Wow. They said, no one in the country is doing what you're doing. We're gonna write a letter to Washington and say the country needs to follow your model. We fed, housed clothes, educated 40,000 children, put people on the pathway for citizenship. What we did with 230,000 people, 190,000 have left our care and went on to the next journey. What we did, no one in the country was doing. (41:44–41:53)
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Asserts that New York City provided extensive support to migrants, including education and pathways to citizenship.
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