

2:01:43 WE COME HERE BY FORCE.

2:01:46 OUR LEADERS BACK HOME.

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

2:01:49 TIME THEY TAKE POWER.

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

2:01:52 GOVERNMENT ARE THE ONES WHO

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

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

2:01:57 OF HAITI.

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

2:02:00 THE REASON THE COUNTRY BECOME

2:02:02 WORSE AND WORSE AND WORSE AND

2:02:03 WORSE.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2:02:20 SEND THOSE BACK.

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

2:02:23 SCHOOL?

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

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

2:02:26 HAVE ANY INFRASTRUCTURE.

2:02:28 NOTHING AT ALL.

2:02:30 SO I KNOW THEY ARE TALKING

2:02:31 ABOUT ELECTION.

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

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

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

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

2:02:41 GOING TO PICK AND CHOOSE WHO

2:02:42 THEY NEED TO BE THE PRESIDENT

2:02:45 WHO THEY CAN HAVE EASY ACCESS

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

2:02:48 PLEASE WRAP UP.

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

2:02:55 SOMETHING RIGHT NOW.

2:02:56 TO HELP THE HAITIAN WHO LIVES

2:02:59 HERE IN IN BOSTON,

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

2:03:02 EMERGENCY.

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

2:03:04 THANK YOU.

2:03:04 THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.

2:03:06 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:03:14 THIS.

2:03:15 THOSE YOUNG.

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

2:03:19 THANK YOU.

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

2:03:22 MORONI.

2:03:22 WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE AND

2:03:24 MAKES YOU OBVIOUSLY HAS THIS

2:03:26 BACKLOG.

2:03:26 WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE RIGHT

2:03:28 NOW IN TERMS OF GETTING

2:03:29 ADDITIONAL THE NECESSARY

2:03:30 FUNDING FROM THE LEGISLATURE TO

2:03:33 FURTHER FUND AND SUPPORT AND

2:03:35 MAKE UM.

2:03:38 YEAH.

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

2:03:39 BACKLOG IS TOO MUCH.

2:03:41 SO WHAT ARE THE CONCERNS?

2:03:41 ARE THERE CONVERSATIONS

2:03:42 HAPPENING NOW TO HELP MITIGATE

2:03:43 SOME OF THAT BACKLOG?

2:03:44 YEAH I MEAN OBVIOUSLY IDEAL

2:03:48 IDEALLY WE WOULD LOVE TO PASS

2:03:50 THE BILL ITSELF RIGHT SO FOLKS

2:03:52 NEED TO UNDERSTAND MAY SEE IS

2:03:54 AN INITIATIVE THAT CAME OUT

2:03:55 OF THE IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE

2:03:57 ACT THAT MIRA IS PUSHING.

2:04:00 UM AND SO WHILE THE LEGISLATURE

2:04:04 HAS BEEN SLOW AND HESITANT TO

2:04:06 PASSING THE BILL, THEY HAVE

2:04:08 COMMITTED TO CONTINUE TO FUND

2:04:09 THE PROGRAM.

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

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

2:04:14 WE FEEL GOOD ABOUT.

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

2:04:19 WE START THE NEXT LEGISLATIVE

2:04:20 SESSION WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER

2:04:22 ASK FOR THE LEGISLATURE.

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

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

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

2:04:31 BACK TO THE LEGISLATURE WHEN

2:04:33 THIS SESSION STARTS AGAIN TO

2:04:34 ASK FOR HOPEFULLY TO DOUBLE UM

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

2:04:39 THOUGH WE ADVOCATE AND HAVE THE

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

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

2:04:44 CAN WE UTILIZE THIS FUNDING TO

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

2:04:47 FIELD BECAUSE EVEN WITH THE

2:04:49 FUNDING THERE'S HUGE SHORTAGE

2:04:51 OF LAWYERS.

2:04:52 THANK YOU.

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

2:04:54 TO QUICKLY MENTION.

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

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

2:05:01 WENT UH TO THE PORTAL AND

2:05:04 APPLIED BECAUSE THEY HAD ENOUGH

2:05:05 FOR THE MERCY BECAUSE THERE IS

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

2:05:09 THAT YOU NEED HELP.

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

2:05:12 MONTH AGO, RIGHT?

2:05:13 AND THEN THEIR APPOINTMENT WAS

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

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

2:05:17 TUESDAY.

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

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

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

2:05:24 FACILITATE THIS THING.

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

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

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

2:05:30 BEEN A MONTH.

2:05:31 AND SHE SAID UNFORTUNATELY NO.

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

2:05:35 THESE PEOPLE AND FIND OUT WHAT

2:05:36 WAS GOING ON.

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

2:05:38 APPOINTMENTS AND WE KNOW WHAT

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

2:05:43 LAWYER.

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

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

2:05:48 THE FOR THIS IDEA OF THINKING

2:05:50 OUTSIDE OF THE BOX BECAUSE EVEN

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

2:05:55 TALKING ABOUT NOW PEOPLE NEED

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

2:05:58 MONTHS.

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

2:06:01 RECEIVING LETTERS FOR THEM TO

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

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

2:06:06 ALMOST LIKE THEIR LIFE IS IN

2:06:08 DANGER BECAUSE THEY CANNOT FIND

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

2:06:12 GO WITH THEM.

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

2:06:15 HOW DO WE.

2:06:17 WIN OTHER RESOURCES ALONG WITH

2:06:19 MISSY TO SUPPORT DISABILITY

2:06:20 BECAUSE WE TALK ABOUT NEXT

2:06:22 MONTH.

2:06:22 WE TALKED ABOUT YESTERDAY THAT

2:06:23 THOSE PEOPLE NEEDED YOU KNOW,

2:06:25 LEGAL SUPPORT.

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

2:06:27 ABOUT FUNDING.

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

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

2:06:32 REALLY HAVE OTHERS TO COME AND

2:06:33 JOIN IN SUPPORT WITH FAMILIES.

2:06:35 YEAH.

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

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

2:06:38 LIKE WE CAN'T LET ANYONE FALL

2:06:39 THROUGH THE CRACKS.

2:06:39 YEAH.

2:06:40 WE GOTTA BY HOOK OR BY CROOK

2:06:41 FIND PEOPLE THAT DO THIS IN

2:06:43 THESE SITUATIONS.

2:06:44 I'M WONDERING, UM, A DOJ

2:06:46 ACCREDITATION IS ALSO SOMETHING

2:06:48 THAT WE'VE BEEN LOOKING INTO.

2:06:49 I THINK YOU TOUCHED ON IT TOO,

2:06:50 MORONI.

2:06:52 YEAH.

2:06:53 OR DOJ ACCREDITATION SO THAT

2:06:55 THERE'S NOT JUST BEYOND IT

2:06:56 COULD JUST BE BEYOND LAWYERS

2:06:57 RIGHT BECAUSE THERE'S.

2:06:58 SO YEAH YEAH YEAH EXACTLY.

2:06:59 SO I MEAN YEAH DOJ ACQUISITION

2:07:02 IS IS ONE OF THE UM UH MORE

2:07:06 EFFICIENT WAY FOR US TO SUPPORT

2:07:07 FAMILIES ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY

2:07:09 CAN BE SUPERVISED BY AN

2:07:11 ATTORNEY.

2:07:11 SO YOU COULD HAVE SIX, SEVEN,

2:07:13 TEN, YOU KNOW, UH, DOG EQUITY

2:07:15 PEOPLE WITH ONE SUPERVISOR AS

2:07:18 LONG AS THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT TO

2:07:19 DO, THEY CAN HELP A LOT

2:07:21 OF FAMILIES.

2:07:21 SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE

2:07:22 HAVE TO REALLY BE THINKING

2:07:24 ABOUT OUTSIDE OF THE BOX TO

2:07:25 BRING MORE RESOURCES TO A

2:07:27 COMMUNITY THAT IS REALLY IN

2:07:28 DIRE NEED.

2:07:29 YEAH.

2:07:29 AND I'M GOING TO PIGGYBACK

2:07:30 OFF OF SOMETHING THAT YOU SAID

2:07:31 THAT YOU SAID THERE WERE LIKE

2:07:33 YOU SAID THERE ARE NO RULES

2:07:35 THERE THERE AREN'T ENOUGH

2:07:36 RESOURCES OR YOU SAID THERE YOU

2:07:38 SAID IT IN A WAY IS LIKE WE

2:07:39 DON'T NEED THE MONEY BUT LIKE

2:07:41 WE DO ACTUALLY.

2:07:42 NEED THE RESOURCES.

2:07:43 THERE'S NEVER GOING TO BE

2:07:44 ENOUGH TO LIKE OH YEAH FULL

2:07:46 EXTENT OF YES.

2:07:46 OH YEAH.

2:07:47 UM AND SO YOU TALKED ABOUT

2:07:49 THE HUMAN ELEMENT BUT I DO

2:07:51 THINK I DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW IF

2:07:52 PEOPLE REALLY UNDERSTAND LIKE I

2:07:54 DON'T THINK THAT UNLESS YOU ARE

2:07:57 IN THE THICK OF IT THAT YOU

2:07:59 UNDERSTAND.

2:07:59 MHM.

2:08:00 LIKE WE ARE REALLY LITERALLY

2:08:02 TALKING ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH ON

2:08:03 ONE OF THE 4 P.M. CALLS.

2:08:05 I COULDN'T BE ON THE CALL

2:08:06 BECAUSE WE WERE HAVING A

2:08:07 COUNCIL MEETING.

2:08:08 UM YOU KNOW MY CHIEF OF STAFF

2:08:11 TEXTED ME WHO WAS ON THE CALL

2:08:12 AND SAID OH MY GOSH A WOMAN IN

2:08:15 ANOTHER STATE JUST DRINK A

2:08:17 PREGNANT WOMAN JUST DRINK A

2:08:19 BOTTLE OF BLEACH.

2:08:20 OH YEAH BECAUSE SHE LOST HER

2:08:21 STATS WE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SO

2:08:23 I MEAN AND I ALSO WANT TO SAY

2:08:26 BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF FEAR

2:08:27 MONGERING THAT GOES AROUND WITH

2:08:28 THIS ALL THE TIME THAT WE ARE

2:08:29 TALKING ABOUT BOSTON RESIDENTS.

2:08:30 YEAH WE WERE TALKING ABOUT

2:08:31 PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN HERE FOR

2:08:34 YEARS WHO DRIVE OUR BUSSES, WHO

2:08:36 WORK IN VARIOUS JOBS, HEALTH

2:08:38 CARE, TRANSPORTATION

2:08:40 ENTREPRENEURS.

2:08:41 SO WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE WHEN

2:08:43 FOLKS COME TO YOU WITH THOSE

2:08:44 VERY HUMAN VERY REAL NEEDS?

2:08:46 YEAH.

2:08:46 I MEAN I ALWAYS SAY TO PEOPLE

2:08:48 THAT WE CAN ONLY DO THIS JOB BY

2:08:52 GRACE BECAUSE UH, OUR TEAM OUR

2:08:54 STAFF BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE DAY

2:08:57 THAT'S WHAT WE DO.

2:08:58 WE MEET DIRECTLY WITH PEOPLE IN

2:08:59 PERSON OR ON THE PHONE.

2:09:01 WE WE HAVE YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE.

2:09:03 NOWHERE ELSE TO TURN.

2:09:04 YEAH YEAH EXACTLY.

2:09:05 THEY HAVE NO AND THEY ARE

2:09:07 COUNTING ON US TO GIVE THEM YOU

2:09:09 KNOW, JUST KIND OF A WORD.

2:09:11 OF HOPE.

2:09:11 AND SO OFTEN WHEN YOU CANNOT

2:09:14 EVEN.

2:09:14 FIND HOW.

2:09:15 TO EVEN SAY SOMETHING IT IS

2:09:17 VERY PAINFUL.

