Two programs – NYC Help for Immigrants
New York City has now begun two programs with funding to help immigrants – $13.7 million to be provided to community-based organizations for outreach and increasing seats for adult education classes for GED’s so they can qualify for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program – with a further $4.3 million to help expand related education programs offered through CUNY like ESL and general educational development.
The second program, the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project, has a beginning allocation of $500,000 for a network of legal service providers to represent immigrants facing deportation. The City funds will help cover the cost of a pilot program to represent 135 immigrants and proponents say that it would cost about $8.7 million to provide legal representation for the approximate 2800 immigrants living in New York State who are detained and face deportation every year.