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OUR FIGHT FOR PROTECTION
FROM INJUSTICE
PROTECT OUR NEIGHBORS
We’re Protecting Our Neighbors by standing up for immigrant families and working-class communities who deserve safety and stability. We’re expanding legal protections, increasing funding for immigrant defense programs, strengthening tenant safeguards, and preventing discrimination in housing and the workplace. Protection should mean security and belonging, not fear and separation.
Create Safe Access Zones in Schools, Hospitals, and Shelters
New York City public schools serve hundreds of thousands of immigrant and first-generation students. Hospitals and shelters are lifelines for vulnerable families. Yet following federal enforcement surges in recent years, documented courthouse and near-facility enforcement activity created widespread fear in immigrant communities across the state.
Parents should not fear dropping their child off at school. Patients should not avoid medical care because of enforcement concerns.
We will codify safe access zones around schools, hospitals, courthouses, and shelters to prevent immigration enforcement activity in and around essential community spaces.
Expand Emergency Family Protection & Rapid Response Services
When a parent is detained, families often lose their primary income overnight. Studies consistently show that children in detention-impacted households experience housing instability, food insecurity, and long-term emotional trauma. New York has thousands of residents move through immigration detention systems annually, and each case affects an entire family.
Communities need structured response, not chaos.
We will establish rapid response networks that provide emergency legal intervention, childcare coordination, rental assistance, and crisis counseling for families impacted by detention.
Prohibit Immigration Enforcement in Courthouses
After federal policy shifts beginning in 2017, immigration enforcement in and around courthouses increased significantly in New York State. Legal advocates reported that fear of arrest caused victims, witnesses, and defendants to avoid appearing in court, undermining public safety and due process.
When people stop showing up to court out of fear, justice breaks down.
We will prohibit civil immigration enforcement in and around courthouses so individuals can access the justice system without fear of detention.
Prohibit All Local Cooperation with ICE
Immigrants make up roughly 36 percent of New York City’s population, and in the Bronx, thousands of families live in mixed-status households. Despite sanctuary policies, cooperation loopholes and data sharing between local systems and federal immigration authorities have historically led to detainers, transfers, and enforcement actions.
Information collected for public safety, housing, or health services should never become a pipeline to detention.
We will permanently prohibit NYPD and all city and state agencies from cooperating with ICE, sharing non-public data, or honoring civil immigration detainers to ensure local systems protect residents rather than expose them.