Nydia Velázquez: “Thank you. Ms. Traub, as you know, many low- or moderate-income (LMI) communities and communities of color access credit…”

Today’s groundbreaking is the culmination of years of organizing by residents and community leaders for solutions to North Brooklyn's housing crisis.

I urge my colleagues not to engage in knee-jerk reactions that set back our real progress toward creating a more equitable criminal justice system.

We need to bring a national standard to ICE agents, and we need to bring transparency and accountability.

We would never accept it if the NYPD operated in masks without names or badges—and we shouldn't accept it from ICE either.