03/10/2026
Today we showed up strong in Albany for the CARE4IF Lobby Day!🏛️✊🏽
Advocates, community members, and organizers came together to meet with legislators and push for a full $175 million investment for the Office of New Americans (ONA) in the FY27 budget With the Assembly and Senate one-house budgets already meeting our ask, today was about making sure this funding stays in the final budget and does not get negotiated down.
We had powerful conversations with AM Jo Anne Simon ( ), AM Latrice Walker ( Sen. Zellnor Myrie ( ), AD Maritza Davila (), AM Claire Valdez (), and AM Marcela Mitaynes ()**, lifting up the needs of immigrant communities across New York. Thank you to these leaders and their teams for taking the time to meet with us and discuss the importance of sustaining this critical investment.
Special thanks to AM Mitaynes, AM Claire Valdez for their leadership and partnership, and to all of the organizers, advocates, and community members who made today possible. 💙
We had a successful and energizing day of advocacy, reminding our elected officials that immigrant communities deserve resources, protection, and opportunities to thrive. Now we keep the pressure on to ensure the full $175 million for the Office of New Americans - along with the ARA and BUILD Acts— makes it into the final budget.
When we organize together,our voices are impossible to ignore.
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