Immigration is 'PERSONAL,' New York advocate says amid Trump crackdown

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00:00Thank you guys for being here, enjoyed the food, and appreciate all of your work that you guys are doing.

00:07Always a hit or a miss, but every single one has been a hit over the past couple of years, so it's been...

00:27It's great when I don't feel bad when I do this one.

00:29I definitely don't.

00:30It's really bad when you do it when it's not a white person.

00:49We hit the ground running in November, December.

00:52We've educated tens of thousands of people directly ourselves as an institution,

00:57but we also went and trained over 300 organizations to also train other people on what their rights are.

01:05So we're doing the work that we have to in this moment to reach as many New Yorkers as possible,

01:10and really trying to make sure that we are empowering our communities to know what their rights are,

01:16but also what to do in these situations that they might find themselves in, unfortunately.

01:28You alright?

01:34Yeah.

01:37Hi!

01:50Yeah, I voted for the ceasefire. He was great with it.

01:57Yeah.

01:59Yeah.

02:02I come from a mixed status family, and some of my family members are having their own immigration challenges in this moment.

02:09I have a family member who has an ICE check-in tomorrow.

02:13So this is a very personal fight, and I understand what's at stake and at risk here.

02:28Yeah.

02:38Yeah.

02:40Yeah.

02:58Yeah.

02:59Yeah.

03:19For me, what helps me really stay grounded in the work

03:24is understanding that there are millions of people like me and my family

03:28who are doing everything that they can to do everything the right way,

03:32and came here for the American dream, but also the promise of America.

03:38And that promise and that dream have been too hard to reach for millions and millions of people.

03:55Yeah.

04:13So, how many seconds?

04:18Okay.

04:20No, you're in the neighborhood.

04:23Yeah.

04:28Unfortunately, the Trump administration rescinded the sensitive locations memo and the protected areas memo,

04:34which prohibited immigration enforcement from being conducted in sensitive locations, sacred locations.

04:40We are in a mosque right now, right?

04:43There should be no immigration enforcement in here.

04:47This is a sacred space, and I think that schools are sacred.

04:51I think that hospitals are sacred.

04:52I think that churches, mosques, temples, synagogues are all very sacred places.

05:14Maybe in a minute.

05:21He's the owner.

05:28The broad and diverse immigrant community here in New York, regardless of where you are,

05:33today we're in Bay Ridge, which is little Arabia, little Palestine,

05:37where you have some of the most delicious food that you will ever eat in your life outside of the Middle East.

05:44You can go one neighborhood across where you'll get the best Mexican food.

05:48You go in the same neighborhood a few avenues up, you'll be in the largest Chinatown in the United States.

05:54This is what New York City, what New York State has always been about.

05:58Our communities help make our state and our city what it is today,

06:04from our roads, our bridges, our skyscrapers, to the food we eat,

06:08from picking, packing, placing, stocking, and selling it in immigrant small businesses.

06:14This is what makes us who we are.

06:17Without immigrants, New York City and New York State would not be what it is today.

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