2:09:18 IN FACT WE WERE GOING TO

2:09:19 ORGANIZE A MENTAL HEALTH

2:09:21 RETREAT NOT ONLY FOR OUR STAFF

2:09:22 WITH SOME OF THE COMMITTEE

2:09:23 LEADERS AS A WAY FOR THEM TO

2:09:25 UNDERSTAND HOW TO.

2:09:26 TAKE.

2:09:26 CARE OF THEMSELVES FIRST SO

2:09:28 THEY CAN TAKE CARE OF OTHERS.

2:09:29 SO THIS IS NOT, YOU KNOW, A JOB

2:09:31 FOR THE FAINT HEARTED BECAUSE

2:09:32 AGAIN, IT TAKES A LOT OF YOU TO

2:09:35 DO THIS WORK MEETING FAMILIES.

2:09:36 YOU KNOW A YOUNG MAN HE'S ABOUT

2:09:39 TO TURN 21 AND MOM WAS WAITING

2:09:41 FOR THAT YOUNG MAN TO TURN 21

2:09:43 BECAUSE SO THAT THEY CAN APPLY

2:09:45 UH, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE AGAIN HE

2:09:46 WAS BORN HERE AND THEN AS YOU

2:09:48 KNOW, THE BIRTHDAY WAS COMING

2:09:49 AND THEN THE IDEA OF HOPE WAS

2:09:52 COMING FOR THE FAMILY AND DO

2:09:53 YOUNG MEAN I DON'T EVEN KNOW

2:09:54 THAT I WANT TO DO THAT.

2:09:56 IT IS SO PAINFUL TO LIVE HERE.

2:09:58 IT'S IT'S SO PAINFUL TO BE IT'S

2:10:00 ALMOST LIKE THE YOUNG MAN

2:10:02 ALTHOUGH WAS BORN HERE WAS

2:10:04 GOING TO TURN 21.

2:10:05 TO HELP THE MOM AT.

2:10:07 THE POINT OF YOU KNOW, HOPE HE

2:10:10 FELT SO DISCOURAGED BUT BY WHAT

2:10:12 HE'S SEEING OUT THERE.

2:10:13 SO IT'S EVERY DAY THAT OUR.

2:10:16 UH, MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDER IS

2:10:17 THEY HAVE TO SIT DOWN WITH

2:10:19 FAMILIES IN TEARS.

2:10:21 SHARING THE PAIN TO BURDEN THE

2:10:24 SHAME THAT THE KILLING

2:10:25 ESPECIALLY YOU REMEMBER WHEN WE

2:10:26 TALK ABOUT IMMIGRANT FAMILIES

2:10:27 THERE IS THIS PRIDE WHEN YOU

2:10:29 FINALLY CAN GET A KEY TO YOUR

2:10:31 OWN APARTMENT.

2:10:32 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN FOR YOU TO

2:10:34 FIND YOURSELF DELINDA CALLING

2:10:36 YOU YOU KNOW WHAT?

2:10:36 YOU WOULD BE OUT.

2:10:37 YOU'D BE OUT WITH NO OTHER

2:10:39 PLACE TO GO FOR YOU TO THINK

2:10:41 THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE ON THE

2:10:42 STREET.

2:10:42 THINK ABOUT THE PRIDE OF A

2:10:44 FAMILY YOU KNOW, WITH CHILDREN

2:10:46 GIVING THEM HOPE THAT MONEY IS

2:10:47 GOING TO DO THE BEST THAT IS

2:10:48 GOING TO BE.

2:10:49 BUT NOW WE'RE THINKING ABOUT

2:10:50 GOING BACK TO THE SWEET.

2:10:51 THAT'S THE REASON WHY.

2:10:52 YOU KNOW IF WE DON'T ACT.

2:10:54 FAST PEOPLE ARE GOING.

2:10:56 TO FALL INTO DESPAIR.

2:10:57 AND THE CONSEQUENCES ARE

2:10:58 SOMETHING THAT WE WILL BE

2:11:00 FEELING FOR YEARS TO COME.

2:11:02 SO THAT'S DO SOMETHING IN

2:11:03 MENTAL.

2:11:03 HEALTH QUITE NOT IS A BIG THING

2:11:05 THAT WE NEED TO PAY ATTENTION.

2:11:06 NO YOU ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.

2:11:08 IT IS IT IS IT IS A LOT IT

2:11:10 IS A LOT TO.

2:11:11 ONE MORE QUESTION THEN WE'LL

2:11:12 MOVE TO THAT'S A WEAPON THAT

2:11:16 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FINISH AND

2:11:16 THEN WE'LL COME TO YOU.

2:11:18 THANK YOU BRIAN I'M WONDERING

2:11:20 IF YOU COULD TALK A LITTLE BIT

2:11:21 MORE THE LONG TERM STRATEGY

2:11:24 AROUND THIS TPL THIS EFFORT I

2:11:27 KNOW WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

2:11:29 UM, HOW ARE WE USING THIS, YOU

2:11:31 KNOW, UPLIFTING YOU KNOW THE

2:11:33 RECENT MEETING BETWEEN

2:11:35 PRESIDENT TRUMP AND MAYOR

2:11:36 MAMDANI LIKE HOW IS THIS ALL

2:11:38 GOING TO WORK TOGETHER?

2:11:39 YOU KNOW AND I KNOW THERE ARE

2:11:41 EFFORTS IN THE FALL ABOUT WHO

2:11:42 GOING TO BE LEADING THE HOUSE

2:11:43 THEREAFTER.

2:11:44 IF YOU COULD TALK A LITTLE

2:11:45 ABOUT YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I GET

2:11:47 THESE CALLS FROM PEOPLE ABOUT

2:11:48 LIKE WHY IS THIS YOUR FOCUS?

2:11:51 BECAUSE PRESIDENT TRUMP

2:11:53 ULTIMATELY HAS VETO POWER.

2:11:55 IT'S GOING TO BE HARD TO GET 13

2:11:57 REPUBLICANS TO SIGN ON.

2:11:58 I THINK YOU DID INCREDIBLE

2:11:59 FRAMING.

2:11:59 NO ONE THOUGHT THE DISCHARGE

2:12:01 PETITION WAS GOING TO GO

2:12:02 THROUGH.

2:12:03 I REMEMBER BEING ON THE PHONE

2:12:04 WITH CONGRESSWOMAN PRESSLEY AT

2:12:06 MIDNIGHT THE NIGHT THAT THAT

2:12:07 BILL IT WAS JUST CRYING.

2:12:10 UM, NO ONE BELIEVED THAT IT WAS

2:12:13 GOING TO HAPPEN AND THERE WERE

2:12:14 PEOPLE WHO WERE PART OF THE

2:12:15 COALITION.

2:12:16 IF YOU ARE A MEMBER.

2:12:17 OH OH YOU DIDN'T.

2:12:18 BELIEVE WITH LAST MINUTE WAS

2:12:20 SAYING LIKE WE DON'T KNOW.

2:12:21 IF THIS IS THE MOMENT.

2:12:23 SO I'M WONDERING UM BRIAN

2:12:25 DOCTOR GOBBO, IF YOU COULD TALK

2:12:27 ABOUT SORT OF THE THE STRATEGY

2:12:29 AND WHY PEOPLE SHOULD BELIEVE

2:12:30 IN IT.

2:12:31 AND SO SO I WAS ONE OF THE

2:12:33 PEOPLE CONFESSION.

2:12:34 OH I REMEMBER TALKING TO Y'ALL

2:12:36 AND HAVING TO TALK TO OUR

2:12:38 CONGRESSWOMAN AND THIS IS WHAT

2:12:39 THE COALITION IS SAYING AND

2:12:40 CONGRESSMAN LIKE BELIEVE WE GOT

2:12:42 THIS AND SHE HAD US SO.

2:12:44 BECAUSE THERE WAS YOU KNOW SO

2:12:45 MUCH AGAINST US AND THAT

2:12:47 ORIGINALLY AND IT WAS PROBABLY

2:12:48 LIKE NOVEMBER OF LAST YEAR WHEN

2:12:49 ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES SAID LET'S

2:12:50 DO THIS.

2:12:51 I SAID I SAID WE CAN'T.

2:12:52 PUT TOO.

2:12:53 MANY RESOURCES.

2:12:53 WE'RE STRETCHED SO THIN AND

2:12:55 IT'S JUST NOT REALISTIC ENOUGH

2:12:56 .

2:12:57 UM, AND WHAT HAPPENED WAS WE

2:12:59 STARTED WORKING TOGETHER AND

2:13:00 KIND OF WE KNOW EACH OTHER AND

2:13:03 THE EXCITEMENT OF COLLABORATING

2:13:05 KIND OF GOT PEOPLE TOGETHER AND

2:13:07 THEN OBVIOUSLY THE VISIONARY

2:13:08 LEADERSHIP OF REPRESENTATIVE

2:13:10 PRESSLEY.

2:13:10 BUT ANOTHER KEY COMPONENT.

2:13:12 WAS THAT THE POLITICAL.

2:13:13 WINDS SHIFTED.

2:13:15 PRECIPITOUSLY AND SO AMERICANS

2:13:18 WERE OKAY WITH DEPORTING

2:13:20 HAITIANS WHEN WHEN THEY THOUGHT

2:13:22 OF HAITIANS AS AS ABSTRACT AND

2:13:26 AS CRIMINALS.

2:13:27 YET THE ADMINISTRATION WAS

2:13:30 DEFINING WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN

2:13:32 NOVEMBER OF LAST YEAR AND

2:13:33 PROBABLY APRIL AND MARCH AND

2:13:36 APRIL.

2:13:38 OF THIS YEAR WAS THAT PEOPLE

2:13:40 REALIZED THAT THEY WEREN'T

2:13:41 THESE KIND OF ABSTRACT

2:13:43 CRIMINALS.

2:13:43 THEY WERE THE PEOPLE TAKING

2:13:44 CARE OF THEIR MOTHER.

2:13:45 THEY WERE THE PEOPLE WHO WERE

2:13:47 DRIVING THEIR BUS OR SERVING

2:13:48 THEM FOOD.

2:13:48 OR DOING.

2:13:49 YOU KNOW, ANY OF.

2:13:50 THE.

2:13:51 MILLIONS OF THINGS THAT THAT

2:13:52 THAT ASIAN TPS HOLDERS WERE

2:13:54 DOING AND THAT COMPLETELY

2:13:56 SHIFTED THE POLITICAL WINDS AND

2:13:57 NOW THERE'S CLEAR MAJORITIES,

2:13:59 EVEN STRONG SUPPORT AMONG

2:14:01 REPUBLICANS FOR NOT DEPORTING

2:14:02 NOT DEPORTING HAITIANS.

2:14:04 AND THEN THE POLLS ALWAYS SAY

2:14:05 THE SAME THING AND EVEN

2:14:07 INDIVIDUALS WHO SAY OH YEAH, WE

2:14:08 WANT TO GET RID OF THE

2:14:09 CRIMINALS.

2:14:10 WE DON'T WANT TO GET RID OF THE

2:14:11 PEOPLE WHO DO.

2:14:11 RIGHT.

2:14:12 AND YOU KNOW, THE VAST, VAST

2:14:13 MAJORITY OF ASIAN TPS HOLDERS

2:14:15 ARE FIT IN THE CATEGORY

2:14:17 OF DOING THINGS RIGHT.

2:14:17 AND SO.

2:14:18 THAT'S.

2:14:19 A POLITICAL REALITY THAT THE

2:14:20 REPUBLICAN PARTY IS FACED WITH

2:14:21 AND WHAT DHS IS NOW DOING DHS

2:14:25 IS.

2:14:26 IS TRYING TO NAVIGATE BETWEEN

2:14:29 PUBLIC OPINION AND THERE AND

2:14:31 WANTING TO REPUBLICANS WANTING

2:14:33 TO WIN ELECTIONS AND THE

2:14:34 STEPHEN MILLER WAY WHICH IS YOU

2:14:36 KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WHITE

2:14:37 SUPREMACIST AND IS NEVER GOING

2:14:38 TO CHANGE.

