NEWYORK: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that his administration is proud that NYC is an immigrant city urging citizen to apply for the city’s free child care program.
Addressing a roundtable about the city’s child care programs before the applicant window for free pre-K and 3-K closes, Mayor said that he want to be very clear that we are proud to be an immigrant city.
Mayor Mamdani said that we are encouraging everyone to apply to, to see themselves as a part of and to know that we are going to use every single law that we have here to protect the health and safety of everyone who signs up.
Mamdani’s comments come following Donald Trump’s administration carries out a series of immigration enforcement operations in major cities.
To a question about immigrant issue as well as recent Ramos incident in which federal agents took a five years old boy, Mamdani said that we have rights in this city, especially as it pertains to our sanctuary city policies.
“These are rights that I will take every opportunity to share with New Yorkers, because it’s just like, if you don’t know about universal child care, if you don’t know about your rights, then you’ll never use them,” he said.
“I’ll tell you that the impact in our education system of this fear that has taken hold over the last few years, it can literally look like a decline in attendance rates at schools. What it can also look like is a permanent state of anxiety for New Yorkers, many of whom have shared this with me, especially undocumented New Yorkers, of whenever they leave their home,”Mamdani said at roundtable conference.
Earlier this month, Mamdani and Democratic New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that they would partner to deliver free child care for 2-year-olds in New York City, in addition to strengthening the existing 3-K program with the goal of achieving universal care.
New York City families with kids turning 3 or 4 years old this year can apply for free child care at myschools.nyc.
