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04:28Unfortunately, the Trump administration rescinded the sensitive locations memo and the protected areas memo,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