2:14:39 SO THEY'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE

2:14:40 FIGHTING YELLING THAT WE NEED

2:14:41 TO DEPORT MORE HAITIANS.

2:14:43 BUT BUT THERE ALSO IS.

2:14:44 PUBLIC OPINION THAT IS STRONG

2:14:46 AND GROWING STRONGER AGAINST

2:14:47 THESE AND WE CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE

2:14:49 OF THAT AND THE.

2:14:51 THE THE.

2:14:52 DISCHARGE PETITION DID THE

2:14:53 CURRENT UM CURRENT SENATE BILL

2:14:56 DOES AND YES, IT'S POSSIBLE.

2:14:59 THAT THE THAT.

2:14:59 THE ADMINISTRATION THAT THE

2:15:00 PRESIDENT CAN UH CAN VETO IT

2:15:02 THAT'S GOING TO BE A HARD

2:15:04 CHOICE FOR HIM TO MAKE BECAUSE

2:15:04 THAT'S GOING TO HURT HIS HIS

2:15:06 HIS APPROVAL RATINGS EVEN MORE.

2:15:08 AND THERE'S.

2:15:09 ALSO THIS IS A THIS COULD.

2:15:10 LITERALLY MAKE THE DIFFERENCE

2:15:11 BETWEEN CONTROL OF THE SENATE

2:15:13 I.

2:15:13 MEAN SUSAN COLLINS DISTRICT

2:15:15 ALONE.

2:15:15 OR JOHN.

2:15:16 HUSTON'S DISTRICT ALONE.

2:15:17 COULD BE THE DIFFERENCE

2:15:18 BETWEEN, YOU KNOW, 51 DEMOCRATS

2:15:21 IN THE SENATE OR 50 WHICH IS

2:15:23 MAKES ALL.

2:15:23 THE.

2:15:24 DIFFERENCE TO THE PRESIDENT.

2:15:25 AND SO WE CAN LEVERAGE THIS

2:15:26 REALLY IMPORTANT WAYS AND THEN

2:15:28 WE KEEP FIGHTING.

2:15:29 IF WE DON'T WIN THEN WE KEEP

2:15:30 FIGHTING IN THE NEW CONGRESS

2:15:31 WHICH MAY HAVE.

2:15:33 UH REPUBLICAN OR.

2:15:33 DEMOCRAT MAJORITY ONE OR BOTH

2:15:35 HOUSES.

2:15:35 DOCTOR GABEL YEAH.

2:15:37 AND I WAS GOING TO SAY ALSO

2:15:38 THIS IS WHAT WE CALL THE POWER

2:15:39 OF YOU KNOW.

2:15:42 UH.

2:15:42 WORKING TOGETHER AND THIS IS

2:15:43 ALSO THE POWER OF THIEF.

2:15:44 UH, DO YOU THINK I'M SEEING THE

2:15:46 POWER OF I REMEMBER WHEN WE IN

2:15:48 SO MANY QUARTERS IN THEM UH, A

2:15:50 COUPLE OF PEOPLE SAID OH NO,

2:15:52 THIS IS NOT GOING TO PASS.

2:15:53 AND I'M.

2:15:53 LIKE WHY NOT?

2:15:54 BECAUSE IF WE ARE DOING IT,

2:15:56 WE'RE DOING IT BECAUSE WE KNOW

2:15:57 WE BELIEVE.

2:15:58 THAT IT COULD HAPPEN.

2:15:59 SO WHEN WE PUT OUR HEARTS.

2:16:01 TOGETHER ESPECIALLY.

2:16:02 FIGHTING EVIL.

2:16:03 AND WE PUT OUR MIND OUR HEARTS

2:16:06 TOGETHER TO GET TO A MIRACLE

2:16:08 HAPPEN.

2:16:08 SO THAT'S THE REASON WHAT I

2:16:09 SAID I WILL NEVER DURING A

2:16:10 FIGHT IF I'M NOT.

2:16:12 SURE THAT WE CAN WIN.

2:16:14 SO IN THE SAME WAY THAT WE

2:16:15 FOUGHT FOR THE DISCHARGE

2:16:15 PETITION, THAT'S THE SAME

2:16:17 FERVOR THAT WE WANT TO SEE ALL

2:16:18 CAUSE THAT.

2:16:19 PEOPLE FIGHT WITH.

2:16:21 THIS IDEA THAT YES WE CAN WIN

2:16:23 AND AS YOU ARE GOING TO YOU

2:16:25 YOU'RE SEEING UH,

2:16:26 COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU KNOW.

2:16:27 WHEN WE ARE FOCUSING ON.

2:16:29 SOMETHING BEFORE WE.

2:16:30 KNOW WITH SO MANY.

2:16:31 OTHER OPPORTUNITIES COME OUR

2:16:33 WAY LIKE.

2:16:33 THINKING ABOUT MY FRIENDS.

2:16:35 IN OHIO WHEN I WENT.

2:16:37 TO COLLEGE WITH WHO I WAS

2:16:39 PLAYING GOLF WITH INSULIN.

2:16:41 BEFORE YOU KNOW, WITH THOSE

2:16:42 PEOPLE ARE COMING INTO MINE AND

2:16:44 THEN WE REACH.

2:16:45 OUT TO.

2:16:45 THEM AND THEY CAN SUPPORT.

2:16:47 SO THAT'S THE REASON WHY.

2:16:48 WHEN WE PUT OUR.

2:16:49 STRIP TOGETHER, YOU KNOW.

2:16:51 OH MINE ARE HOT TOGETHER FOR

2:16:53 SOMETHING THAT IS SO POSITIVE.

2:16:55 BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT

2:16:55 PEOPLE.

2:16:56 WITH LIVES.

2:16:57 YOU KNOW, AGAINST EVIL GUESS

2:16:58 WHAT?

2:16:59 WE ALWAYS.

2:17:00 WIN AND.

2:17:00 THAT'S THE REASON WHY I

2:17:01 WANT.

2:17:01 EVERYONE TO GO TO THIS FIGHT.

2:17:03 WITH THIS IDEA THAT YES WE WILL

2:17:06 WIN BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE

2:17:07 DAY IT'S ABOUT PROTECTING

2:17:08 PEOPLE, PROTECTING LIVES,

2:17:10 PROTECTING CHILDREN SO WE

2:17:12 NEVER.

2:17:12 WAIT FOR EVIL.

2:17:13 BUT THE LORD MEANT IT FOR GOOD.

2:17:15 EXACTLY.

2:17:15 SO WHENEVER WE'VE GOT UH I

2:17:17 THINK WE HAVE TWO MORE FOLKS

2:17:19 THAT WANT TO TALK.

2:17:20 IS ANYONE ON ZOOM WHO'S READY

2:17:26 TO TESTIFY NOW?

2:17:36 I T UH EDA.

2:17:40 WILSON LOUISE.

2:17:42 WELL THIS IS.

2:17:43 HELLO, FELLAS.

2:17:44 I'M IN MY CAR SO I AND AT FIVE

2:17:47 MINUTES.

2:17:48 WILSON.

2:17:49 OKAY.

2:17:49 AND THANK YOU FOR GIVING

2:17:50 ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO, UH,

2:17:51 TESTIFY, UH, SHARE A COPY AND

2:17:54 I'M VERY GRATEFUL TO BE HERE.

2:17:55 I'M WE JUST WANT TO TELL HIM

2:17:56 WHAT WEEK I'M A MEMBER OF THE

2:17:58 TASK FORCE POLITICAL, UH,

2:17:59 OF THE UH, BMT WHICH IS, UH,

2:18:01 THE TASK FORCE, UH, THE BLACK

2:18:03 MEN POLITICAL TASK FORCE AND

2:18:04 I'M ALSO THE UH, CEO OF 82 MY

2:18:06 ORGANIZATION NAME IT HAITI.

2:18:10 SO I WAS AT YOUR LAST HEARING

2:18:12 ABOUT THE TPS, UH, HAITIAN TPO

2:18:14 SERVICE FOR PEOPLE BACK IN

2:18:17 APRIL.

2:18:17 BUT TODAY I WOULD LIKE TO READ

2:18:19 TO ITS, UM, KEY POINT THAT I

2:18:21 ALREADY DISCUSSED WITH YOU GUYS

2:18:23 AND I THINK THE US IS NOW BEING

2:18:25 SEEN AS A COUNTRY THAT IS

2:18:27 EXPOSE OR EXPOSE YOUNG LADIES,

2:18:30 YOUNG PEOPLE LIKE US I OR

2:18:34 FEMALE TO EXPLOITATION.

2:18:35 SO I AM ASSUMING THAT YOU

2:18:37 UNDERSTAND WHAT IT'S MEAN WHEN

2:18:40 YOU HAVE YOUNG LADIES THESE

2:18:42 DAYS.

2:18:43 WHO DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO A JOB

2:18:45 OR CANNOT EVEN GO TO SCHOOL.

2:18:47 SO IN ORDER FOR THEM TO SURVIVE

2:18:49 THEY HAVE TO SELL THEMSELF.

2:18:51 SO I THINK THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT

2:18:52 THE US IS TRADING NOW I DON'T

2:18:54 KNOW IF IT'S A GOOD REPUTATION

2:18:55 FOR US AS AMERICAN AS A GREAT

2:18:58 COUNTRY IN THIS WORLD.

2:18:59 SO THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I TBS

2:19:01 HOLDERS LIKE WHO LOST THEIR JOB

2:19:04 I EXPERIENCING RIGHT NOW AND

2:19:06 ALSO SOME OF THEM ARE BEING

2:19:07 EXPOSED TO TO UNDER THE TABLE

2:19:11 JOBS AND WHICH HAVE THEM EVEN

2:19:13 WORK FOR $4 AN HOUR BECAUSE

2:19:16 THEY HAVE TO SURVIVE.

2:19:17 THEY HAVE TO EVEN SEND SOME

2:19:18 MONEY BACK HOME AND EVEN

2:19:21 SUSTAIN THEMSELVES IN THE US.

2:19:23 AND THE SECOND ASPECT I WOULD

2:19:24 LIKE YOU TO HIGHLIGHT IN YOUR

2:19:26 ADVOCACY APPROACH IS UH, IMPACT

2:19:29 ON AMERICAN LIVES.

2:19:31 I BELIEVE EVEN HER SPEAKING

2:19:32 HERE SHE IS ALSO AFFECTED BY

2:19:35 THESE US UH BY THE UH TPS

2:19:38 HOLDER STATUS RIGHT NOW AS

2:19:40 ME ALSO I AM AMONG THE UH

2:19:44 FAMILIES OR WHAT PEOPLE IN THIS

2:19:46 COUNTRY THROUGH THIS TPS

2:19:48 PROGRAM WHICH I BELIEVE I PUT

2:19:50 FIVE PEOPLE HERE FROM THIS

2:19:52 PROGRAM.

2:19:53 IT'S VERY STRESS ON ME BECAUSE

2:19:56 THESE PEOPLE NOW THEY LOST

2:19:58 THEIR JOB AND THEY HAVE TO

2:19:59 LEAVE AND THEY DON'T WANT TO GO

2:20:01 BACK HOME BECAUSE IT'S FARCICAL

2:20:02 VIDEO AND MY GRANDMA SHE'S LIKE

2:20:06 79 SHE DOESN'T WANT TO GO BACK

2:20:08 TO HAITI BECAUSE SHE SAID OKAY,

2:20:09 THERE IS NO FOOD OVER HERE AND

2:20:10 WHEN I'M SICK I'M NOT BEING

2:20:11 ABLE TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL.

2:20:13 SO ALL.

2:20:13 OF THESE ARE ON OUR SHOULDER.

2:20:16 FAMILY STRESS NOW RELY ON US AS

2:20:19 AMERICAN FAMILY EVEN YOU GUYS

2:20:21 EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE NOT HERE YOU

2:20:22 DON'T HAVE ANY ASIAN BY GOING

2:20:24 YOU ALSO MAY NOT BE AFFECTED BY

2:20:26 THIS TUMOR IN THIS COUNTRY.

