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As 2024 sets in, immigrant communities all over are bracing for a year of attacks and policy proposals that threaten to eliminate crucial protections and resources.

President Joe Biden and congressional leaders are considering cruel immigration policies. Extremist governors like Greg Abbott of Texas are enacting legislation that greenlights racial profiling and allows local enforcement to jail anyone thought to be a migrant. Closer to home, New York City Mayor Eric Adams is throwing asylum-seeking families and children onto the streets in the dead of winter.

That’s why it was disappointing that Gov. Kathy Hochul gave scant mention to immigrants and asylum seekers in her State of the State address: She missed a huge opportunity to demonstrate New York’s leadership on how we can and should best welcome newcomers into our communities.

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