FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 25, 2023
The Building Congress has joined a unique group of organizations representing various sectors of New York City to demand the federal government expand Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in order to grant immediate access to work authorizations for recently arrived asylum seekers.
"New York's building industry has always been supported by the waves of immigration that carried families, like mine, across our five boroughs as they pursued the American dream,” said our President & CEO Carlo A. Scissura, Esq.
“Work authorization for asylum seekers is a common sense solution that will ease the stress on our public sector while allowing new arrivals to be independent, help fuel local economies, and give back to their new communities.
"We call on President Biden and the administration to work with Mayor Adams, Gov. Hochul and local partners to expedite TPS so that we can fully live up to the city’s legacy as a place where anybody with that same dream can call home.”
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