2:20:28 AND THE THIRD THING I WOULD

2:20:30 LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT IS UH IF WE

2:20:33 LOVE TO BACK PHILANTHROPIC

2:20:35 APPROACH FROM YOU GUYS I

2:20:37 UNDERSTAND YOU'VE BEEN SPENDING

2:20:39 A LOT OF TIME BY PROVIDING

2:20:41 THESE PEOPLE WITH UM, SHORT

2:20:43 TERM THE LIKE FOOD UH, SHARE

2:20:46 OUT HERE.

2:20:47 SO I'M WONDERING ALSO IF THERE

2:20:49 IS NO POSSIBILITY.

2:20:51 TO HELP THESE PEOPLE GET INTO

2:20:54 TRAINING WHILE YOU ARE WINNING

2:20:56 FOR YOUR TRANSITION OR FOR THE

2:20:57 WORK PERMIT, IS THERE ANY WAY

2:20:59 THIS CITY CAN HELP THIS

2:21:01 CATEGORY OF PEOPLE THESE YOUNG

2:21:03 PEOPLE FAMILY TO.

2:21:06 AT.

2:21:06 LEAST SPEND SOME TIMES INTO

2:21:08 TRAINING SO THEY CAN STUDY

2:21:11 SOMETHING TRADE PROGRAM AND

2:21:12 WHEN THEY GET THE WORK PERMIT

2:21:13 SO THEY CAN UH WE START ON THE

2:21:15 WORK PLACE AND ALSO I WOULD

2:21:18 LIKE TO ADDRESS THE ARTICLE

2:21:20 FIRST OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE

2:21:22 THAT I THINK THE US ALSO

2:21:24 ACKNOWLEDGE BACK IN DECEMBER UH

2:21:27 1948 WHICH SAYS THAT EVERY

2:21:29 HUMAN IS EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW.

2:21:32 SO AS A HUMAN I THINK WE EACH

2:21:35 OTHER SHOULD UM, PARTICIPATE IN

2:21:39 MAKING OR.

2:21:40 EAT UM EAT INSIDE EACH OTHER'S

2:21:43 LIFE BETTER INSTEAD OF TRYING

2:21:46 TO ENSLAVE SOME PEOPLE.

2:21:48 YOU SHOULD REMEMBER THAT FOLKS

2:21:50 HAITI IS THE FIRST BLACK

2:21:52 INDEPENDENT COUNTRY IN THIS

2:21:53 WORLD AND I'M THINKING THAT

2:21:55 HAITI IS BECOMING NOW.

2:21:57 THE NEWEST.

2:21:59 NATION SLAVE.

2:22:01 SLAVE NATION.

2:22:02 I THINK THE US IS TRYING TO PUT

2:22:04 HAITI AGAIN IN SLAVE WE YOU

2:22:06 THINK THAT'S A GOOD INVITATION

2:22:07 FOR YOU FOR YOU GUYS TO WIN ON

2:22:10 YOU TO LIKE TO CELEBRATE

2:22:11 HISTORY.

2:22:12 THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON

2:22:13 RIGHT NOW IF YOU ARE LIKE

2:22:15 FOLLOWING THE NEWS LIKE HOW A

2:22:18 HAITIAN PRESIDENT WAS KILLED

2:22:19 AND THE U.S. HASN'T BEEN.

2:22:21 INVOLVED FROM ALL DIGGING.

2:22:23 INTO THE GUNS.

2:22:24 THAT'S GOING.

2:22:25 TO HAITI NOW THE MOST OF THEM

2:22:26 HAVE COME FROM THE EU TODAY UH,

2:22:28 THE US WHEN THEY KILL THE

2:22:29 PRESIDENT IT'S MADE IN THE U.S

2:22:31 WE DON'T MAKE GUNS IN HAITI

2:22:33 PEOPLE IT'S LIKE YOU ARE LIVING

2:22:35 IN A.

2:22:35 FAMILY WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE A.

2:22:36 MOM.

2:22:37 YOU DON'T HAVE A DAD.

2:22:38 WHAT SHOULD YOU DO IN HAITI

2:22:39 WE DON'T HAVE A CITY COUNCIL.

2:22:41 WE DON'T HAVE ANY CITY

2:22:42 COUNCIL LIVE EVEN THE LOWEST

2:22:43 PART OF THE UH PUBLIC

2:22:45 ADMINISTRATION WE DON'T HAVE

2:22:46 THAT IN HAITI RIGHT NOW.

2:22:47 WE DON'T HAVE MAYORS.

2:22:48 WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY.

2:22:49 WE DON'T.

2:22:50 HAVE SENATOR.

2:22:50 WE DON'T HAVE THE PRESIDENT.

2:22:51 SO HOW COME WE DON'T HAVE A

2:22:53 FAMILY THEN YOU GO TO YOUR

2:22:55 NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE AND NOW

2:22:56 THEY'RE KICKING YOU OUT AND

2:22:58 EVEN THEY WON'T GIVE YOU ON IN

2:23:00 BLOCKING YOUR HOUSE JUST LIKE.

2:23:02 MY.

2:23:03 MY MY MY FELLOW COLLEAGUE WAS

2:23:04 SAYING IN HER TESTIMONY.

2:23:06 MY WHAT HAPPENED?

2:23:07 SHE WAS ME.

2:23:09 UM.

2:23:09 MISTER LOUIS, PLEASE WRAP UP.

2:23:12 OKAY.

2:23:14 ARE FREE.

2:23:15 LEGAL LAWYERS GUYS, YOU ARE PUT

2:23:18 IN YOUR, UH, SPEECHES I THINK I

2:23:21 AM ALSO AS I TOLD YOU IT

2:23:23 PARENTS WHO WELCOME TPS UH,

2:23:25 FAMILY HERE UM, I I'M ASSUMING

2:23:28 I'M NOT ASSUMING I EXPERIENCE

2:23:29 IT.

2:23:30 WE SHOULD PROBABLY.

2:23:31 HAVE MORE RESOURCES BECAUSE I

2:23:33 LOOK FOR RESOURCES FOR THESE

2:23:34 PEOPLE.

2:23:35 THEY COULD FIND RESOURCE THEY.

2:23:36 DON'T KNOW.

2:23:37 WE CAN'T USE LAWYERS.

2:23:38 THEY LIKE TO TURN AROUND UNTIL

2:23:40 THEY NEVER HELP YOU.

2:23:41 AND ALSO.

2:23:44 UM, I THINK THIS WOULD BE MY

2:23:46 LAST APPROACH.

2:23:47 UM.

2:23:50 I DON'T KNOW I KNOW YOU YOU CAN

2:23:51 DO.

2:23:52 THAT AS A CITY.

2:23:54 TO SEE HOW YOU CAN.

2:23:55 IMPLEMENT SOME PROGRAM TO

2:24:00 ENCOURAGE, UM.

2:24:02 INCLUSION IN THIS CITY.

2:24:04 IN THIS CITY OR IN THIS STATE.

2:24:06 BECAUSE UM AS NEW IMMIGRANT

2:24:08 WHEN YOU COME.

2:24:09 TO IT WHEN WE COME TO THE

2:24:10 COUNTRY WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO

2:24:11 NAVIGATE.

2:24:12 THE COUNTRY.

2:24:12 SO I KNOW THERE'S THERE ARE A.

2:24:13 LOT OF PROGRAMS THAT CAN WILL

2:24:15 COME US BUT.

2:24:16 WE DON'T WANT TO.

2:24:18 GO TO THIS PROGRAM.

2:24:20 IS THERE A WAY.

2:24:21 YOU CAN HAVE SOME OUTREACH

2:24:22 OUTREACH?

2:24:23 UH, PEOPLE.

2:24:24 THAT COULD GO TO THESE PEOPLE

2:24:25 TO GET THEM.

2:24:26 INTO SOME UH, PROGRAM TO

2:24:29 ENCOURAGE INCLUSION AND SOCIAL

2:24:31 COHESION.

2:24:32 BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT COME.

2:24:33 TO THIS.

2:24:33 PROGRAM EVEN THOUGH THEY

2:24:34 MADE FOR THEM.

2:24:35 PLEASE SEE IF YOU.

2:24:36 CAN GET SOME RESOURCE THAT.

2:24:38 CAN GO AND HELP THEM REACH THEM

2:24:40 .

2:24:40 AND BRING.

2:24:41 THEM TO THE PROGRAM.

2:24:41 THAT ARE DESIGNED TO THEM.

2:24:44 AND THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.

2:24:45 I HAVE.

2:24:46 A.

2:24:46 LOT TO SAY BUT AND I WOULD LIKE

2:24:48 TO TAKE ESPECIALLY UH

2:24:49 UNSHACKLED PEOPLE TO FOR GIVING

2:24:51 ME THIS INVITATION AND COME TO

2:24:53 YOU GUYS AND CONGRATULATION FOR

2:24:54 THE HARD WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING

2:24:56 AND I KNOW IT'S GOING SOMEWHERE

2:24:58 AND I'M GLAD THAT BE PART

2:24:59 OF IT.

2:25:00 THANK YOU MR LEWIS.

2:25:01 THANK YOU GUYS.

2:25:03 ARE THERE ANY OTHER FOLKS ON

2:25:05 ZOOM WHO CAME PREPARED TO

2:25:12 TESTIFY?

2:25:12 YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.

2:25:22 WHY DON'T WE GO TO

2:25:23 COUNCILOR WEBER?

2:25:24 YOU HAD AND I KNOW YOU HAVE

2:25:26 OTHER PRESSING MATTERS.

2:25:28 UH, COUNCILOR WEBER, UM, GIVE

2:25:31 YOU THREE MINUTES.

2:25:32 YEP.

2:25:33 IN ADDITION, I I.

2:25:34 COULD TELL YOU PERIPHERAL.

2:25:36 VISION AS.

2:25:37 COUNCILOR FLYNN HAS JOINED

2:25:38 US.

2:25:39 UH, COUNCILOR WEBER RIGHT AFTER

2:25:41 YOU MOVE RIGHT TO

2:25:42 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:25:43 THEN WE'LL GO BACK TO THE, UH,

2:25:46 FOLKS ON ZOOM AND THEY WILL

2:25:48 HAVE FINAL AND CLOSING

2:25:51 STATEMENTS.

2:25:51 I'LL GIVE EACH OF YOU TWO

2:25:54 MINUTES.

2:25:55 COUNCIL WEBER.

2:25:56 OKAY.

2:25:56 YEAH.

2:25:56 THANKS.

2:25:57 UH, JUST SO.

2:25:59 IT SEEMS LIKE.

2:26:01 UH.

2:26:02 YOU.

2:26:03 KNOW, GETTING ENOUGH

2:26:04 QUALIFIED ATTORNEYS IN PLACE

2:26:07 IMMEDIATELY IS LIKE ONE.

2:26:08 OF.

2:26:09 THE SHORT TERM NEEDS HERE.

2:26:11 SO I GUESS, YOU KNOW, WHAT CAN

2:26:13 WE DO?

2:26:14 I KNOW WE TALK ABOUT GETTING

2:26:15 LAW FIRMS INVOLVED, BUT I MEAN

2:26:17 CAN WE HELP WITH THAT?

2:26:19 WHAT ARE YOUR LIKE, YOU KNOW,

2:26:22 INSTRUCTIONS ON THAT LIKE

2:26:24 WHAT'S BEING DONE AND WHAT CAN

2:26:26 WE DO TO TO HELP WITH THAT.

2:26:28 SORT OF.

2:26:29 YOU KNOW EMERGENCY.

2:26:30 YEAH SO.

2:26:32 OKAY SO AGAIN.

2:26:33 I THINK WE NEED TO.

2:26:35 BRING MORE AWARENESS ABOUT

2:26:37 WHAT'S GOING ON.

2:26:38 BELIEVE IT OR NOT WE TALKING

2:26:40 ABOUT THIS VERY CRUCIAL SUBJECT

2:26:41 RIGHT HERE.

2:26:43 SO MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST

2:26:44 NEXT DOOR TO US DO NOT HAVE ANY

2:26:46 CLUE ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON.

2:26:48 I THINK BRINGING MORE AWARENESS

2:26:50 TO EVERYONE SO THEY UNDERSTAND

2:26:52 THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION IS

2:26:53 STEP NUMBER ONE.

2:26:54 STEP NUMBER TWO ANYONE.

2:26:56 WHO REALLY HAS AN INFLUENCE

2:26:58 WILL KILL.

2:26:58 REACH OUT.

2:27:00 TO OTHER MEDIA.

2:27:01 LIKE I SAID MEDIA FIRMS UH

2:27:03 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

2:27:04 SHOULD DO.

2:27:04 SO EVEN IF WE WERE.

2:27:06 TO PUT TOGETHER THE TRAINING

2:27:08 BECAUSE AGAIN IF YOU ARE A

2:27:10 LAWYER I MEAN YOU KNOW THAT

2:27:11 THERE IS IMMIGRATION LAWYER

2:27:12 THAT IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

2:27:13 FROM DIFFERENT OTHER YOU KNOW,

2:27:17 UH UH FROM THAT JOB UH, AGREE

2:27:19 THAT YOU CAN WORK ON HOWEVER UH

2:27:22 WE KNOW WE HAVE DONE IT IN THE

2:27:24 PAST WHEN WE HAD SO MANY PEOPLE

2:27:25 WE HAVE LAWYERS CALL.

2:27:27 AND TRAIN OTHERS SO AT LEAST

2:27:29 THEY CAN BE THERE EVEN IF TO

2:27:32 HEAL TO LISTEN TO A

2:27:34 CONVERSATION THEY CAN DO

2:27:35 SOMETHING BECAUSE THERE IS

2:27:36 ALWAYS SOMETHING THAT SOMEONE

2:27:37 CAN DO ESPECIALLY WHEN FAMILIES

2:27:39 ARE LEFT ON THEIR OWN TO GO TO

2:27:42 THE COURT SYSTEM.

2:27:43 SO AND I BELIEVE MIRA HAS

2:27:45 ALWAYS THEY HAVE DONE A NUMBER

2:27:47 OF TRAINING TO HELP OTHERS SO

2:27:48 THEY UNDERSTAND.

2:27:49 BUT I THINK RIGHT NOW THE IDEA

2:27:51 IS THAT UH, THERE IS A LOT

2:27:52 OF KIND OF, YOU KNOW,

2:27:54 INDIFFERENCE ON WHAT'S GOING ON

2:27:55 BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE NOT FULLY

2:27:57 AWARE THAT ZOOM LIKE THOSE

2:27:59 SESSIONS ARE CRITICALLY

2:28:01 IMPORTANT.

2:28:01 FOR US TO WIN THAT TO.

2:28:02 OTHERS SO THAT THEY UNDERSTAND

2:28:03 THERE IS A WILL NEED, YOU KNOW,

2:28:05 COMMUNITY TO GET OTHERS TO COME

2:28:07 IN AND SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY.

2:28:09 OKAY.

2:28:10 YOU KNOW, I.

2:28:11 WOULD ALSO.

2:28:12 ADD YOU KNOW, PART OF THIS.

2:28:13 ALSO AND UH UM

2:28:16 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE MENTIONED

2:28:17 UH GETTING US MORE PEOPLE UM

2:28:19 DOJ ACCREDITED.

2:28:20 RIGHT.

2:28:21 AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS

2:28:22 THAT MIRA IS TRYING TO DO.

2:28:23 BUT DO YOU QUESTION

2:28:24 SPECIFICALLY I THINK ONE OF THE

2:28:25 THINGS WE ALSO NEED TO DO IS TO

2:28:27 STREAMLINE THE UM.

2:28:30 THE FIRMS.

2:28:31 RIGHT?

2:28:32 BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS

2:28:33 WE'RE HEARING IF YOU HAVE A

2:28:34 FIRM WHO IS HAS TIES TO THE

2:28:37 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR.

2:28:39 YOU KNOW.

2:28:40 HAVE FUNDING THROUGH THE

2:28:41 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THOSE FIRMS

2:28:43 ARE LIKELY NOT GOING TO TO BE

2:28:45 WORKING ON THESE CASES.

2:28:47 SO HOW DO WE STREAMLINE TO MAKE

2:28:49 SURE THAT WE ACTUALLY IDENTIFY

2:28:50 ,UM, FIRMS WHO HAVE NO TIES TO

2:28:52 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WHO

2:28:53 DON'T DEPEND ON THE FEDERAL

2:28:55 GOVERNMENT AND ARE MORE LIKELY

2:28:56 TO TO WORK WITH US.

2:28:57 SO I THINK THERE'S THERE'S SOME

2:28:58 WORK TO BE DONE THERE AS WELL.

2:29:00 OKAY.

2:29:01 UM AND I GUESS SO FOR

2:29:04 ACCREDITATION BECAUSE THIS YOU

2:29:05 DO TO ME LIKE WE HAVE JP FIGHTS

2:29:08 BACK AND THEY THEY HAVE 200

2:29:11 PLUS PEOPLE SIGNED UP FOR LOOSE

2:29:13 TRAINING AND SO WE CAN WE CAN

2:29:16 CAN I PUSH THOSE PEOPLE.

2:29:17 OVER UH INTO INTO THIS UM

2:29:21 GUESS.

2:29:22 IS THAT.

2:29:22 I MEAN.

2:29:23 WE ARE I THINK WE'RE IT ANY

2:29:25 HELP IS.

2:29:26 HELPFUL AS LONG AS UH THE

2:29:29 INTENTION IS THERE SO NO ONE IS

2:29:31 THERE BECAUSE AGAIN WE HAVE TO

2:29:32 BE CAREFUL NOT TO HURT INSTEAD

2:29:35 OF HELPING.

2:29:35 BUT AGAIN, AS LONG AS PEOPLE

2:29:37 ARE COMING WITH THE IDEA

2:29:39 OF HELPING WE CAN USE THAT HELP

2:29:42 IN SO MANY WAYS.

2:29:43 OKAY, WELL IF YOU HAVEN'T

2:29:44 SPOKEN TO ENID EXTREME YET I

2:29:47 MEAN THIS WAS A FUNDRAISER OR

2:29:48 EVENT IN JP NEXT WEEK AND IT

2:29:50 WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE SOMEBODY

2:29:51 YEAH YEAH I'M HAPPY TO SPEAK

2:29:53 BUT MAYBE WE.

2:29:54 CAN BRING.

2:29:55 YOU.

2:29:56 UP ON STAGE.

2:29:57 UH UM UH YOU KNOW ANYWAY, SO

2:29:59 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

2:30:00 THANK YOU THANK YOU.

2:30:01 CHAIR UM.

2:30:02 THANK YOU, MR WEBER.

2:30:04 UH, COUNCIL THING.

2:30:05 I GAVE THE COUNCIL A SIX

2:30:07 MINUTES AS OPENING.

2:30:10 UH, IF YOU COULD JUST USE THAT

2:30:12 SIX MINUTES FOR YOUR OPENING

2:30:14 AND QUESTIONS AND THEN WE CAN

2:30:15 WRAP UP.

2:30:16 THANK YOU.

2:30:17 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:30:18 AND THANK YOU FOR SHARING.

2:30:20 THIS.

2:30:20 IMPORTANT HEARING AND TO THE.

2:30:23 SPONSORS AS WELL FOR.

2:30:24 BRINGING THIS FORWARD.

2:30:26 I DO APOLOGIZE FOR BEING LATE.

2:30:29 UM, BUT I.

2:30:30 WILL WATCH THE VIDEO OVER THE.

2:30:33 WEEKEND TO LEARN MORE.

2:30:34 ABOUT THE SUBJECT.

2:30:37 DURING DURING THE HAITI

2:30:39 EARTHQUAKE.

2:30:40 I WAS LIVING IN GUANTANAMO AT

2:30:42 THE TIME.

2:30:43 WHICH IS.

2:30:44 WHICH IS NOT VERY FAR FROM

2:30:46 HAITI.

2:30:47 AND THE THE BASE AT GUANTANAMO

2:30:52 THE YES.

2:30:53 THE.

2:30:53 THE AIRFIELD.

2:30:53 REALLY UM.

2:30:55 WAS USED.

2:30:56 AS A.

2:30:56 AS AN AIRFIELD FOR SUPPLIES

2:30:58 GETTING INTO INTO HAITI.

2:31:01 UH BUT BY THE NAVY I WAS.

2:31:03 PART OF THE RELIEF EFFORT.

2:31:06 UM BUT.

2:31:06 HAVE TREMENDOUS RESPECT.

2:31:08 FOR.

2:31:08 THE PEOPLE OF HAITI AND SUPPORT

2:31:12 STRONGLY SUPPORT TPS FOR THE

2:31:14 HAITIAN COMMUNITY.

2:31:16 UM AND I KNOW THE CONTRIBUTIONS

2:31:19 THEY HAVE MADE TO OUR CITY AND

2:31:21 COUNTRY.

2:31:22 SO MAYBE JUST FOLLOWING

2:31:23 FOLLOWING UP ON

2:31:24 COUNCILOR WEBBER'S QUESTION,

2:31:26 UM.

2:31:28 IF IF PRIVATE.

2:31:30 CITIZENS WANT TO HELP UH,

2:31:33 SUPPORT LEGAL EFFORTS TO UM

2:31:36 HELP ON LEGAL MATTERS AS IT

2:31:37 RELATES TO.

2:31:37 IMMIGRATION.

2:31:38 WHAT IS.

2:31:38 THE.

2:31:39 BEST WAY.

2:31:39 FOR PRIVATE CITIZENS.

2:31:41 TO GET INVOLVED IN IN IN IN BE

2:31:45 HELPFUL.

2:31:47 I MEAN IF THEY ARE PRIVATE

2:31:49 CITIZEN WITH UH LOW BACKGROUND

2:31:52 WHO ARE WILLING TO HELP WITH UH

2:31:54 IMMIGRATION UM LEGAL UH

2:31:58 OBVIOUSLY WE AT MIRA WE

2:32:00 ENCOURAGE FOLKS TO REACH OUT

2:32:01 AND VOLUNTEER WITH OUR OFFICE.

2:32:03 SO I WOULD ABSOLUTELY ENCOURAGE

2:32:05 YOU TO REFER THEM TO OUR OFFICE

2:32:08 AND WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR A

2:32:09 VOLUNTEER TO STEP UP.

2:32:10 OKAY.

2:32:13 LEGAL ATTORNEYS ARE NON

2:32:15 ATTORNEYS.

2:32:16 IT DOESN'T MATTER RIGHT.

2:32:17 WELL I THINK IT'S VERY UH.

2:32:19 LOOK THIS IS THERE IS A LACK

2:32:25 OF QUALIFIED ATTORNEYS AND

2:32:27 WHILE WE ARE IN THIS THERE ARE

2:32:28 ALSO FOLKS OUT THERE WHO WANT

2:32:31 TO ACT LIKE THEY ARE ATTORNEYS.

2:32:33 WE KNOW THERE ARE FOLKS WHO ARE

2:32:34 THERE WHO ARE USING THIS MOMENT

2:32:37 TO STEAL AND FRAUD FOLKS.

2:32:38 SO I WOULD BE VERY CAREFUL FOR

2:32:40 US ESPECIALLY SOMEONE WHO'S

2:32:41 GOING TO VOLUNTEER.

2:32:42 WE WANT THEM TO ACTUALLY HAVE

2:32:43 THE EXPERIENCE.

2:32:45 COULD COULD SOMEONE MAKE.

2:32:47 A.

2:32:48 DONATION THAT MIGHT.

2:32:49 HELP OFFSET OR HELP SUPPORT.

2:32:53 UM LEGAL EFFORTS?

2:32:54 COULD THEY.

2:32:55 COULD THEY MAKE A FINANCIAL

2:32:56 CONTRIBUTION?

2:32:57 UM IS THAT IS THAT.

2:32:59 SOMETHING PEOPLE COULD DO ALSO.

2:33:01 I ALWAYS.

2:33:01 SEE WITH.

2:33:02 WHAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW THE

2:33:04 SKY'S THE LIMIT IN TERMS

2:33:05 OF WHAT.

2:33:06 PEOPLE CAN DO BECAUSE UH WE SET

2:33:08 UP UH A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO UH

2:33:11 UM, AN EMERGENCY FAMILY

2:33:12 EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FUND TO

2:33:14 SUPPORT FAMILIES BECAUSE AGAIN,

2:33:16 UH, AS WE SAID, IT'S NOT JUST

2:33:19 THE LEGAL.

2:33:19 ASPECT IT'S NOW PEOPLE

2:33:22 ESPECIALLY THAT THE WINTER

2:33:23 MONTHS ARE COMING UPON US.

2:33:24 PEOPLE WILL NOT HAVE ANY PLACE

2:33:26 TO STAY BECAUSE THEY CANNOT

2:33:27 AFFORD TO PAY RENT, NOT BECAUSE

2:33:29 THEY DON'T WANT TO PAY THE RENT

2:33:31 BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE.

2:33:32 OUT OF THEIR WORKPLACE THEY

2:33:34 CANNOT GO IN WORK.

2:33:35 SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FAMILIES

2:33:36 WHO NEED UH, ACCESS TO FOOD.

2:33:40 YEAH, ESPECIALLY YOU KNOW,

2:33:42 GIVEN EVERYTHING THAT IS GOING

2:33:43 ON, EVEN THE UH, HAITIANS UH,

2:33:46 ARE QUALIFIED TO BE UH, CUBAN

2:33:48 AND TRAINED BUT NOT EVERYONE

2:33:49 UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS AND

2:33:51 NOT EVERYONE IS ABLE AND

2:33:53 WILLING TO GO OUT THERE KNOWING

2:33:55 THAT.

2:33:56 WE HAVE WHAT WE CALL OUR

2:33:58 INDUSTRY.

2:33:58 SO WE WE ARE LIVING WITH WHAT

2:34:01 WE CALL, YOU.

2:34:01 KNOW.

2:34:02 A TIME WHERE UH IT'S ALMOST

2:34:04 LIKE WHEREVER YOU GO YOU ARE AT

2:34:07 RISK OF BEING DETAINED.

2:34:08 UH, WE HAVE A TESTIMONY

2:34:10 OF SOMEONE YOU A US CITIZEN WHO

2:34:12 HAS BEEN DETAINED BECAUSE UH,

2:34:15 WHEN THEY CAME IN LIKE TWO

2:34:16 YEARS AGO, UH, THE OVERSTAYED

2:34:19 THEIR VISA AND NOW BECAUSE THEY

2:34:20 WERE IN FACT IN FULL OF ICE I

2:34:22 SAID OH YEAH, YOU COMMITTED A

2:34:24 CRIME YEARS AGO LIKE 20 YEARS

2:34:25 AGO.

2:34:26 SO AGAIN NO ONE IS UM, UH,

2:34:30 PROTECTED RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW,

2:34:32 COMMUNITY.

2:34:32 SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FOOD.

2:34:34 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MENTAL

2:34:35 HEALTH.

2:34:35 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RENT.

2:34:36 I MEAN.

2:34:37 SO MUCH FOR FOR THAT PEOPLE

2:34:39 NEED NOW AND THAT YOU KNOW, THE

2:34:41 SKY'S THE LIMIT IN TERMS OF YOU

2:34:42 KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW, FINANCIAL

2:34:43 CONTRIBUTION CAN DO TO SUPPORT

2:34:45 FAMILIES.

2:34:46 AND AND I WOULD JUST YOU KNOW

2:34:48 NOT DOCTOR GIVEAWAYS NOT

2:34:50 DOESN'T MENTION THIS BUT I

2:34:51 THINK SHE IS UH I THINK IF

2:34:54 THERE ARE FOLKS WHO WANT TO

2:34:56 SUPPORT FINANCIALLY UH RIGHT

2:34:57 NOW THE BEST WAY TO GIVE IS TO

2:34:59 ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE DOING

2:35:01 EVERYTHING THAT THAT I JUST

2:35:02 DESCRIBED FROM LEGAL AID TO ALL

2:35:04 OF THE NECESSARY NEEDS.

2:35:05 AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT ABC

2:35:07 DOES.

2:35:07 AND SO THOSE ARE THE KIND

2:35:08 OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT PEOPLE

2:35:09 SHOULD BE SUPPORTING IN THIS

2:35:10 MOMENT.

2:35:12 YEAH.

2:35:12 THANK YOU.

2:35:13 WHAT WERE THERE.

2:35:17 UM SO.

2:35:19 WITH WITH.

2:35:21 HAITIAN AND HAITIAN.

2:35:23 THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY IN BOSTON

2:35:24 OR GREATER BOSTON.

2:35:25 AND WITH.

2:35:27 THE POSSIBILITY OF.

2:35:28 BEING DEPORTED.

2:35:31 ARE WE SEEING A LOT OF HAITIAN

2:35:33 WORKERS NOW NOT GOING TO WORK.

2:35:37 UM, AND.

2:35:38 AFRAID OF GOING TO WORK

2:35:39 BECAUSE.

2:35:40 OF.

2:35:40 THE ROLE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

2:35:42 COULD PLAY.

2:35:43 IN PICKING.

2:35:43 UP AS THAT WAS.

2:35:44 AND ALSO.

2:35:45 OH YEAH, THIS IS THIS IS UH

2:35:47 THIS IS A DAY TO DAY KIND OF,

2:35:48 YOU KNOW, EXPERIENCE RIGHT NOW

2:35:50 THIS WEEK YOU HEARD WHAT

2:35:51 HAPPENED IN NEW BEDFORD AND

2:35:53 BECAUSE OF THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S

2:35:55 ALMOST LIKE EVERY SINGLE CORNER

2:35:56 LIKE MIGHT HAVE.

2:35:57 BEEN IF YOU WERE TO DRIVE TO

2:35:59 MIGHT HAVE BEEN ENGINE YOU

2:36:00 MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN SUCH A

2:36:01 BOOMING KIND OF NEW COMMUNITY.

2:36:03 PEOPLE ALL OF WALKING TALKING

2:36:06 AND ONE GO IN FRONT OF OUR

2:36:07 OFFICE THERE'S ALWAYS LINE

2:36:09 OF PEOPLE AND SOMEBODY WAS JUST

2:36:11 VIDEOTAPING AND IN THE VIDEO

2:36:12 THEY SAID.

2:36:13 WOW.

2:36:14 LOOK AT.

2:36:15 WHAT I DID TO OUR COMMUNITY

2:36:17 .

2:36:17 IT'S ALMOST EMPTY BECAUSE AGAIN

2:36:20 PEOPLE.

2:36:21 ARE NOT GETTING.

2:36:22 OUT AND.

2:36:24 AND ONE THING FOR US TO

2:36:25 UNDERSTAND IS THAT.

2:36:27 BECAUSE OF THIS.

2:36:28 UH, AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT HAS

2:36:31 BEEN POURED INTO ICE.

2:36:33 THEY BECAME SO SOPHISTICATED.

2:36:36 THAT I COULD.

2:36:37 BE TALKING TO YOU RIGHT NOW

2:36:38 AND THEN THEY ARE TAKING ME.

2:36:40 YOU DON'T EVEN REALIZE WHEN

2:36:41 THEY ARE TAKING SO THEY ARE.

2:36:42 SUPER SOPHISTICATED WHEN THEY

2:36:45 GO FOR EXAMPLE TO ANY PARKING

2:36:46 LOT AND THEN PUT THEM UP.

2:36:48 AND TAKE THAT UP.

2:36:50 SO THEY ARE ABLE.

2:36:50 TO SEE WHO IS COMING IN, WHO

2:36:51 IS LEAVING AND THEY KNOW WHEN

2:36:53 TO JUST COME IN.

2:36:53 GETS YOU.

2:36:54 IN THE PAST.

2:36:55 WE USED TO HAVE A LOT OF NOISE

2:36:57 WHEN I WAS IN THE COMMUNITY

2:36:59 BECAUSE WE HAD TIME TO SEE

2:37:00 PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO DOCUMENT

2:37:02 WITH THEIR, YOU KNOW, CAMERA

2:37:03 AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.

2:37:04 NOW THEY DO IT IN A WAY THAT IS

2:37:06 SO THOUGH.

2:37:06 THAT YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW.

2:37:08 WHEN THEY ARE COMING.

2:37:09 IT'S AFTER.

2:37:09 SO MANY WAYS SO AND SO AND.

2:37:11 THEN BEFORE YOU KNOW IT'S

2:37:12 BEEN SO HAS BEEN TAKEN.

2:37:12 SO IT'S ALMOST LIKE IT'S A IT'S

2:37:14 .

2:37:14 A WAR ZONE RIGHT NOW THAT WE

2:37:16 ARE LIVING IN EVERY SINGLE UH

2:37:19 CORNER OF OUR COMMUNITIES.

2:37:20 YEAH.

2:37:21 THE UH.

2:37:22 CAN I JUST.

2:37:23 WANT TO.

2:37:24 THANK YOU ONE SECOND.

2:37:26 COUNCILOR FLYNN, ONE LAST

2:37:27 QUESTION OR.

2:37:29 YEAH, I WOULD JUST MAKE A.

2:37:31 BRIEF COMMENT.

2:37:31 UM.

2:37:34 SO WHEN A WORKER DOESN'T GO TO

2:37:37 WORK BECAUSE OF THAT POSSIBLE

2:37:40 DEPORTATION.

2:37:41 I KNOW MANY HAITIAN.

2:37:43 PEOPLE WORK IN HOSPITALS.

2:37:45 OR SERVICE INDUSTRIES OR I

2:37:48 KNOW.

2:37:48 IN NURSING HOMES AS WELL.

2:37:49 BASICALLY YOU DON'T GET PAID

2:37:51 ALSO SO IT IS HAVING A

2:37:54 DEVASTATING I WOULD ASSUME

2:37:55 IMPACT.

2:37:56 ON PAYING PAYING RENT ON FOOD

2:37:59 ON ABSOLUTELY.

2:37:59 ON ELECTRICAL BILLS AND.

2:38:01 JUST EVERYDAY LIVING.

2:38:02 UM BUT JUST WANT TO SAY THANK

2:38:04 YOU TO THE THREE PEOPLE THAT

2:38:05 ARE HERE FOR THE IMPORTANT

2:38:06 WORK.

2:38:07 UM, COMPASSION.

2:38:08 THE WORK THAT YOU WERE DOING.

2:38:09 THANK YOU.

2:38:10 MR CHAIR.

2:38:11 THANK THANK YOU.

2:38:12 SO WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE'LL GIVE

2:38:14 EACH PANELIST TWO MINUTES AND

2:38:18 COUNCIL WHOEVER DO YOU WANT TWO

2:38:19 MINUTES TO CLOSE?

2:38:20 UH.

2:38:21 AND GIVE COUNCILOR UH

2:38:24 LOUIJEUNE TWO MINUTES AND I'M

2:38:27 GOING TO FOREGO MY QUESTIONS

2:38:28 BECAUSE MUCH OF WHAT I WANTED

2:38:31 TO ASK YOU'VE ALREADY ANSWERED

2:38:33 I DO HAVE A FEW THINGS I WANT

2:38:34 TO RAISE, BUT, UH, LET ME LET

2:38:37 YOU MAKE YOUR FINAL STATEMENT

2:38:40 AND WE'LL TRY AND WRAP UP IN

2:38:43 THE NEXT FEW MINUTES.

2:38:43 THANK YOU.

2:38:46 UH, STARTING WITH ME.

2:38:47 YES.

2:38:47 UH, MISS.

2:38:48 WELL, I JUST I JUST WANT TO

2:38:51 THANK YOU ALL FOR THIS

2:38:52 OPPORTUNITY.

2:38:53 UH, AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING ON

2:38:55 THIS ISSUE.

2:38:56 UM, OBVIOUSLY THIS REALLY SHOWS

2:38:58 HOW THOUGHTFUL YOU TRYING TO BE

2:38:59 ON THIS ISSUE.

2:39:00 SO WE REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE

2:39:02 AND AT MIRROR WE WANT TO BE A

2:39:04 THOUGHTFUL PARTNERS UH, AS WE

2:39:05 CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER.

2:39:08 UM, AND SO THE LAST THING I

2:39:10 JUST WANT TO BRIEFLY SAY, UM,

2:39:12 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU TOUCHED

2:39:13 ON THIS EARLIER TOO IS UH, UM,

2:39:17 TPS FOR EL SALVADORIAN VERSUS

2:39:20 HAITI.

2:39:20 UM, ONE OF THE THING AND ALSO

2:39:23 TO YOUR QUESTION AND WHAT WHAT

2:39:24 IS THE STRATEGY CONTINUE TO BE

2:39:26 FROM HERE?

2:39:27 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE

2:39:29 HEARING IS THAT THERE ARE A LOT

2:39:31 OF BUSINESS OWNERS WHO ARE

2:39:33 FRIENDS WITH THE PRESIDENTS BUT

2:39:36 ALSO DEPEND ON THE LABOR OF EL

2:39:38 SALVADORIAN WHO ARE CALLING HIM

2:39:40 .

2:39:41 AND ALSO LET'S NOT FORGET THE

2:39:42 PRESIDENT OF EL SALVADOR IS A

2:39:44 GOOD FRIEND WITH OUR PRESIDENT

2:39:45 .

2:39:46 SO SO THERE IS THERE SO THERE'S

2:39:48 A LOT OF PRESSURE FROM THE

2:39:50 BUSINESS COMMUNITY TO CONGRESS

2:39:51 AND TO THE PRESIDENT.

2:39:53 AND I THINK THAT OUR BUSINESS

2:39:55 UH, HONORS BUSINESS COMMUNITY

2:39:57 THAT ALSO DEPENDS ON THE LABOR

2:39:58 OF UH OF OUR HAITIAN

2:40:00 COMMUNITIES NEED TO STEP UP AS

2:40:02 WELL AND THAT SHOULD BE PART

2:40:03 OF THE STRATEGY BECAUSE UM,

2:40:06 CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT DO

2:40:07 LISTEN TO A LOT OF THESE

2:40:08 BUSINESSES ORDER.

2:40:09 SO UH, WE ALSO WANT OUR

2:40:11 BUSINESS COMMUNITY WHO DEPEND

2:40:12 ON A LABOR OR ASIAN COMMUNITIES

2:40:14 TO STEP UP AND THEIR ADVOCACY

2:40:16 EFFORT.

2:40:17 UM.

2:40:19 AGAIN, THANK.

2:40:19 YOU SO.

2:40:20 WELL, DOCTOR RUBIO.

2:40:22 YEAH, HE'S GOING TO FOR ME THEN

2:40:23 I'M OKAY.

2:40:24 UH, OKAY.

2:40:25 SO JUST.

2:40:26 A QUICK RESPONSE TO

2:40:27 COUNCILOR FLYNN'S QUESTION

2:40:28 ABOUT EMPLOYMENT.

2:40:29 IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT

2:40:30 FOR PEOPLE WHO HAD THEIR WORK

2:40:33 AUTHORIZATION ONLY BECAUSE

2:40:34 OF TPS, THEY LOST THAT ON

2:40:36 AUGUST.

2:40:37 5TH SO.

2:40:37 THEY DON'T HAVE JOBS TO BE

2:40:39 WORRIED ABOUT GOING.

2:40:41 TO UM YOU KNOW, SOME OF.

2:40:42 THOSE.

2:40:43 PEOPLE GOT ALTERNATE UM WORK

2:40:45 AUTHORIZATION THROUGH ASYLUM

2:40:47 AND YES, THEY CAN GO TO THAT

2:40:48 WORK WORRIED ABOUT GETTING.

2:40:49 PICKED UP BUT BUT THE PEOPLE.

2:40:51 AT TPS.

2:40:52 UM.

2:40:52 THEY DON'T HAVE A JOB TO GO

2:40:54 BACK TO AND A LOT OF THOSE

2:40:55 PEOPLE GOT THEIR HEALTH

2:40:55 INSURANCE.

2:40:56 AND.

2:40:56 PAID FOR THEIR HEALTH CARE

2:40:57 THROUGH THEIR JOB.

2:40:58 AND SO.

2:40:59 THOSE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO.

2:41:00 FORGO UM MEDICAL ATTENTION

2:41:02 UNTIL THEY ABSOLUTELY NEED TO

2:41:04 AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO.

2:41:05 GO TO EMERGENCY ROOMS.

2:41:07 UM, AND SO JUST IN TERMS

2:41:08 OF SUMMING UP, UM, I JUST WOULD

2:41:10 LIKE TO THANK EVERYBODY UM.

2:41:12 THERE'S YOU KNOW.

2:41:13 THERE'S A LOT OF WORK TO DO

2:41:14 ON IT'S A GREAT CRISIS.

2:41:16 BUT I'LL INVOKE THE HAITIAN

2:41:17 PROVERB.

2:41:17 OF MEN UM, BELL SHAPED MANY

2:41:19 HANDS MAKE LOVE LIGHT AND IT'S

2:41:21 BY EVERYBODY COMING TOGETHER

2:41:23 AND WORKING ON A MILLION

2:41:24 DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE'RE

2:41:26 WE'RE GOING TO CARRY THIS LOAD.

2:41:28 GREAT.

2:41:28 THANK YOU DOCTOR GUMBO.

2:41:29 YEAH.

2:41:30 AGAIN THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR

2:41:31 THIS OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE

2:41:32 WITH YOU.

2:41:34 UH ESPECIALLY AGAIN THANK YOU,

2:41:36 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE FOR YOUR

2:41:37 LEADERSHIP ON THIS ISSUE,

2:41:39 COUNSELOR AND CULPEPPER, FOR

2:41:41 EVERYTHING THAT YOU ARE DOING

2:41:42 TO BRING US TOGETHER.

2:41:43 KELSEY.

2:41:43 THAT WILL BE A THANK YOU FOR

2:41:45 YOUR, YOU KNOW, THOUGHTFUL

2:41:46 INSIGHT AND THINKING OUTSIDE

2:41:47 OF THE BOX.

2:41:48 UH, WHAT I WANT US TO LEAVE

2:41:50 THIS ROOM HERE IS THAT THERE IS

2:41:53 WILL PAIN WILL PAIN HAPPENING

2:41:56 IN EVERY SINGLE CORNER OF OUR

2:41:58 COMMUNITIES.

2:41:58 FAMILIES ARE HURTING.

2:42:01 AND THEY ARE HURTING DEEPLY AND

2:42:02 THAT THIS HUMAN DIMENSION

2:42:04 OF WHAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW IS

2:42:06 SOMETHING FOR US TO CARRY WITH

2:42:07 US AS WE GO ABOUT OUR BUSINESS

2:42:09 IS TO REMEMBER AS WE ARE

2:42:12 PROBABLY ENJOYING OUR TIME, YOU

2:42:14 KNOW, WITH OUR OWN FAMILIES

2:42:15 THERE ARE FAMILIES WHO CANNOT

2:42:16 AFFORD TO BE WITH THEIR

2:42:18 CHILDREN, CANNOT AFFORD TO BE

2:42:19 WITH THEIR PARENTS AND BECAUSE

2:42:21 OF THAT WE ARE CALLED TO DO

2:42:23 WHATEVER IT TAKES.

2:42:25 TO FIGHT TO PROTECT AND.

2:42:27 TO SUPPORT.

2:42:27 AND AT THE END OF THE DAY I

2:42:29 WOULD SAY UM, I AM GRATEFUL FOR

2:42:31 THE WORK THAT I'M DOING BECAUSE

2:42:33 I KNOW WHEN I GO TO SLEEP I

2:42:35 HAVE THIS SMILE THAT I BROUGHT

2:42:37 TO SOMEONE'S LIFE AND THAT'S

2:42:39 REALLY IT'S THE SENSE OF WHY I

2:42:41 AM HERE.

2:42:42 WE ALL ARE HERE BECAUSE WE HAVE

2:42:44 A CALL TO SERVE.

2:42:45 YOU CALLED TO DO SOMETHING.

2:42:47 AND WHATEVER WE CAME TO DO.

2:42:49 THAT THING EVERY SINGLE.

2:42:50 DAY OF OUR LIVES LET'S DO IT

2:42:52 BECAUSE.

2:42:53 WE CAN LIVE A HAPPIER LIFE BY

2:42:56 BRINGING HOPE, BY BRINGING A

2:42:57 SMILE TO SOMEONE'S LIFE.

2:42:59 SO THIS IS A BIG.

2:43:00 CRISIS, BUT.

2:43:01 THIS IS ALSO A BIG OPPORTUNITY

2:43:02 FOR ALL OF US TO STEP UP.

2:43:04 AND SHOW THAT WE ARE REALLY UM

2:43:06 IN THAT WE CARE ABOUT EACH

2:43:08 OTHER.

2:43:08 SO THANK.

2:43:09 YOU FOR.

2:43:09 WHAT YOU DO.

2:43:10 AND LET'S CONTINUE TO FIGHT.

2:43:11 THANK YOU, DOCTOR GABEL.

2:43:14 COUNSELOR WEBER.

2:43:18 THANK YOU.

2:43:19 UH I UH YESTERDAY UH WAS UH

2:43:22 SOMEBODY A.

2:43:24 CONSTRUCTION WORKER, UH, DIED

2:43:26 UH, YOU KNOW, UM, FALLING OFF A

2:43:28 SCAFFOLDING IN JAMAICA PLAIN

2:43:29 AND MADE ME THINK ABOUT THERE

2:43:32 WAS A THERE'S A BOOK BY JIMMY

2:43:34 BRESLIN I THINK IT'S CALLED THE

2:43:35 SHORT SWEET DREAM OF EDUARDO

2:43:36 GUTIERREZ ABOUT A MEXICAN

2:43:37 IMMIGRANT WHO COMES TO NEW YORK

2:43:38 AND HE DIED, UH, IN A, YOU

2:43:41 KNOW, FALLING OFF A SCAFFOLD IN

2:43:42 A SIMILAR WAY.

2:43:42 AND IN THE BOOK HE, UH JIMMY

2:43:45 BRESLIN HAS A LINE SOMETHING

2:43:46 ALONG THE LINES OF LIKE I DON'T

2:43:48 THINK PEOPLE SOMEBODY'S RIGHTS

2:43:49 SHOULD BE DICTATED UH, BASED ON

2:43:51 WHAT SIDE OF A LINE THEY WERE

2:43:52 BORN ON.

2:43:53 UM, AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, WHAT

2:43:55 WE'RE SEEING HERE IS JUST YOU

2:43:57 KNOW, IT'S IT'S THAT AND MIXED

2:43:59 UP, UH, YOU KNOW, IN A STEW

2:44:02 WITH WITH JUST WITH RACISM FLAT

2:44:05 OUT RACISM AND, YOU KNOW,

2:44:07 WATCHING PEOPLE BE HUNTED AND

2:44:10 YOU KNOW, FORCED TO WEAR ANKLE

2:44:12 MONITORS AND BEING DENIED

2:44:13 MEDICAL CARE AND ALL THIS OTHER

2:44:16 STUFF IT JUST IT IS SOMETHING

2:44:17 THAT YOU KNOW, UH, JUST YOU

2:44:19 KNOW, I WANT TO THANK THE

2:44:21 PANELISTS AND MY COLLEAGUES FOR

2:44:22 FOR FIGHTING AGAINST AND YOU

2:44:24 KNOW, I THINK THERE'S THERE'S

2:44:26 YOU KNOW, HIGHER CALLING FOR US

2:44:28 IS TO TRY TO DO WE CAN AND

2:44:30 WHETHER THAT'S YOU KNOW

2:44:32 SOMETHING THAT THE THIS THE

2:44:34 CITY DOES OR WE JUST DO AS

2:44:37 INDIVIDUALS AND WE WORK WITH

2:44:38 OTHER PEOPLE TO TO FIND

2:44:40 SOLUTIONS FOR I MEAN I

2:44:41 CERTAINLY UH HAVE MY SUPPORT

2:44:44 AND UM, YOU KNOW, I JUST THANK

2:44:47 YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR

2:44:48 BRINGING THIS DISCUSSION TO THE

2:44:50 CITY HALL TODAY AND THANK YOU

2:44:51 FOR SPEAKING SO ELOQUENTLY

2:44:52 ABOUT IT.

2:44:53 THANK YOU CHAIR.

2:44:54 THANK YOU COUNCILOR.

2:44:55 WHEREVER COMES OF FLYNN.

2:44:58 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:45:00 UH, AS A NATION AND AS A CITY,

2:45:04 WE HAVE A MORAL OBLIGATION TO

2:45:05 HELP THE PEOPLE OF HAITI THAT

2:45:08 ARE LIVING HERE IN BOSTON AND

2:45:10 LIVING HERE IN THE UNITED

2:45:11 STATES.

2:45:11 THANK YOU, MR CHAIR.

2:45:13 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FOR THE

2:45:15 COUNCIL.

2:45:15 WELL.

2:45:16 LOUIJEUNE.

2:45:16 I GOT A LOT TO SAY.

2:45:17 THIS IS, UH THIS IS NOT JUST A

2:45:20 HEARING FOR ME.

2:45:21 THIS IS MY MORNINGS.

2:45:22 THIS IS MY NIGHTS.

2:45:23 THIS IS THE HEARTACHE THAT WE

2:45:26 CARRY AND THAT WE'VE CARRIED

2:45:27 FOR SO LONG WITH EACH OF YOU I

2:45:30 DO NOT KNOW WHERE I WOULD BE

2:45:32 AND HOW WE WOULD BE ABLE TO DO

2:45:33 THIS WORK.

2:45:34 BRIAN AND IDA MORONEY AND THE

2:45:37 WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING OVER AT

2:45:38 MIRA AND MY DAILY COME BACK TO

2:45:40 AND DOCTOR GOBBLE UM I THE

2:45:44 EMAILS, THE TEXTS, THE PHONE

2:45:46 CALLS I DON'T KNOW WHERE I

2:45:48 WOULD BE IN THIS WORK WITHOUT

2:45:49 YOU.

2:45:50 UM THIS WORK WOULD BE SO MUCH

2:45:51 HARDER TO DO AND TO BEAR AND IT

2:45:53 IS ALREADY INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT

2:45:55 AS AN AT-LARGE COUNCILOR WHO IS

2:45:57 RESPONSIBLE FOR SHOWING UP IN

2:45:58 EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD WHO DOES YOU

2:45:59 KNOW, IN THE NORTH END TO LATE

2:46:01 LAST NIGHT, UM, THAT THIS IS A

2:46:05 PARTICULAR LOAD THAT VERY FEW.

2:46:08 PEOPLE REALLY UNDERSTAND HOW

2:46:10 HEAVY IT IS UM, AND HOW WE WORK

2:46:14 AND WITH ALL CREATIVITY IS

2:46:16 POSSIBLE TO REALLY HELP PEOPLE

2:46:19 SOLVE PROBLEMS WHEN IT SEEMS

2:46:20 IMPOSSIBLE.

2:46:21 SO I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU

2:46:22 FOR THE WORK.

2:46:23 UM I WANT TO THANK UM,

2:46:27 COUNCILOR CULPEPER FOR HOLDING

2:46:28 THIS HEARING.

2:46:29 COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU HAVE STOOD

2:46:31 WITH US WHETHER IT BE A CAFE

2:46:33 AND MAKING PHONE CALLS AND JUST

2:46:36 LIKE ALWAYS TEXTING ME OR

2:46:37 ALWAYS CALLING ME ASKING YOU

2:46:38 WHAT MORE CAN WE DO?

2:46:39 WHAT MORE CAN WE DO THAT IS

2:46:42 REALLY HELPFUL IN AN

2:46:43 ENVIRONMENT THAT IS RACIST, IN

2:46:45 AN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS

2:46:46 ANTI-BLACK, IN AN ENVIRONMENT

2:46:47 THAT IS ANTI-IMMIGRANT.

2:46:49 MY WORK HERE ON BEHALF OF THE

2:46:50 ASIAN COMMUNITY HAS BEEN

2:46:51 BLOCKED BY COLLEAGUES.

2:46:53 IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WHEN WE

2:46:55 HAVE THE XENOPHOBIA AND THE

2:46:57 RACISM OF THIS PRESIDENT THAT

2:46:59 WE DON'T FALL INTO THAT TRAP

2:47:01 OF SAYING WE CAN'T DO ENOUGH.

2:47:03 THERE IS ALWAYS MORE THAT WE

2:47:04 CAN DO WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP

2:47:06 WITH OUR BUSINESS COMMUNITY,

2:47:07 WITH OUR PHILANTHROPIC

2:47:08 COMMUNITY, WITH THE STATE AND

2:47:10 WE ARE TALKING ABOUT BOSTON

2:47:11 RESIDENTS AT THE END OF THE

2:47:12 DAY.

2:47:13 SO I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO

2:47:15 ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE SHOWING UP

2:47:16 GENUINELY AND AUTHENTICALLY IN

2:47:17 THIS WORK.

2:47:18 IT IS EASY TO JUST COME UP AND

2:47:20 SHOW UP AND SAY THINGS, BUT TO

2:47:22 DO THE WORK AND BE PART OF IT

2:47:23 IS HARDER AND I WANT TO SAY

2:47:25 THANK YOU VERY MUCH MA'AM BILL

2:47:27 CHOPIN.

2:47:28 THANK YOU.

2:47:29 THANK YOU COUNCILOR EWING AND I

2:47:32 JUST WANTED TO READ TWO

2:47:35 STATEMENTS INTO THE RECORD UH,

2:47:37 THAT I THINK REALLY HIT HOME.

2:47:39 THE FIRST ONE IS WITHOUT

2:47:42 IMMIGRATION, MASSACHUSETTS

2:47:44 LIKELY WOULD HAVE EXPERIENCED

2:47:47 OUTRIGHT POPULATION DECLINE

2:47:50 OVER MUCH OF THE PAST CENTURY.

2:47:52 AND THE SECOND ONE IS THE

2:47:55 COMMONWEALTH'S ECONOMY DEPENDS

2:47:56 HEAVILY ON IMMIGRANT WORKERS.

2:47:58 ACROSS SEVERAL INDUSTRIES,

2:48:00 ESPECIALLY IN HEALTH CARE,

2:48:03 CONSTRUCTION, HIGHER EDUCATION

2:48:05 AND THE BROADER KNOWLEDGE

2:48:08 ECONOMY.

2:48:08 WHILE IMMIGRANTS MAKE UP ABOUT

2:48:11 20% OF THE COMMONWEALTH'S

2:48:13 POPULATION, THEY ACCOUNT FOR

2:48:16 24% OF THE LABOR FORCE.

2:48:17 AND WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE

2:48:20 WAY HAITIANS ARE BEING PULLED

2:48:26 DOWN IN A MIGHTY WAY WITHOUT.

2:48:30 AND I THINK THAT TOOK A BOW,

2:48:32 YOU REALLY HIT IT WHEN YOU SAID

2:48:35 THE REAL WORK IS GOING FROM

2:48:39 DOOR TO DOOR TO MAKE SURE

2:48:42 PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE

2:48:47 SIGNIFICANCE OF NOT ONLY THE

2:48:49 HAITIANS CONTRIBUTION TO THE

2:48:50 ECONOMY BUT TO THE DEVASTATION

2:48:54 THAT'S TAKING PLACE IN THE

2:48:56 HAITIAN COMMUNITY NOW.

2:48:57 AND YOU'RE RIGHT, YOU'RE RIGHT

2:49:00 FOLKS ALIENATE THEMSELVES

2:49:03 EMOTIONALLY AND MENTALLY AND

2:49:05 IGNORE IT AS IF IT NOT

2:49:08 HAPPENING BECAUSE IT'S NOT AT

2:49:10 THEIR DOOR AND I THINK WE HAVE

2:49:12 TO TAKE IT TO EVERY DOOR SO

2:49:14 EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THE

2:49:16 SIGNIFICANT OF WHAT HAITIANS

2:49:19 ARE EXPERIENCING NOW BECAUSE

2:49:22 YOU'RE RIGHT I USED TO GO TO

2:49:24 MATTAPAN WHERE REVEREND KIKI WE

2:49:26 STOPPED BY.

2:49:27 WE LOOK AT THE VIBRANCY

2:49:29 OF FOLKS IN AND OUT E WHEN YOU

2:49:32 GO THROUGH MATTAPAN NOW IT'S A

2:49:34 SHAME.

2:49:35 IT'S LIKE.

2:49:38 WHAT DO THEY CALL THOSE TOWNS?

2:49:40 NO STONE?

2:49:42 NO IN THE SOUTH THEY CALL

2:49:43 OF THE.

2:49:43 SUNDAY SUNDOWN AND IT REMINDED

2:49:47 ME WHEN I RODE THROUGH MATTAPAN

2:49:49 OF US SON DOWNTOWN AND THAT

2:49:52 JUST CAN'T HAPPEN.

2:49:54 SO I JUST HOPE AND PRAY THAT

2:49:55 EVERYONE THAT'S LISTENING WILL

2:49:57 GO OUT AND TELL SOMEBODY.

2:49:59 WE'LL COME OVER AND MAKE SOME

2:50:00 CALLS.

2:50:01 I WANT TO COME OVER TO JAMAICA

2:50:02 PLAIN AND MAKE SOME CALLS AND

2:50:04 REALLY MAKE AN EFFORT IN THE

2:50:09 CITY OF BOSTON TO REALLY MAKE A

2:50:11 DIFFERENCE.

2:50:12 I WANT TO THANK YOU TO ALL

2:50:13 OF OUR PANELISTS, UH, MY

2:50:15 COUNCIL COLLEAGUES AND EVERYONE

2:50:16 WHO PARTICIPATED IN TODAY'S

2:50:18 HEARING.

2:50:20 THE CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE CHANGED

2:50:22 DRAMATICALLY SINCE OUR APRIL

2:50:24 HEARING.

2:50:24 WHAT WE'VE HEARD TODAY WILL

2:50:27 HELP US BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW

2:50:29 THE TERMINATION OF THE HAITIAN

2:50:31 TPS IS AFFECTING BOSTON

2:50:33 RESIDENTS AND WHERE ADDITIONAL

2:50:36 LEGAL ESPECIALLY LEGAL,

2:50:38 ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT

2:50:40 IS STILL NEEDED.

2:50:41 LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUE TO

2:50:43 WORK WITH THE ADMINISTRATION,

2:50:45 OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS, MY

2:50:47 COLLEAGUES TO MAKE SURE

2:50:49 AFFECTED HAITIAN RESIDENTS AND

2:50:50 THEIR FAMILIES HAVE ACCESS TO

2:50:52 THE RESOURCES AND THE SUPPORT

2:50:55 THAT THEY NEED.

2:50:56 THIS HEARING ON DOCKET NUMBER

2:50:58 0299 IS A JOINT.

2:51:00 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

2:51:02 THANK YOU.

2:51:03 IT'S THANK YOU.