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Welcome back to this episode of Power and Politics, everyone. I'm Amanda Bossard. Heated moments at the state capitol this week when President Trump's border czar Tom Holman showed up to push the federal immigration crackdown and push back on local policies that he says impede those enforcement efforts. Joining us now to talk about it is someone who was there, Assembly member Landon Days from the Bronx. Assembly member, thanks so much for taking time and being with us here on Power and Politics this week. Thank you for having me. I love this opportunity and thank you for bringing light to the situation that's going on right here in New York. Yeah, so let's start with what happened up in Albany this week and that charged environment we saw in the video there in the Capitol during Tom Holman's visit. What did you make of the reaction that he got to just being in the Capitol? Well, the one thing you saw was a coalition of democratic, uh, lawmakers from across the state, white, black, Spanish, Asian, Latino, uh, different religions. Most importantly, what we realize is that their policies are hurting all New Yorkers from our farm districts to upstate to our local businesses down here in the city. And even to the areas in the suburbs. This isn't an issue that is uniting the democratic coalition here in New York that we realized. We, listen, we want to secure borders. If someone's a criminal, a violent criminal, we do not want them in New York. But we do not want to separate families. We do not want to separate hardworking New Yorkers who have been here for many years and are being positive New Yorkers. We want to protect them and we stood up to let them. Know that we are going to protect them in our schools, our places of worship, hence why I'm here right now. I'm at one of the largest mosques in my district. I have one of the largest West African communities. The Yang Tasso mosque is one of my biggest supporters, and I wanted to come here and show them today that I'm supporting them. We did a food pantry today. They need to see that they're elected officials. I'm here with City councilwoman Seina Sanchez, and we're demonstrating to them that we're standing up for them. And let's elaborate on that a little bit more. What conversations have you been having with constituents in your district as this new presidential administration's immigration enforcement policies have been playing out? We've seen them play out right here at home in the Bronx. Yeah, so one issue today, for example, um, I was at a school and these kids who were K through 3 wrote issues that they're dealing with. And most of them were about in the streets, some about crime, and one of the questions were, will you protect my family if they're not citizens? Now, here's a little 9 year old child asking me, will I help protect their family. And so that stood out to me. And so the conversation we talked about is know your rights. I'm an attorney. I want people to follow the law, right? I also want them to know their constitutional rights, and I'm always gonna fight for them on that. And the one thing my community knows that I fight for them, and in the budget, I'm making sure there's money in there to make sure that immigrant rights and immigrant defense fund is funded so our our hardworking immigrants in New York have resources to help them in this hard time. We're going to talk about the budget in just a second, but I want to bounce back to what happened up in Albany this week and Tom Holman being there essentially to push for more cooperation between the state and the feds on immigration enforcement. Do you think that message resonated? Is it something that you now expect to come up in budget negotiations as that process plays out? I don't think so. The, uh, the governor stood firm and I, I gotta give credit to Governor Hokle. We are clear that we are not gonna give up our DMV records. Like we said, we are all in favor of deporting anyone that's committed a violent crime in our state. We agree with that. However, we're gonna make sure that we, uh, defend our community, and I think that was clear. In that message at a press conference in Auburn, you touched on this just a short while ago, but any legislation that's on the table or is being considered right now, perhaps in response to Holman's visit, I know the New York for All Act is something that was proposed a few years ago to protect against sharing people's immigration status. Do you think that will now be revisited given all that is developing? I think there's gonna be conversation around New York for all. The number one that I'm focusing also is the census. President Trump wants to uh put a question about citizenship. The Supreme Court has ruled on this. This is about if you are in the United States. My family, I'm a descendant of slaves. We were 3/5 of a person, uh, prior to the emancipation, right? So the has already ruled on this and the reason why the census matters so much to me, I wanna make sure that our immigrant community is counted because that's funding for our schools, for our roads. This is not a downstate or democratic or Republican issue. This is a New York issue. I wanna make sure every New York is counting. That's why I'm pushing hard for the governor to open up a census office in the in the Secretary of State's, uh, office because we. We need to make sure that we don't lose any congressional seats and that we get the funding necessary for our communities and by making sure our immigrant communities are comfortable uh uh participating in census, we'll make sure we get the funding to improve our schools, to fix our roads, to create more programs, to make sure that we have proper Medicaid funding. And on top of that, the New York for all, we gotta make sure we protect the green law. Having them have driver's licenses is in for and for their safety and their ability to participate in the economic, um, in, in the economic uh engine that is in New York, and we can't take that away from them. I want to bounce back now to the budget at large, the assembly releasing its version of it this week. What are some of the highlights in it for you and priorities that you're gonna be pushing for now during those negotiations? Yeah, so I'm trying to bring more money to the broth, uh, you know, the Brock Children Museum got some money in my district. Our local schools, we got really good funding for the schools. I think we are happy with the overall funding level for the schools, but I wanna make sure that we can do more. Last year I was able to get $2 million for for 10 STEM labs and District School District 9. I want to expand that, and I think with the amount of money that we're getting in the uh school budget, I'm hoping that the city BOE will put a focus on STEM programming, especially in the Bronx. Some other big thing is a lot of money for Michella in my district, that's uh River Park Towers, which has over 1500 apartments and Finley houses. I'm hoping that some of that money from there will help, uh, do renovations because we need to make sure that our housing stock is clean, free of molds and and and rodents, and we need to make sure that leaks and things like that are done. So we're working hard on that. Also, there's a lot of uh money in there for public safety and also making green space and uh infrastructure dollars. I want to cap the uh crosswalk Expressway to make the bars cleaner and healthier, so that's something that we're working on to make sure that we can do those changes. A lot to look forward to and a lot of conversations to come. Assembly member Landon Days, thanks so much for your time, and we look forward to checking back in with you as the budget process plays out. Thank you so much. We appreciate the time and like I always say to my community, we see you, we hear you, we'll always fight for you. Thank you and thank you so much. Coming up, a special election is happening in Brooklyn, and early voting is already underway. We're breaking down who's on the ballot when power and politics returns. Stay with us.

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Welcome back to Power and Politics, as early voting is happening right now for a special election for city council in Brooklyn's forty-fourth district. News Twelve's Rob Flax breaks down the candidates looking to take over assembly member Kalman Jaeger's old seat. New York's 44th council district seat special election sees Republican Ay Tishler going up against Democratic state senator Simha Felder. U2 his requests for an interview with Felder were unsuccessful, but his Senate site touts his record, including funding for door to door school bus services and more funding for parents to help school their children. Tischler is hoping. His key issues can help flip the conservative Democratic seat Republican. A top issue for him better use of police funds to help fight anti-Semitism. Almost a billion dollars is for overtime. We could use our people properly. We can have the police when they patrol to specially patrol different synagogues, especially children's schools. As a developer, he wants to go after. Restrictive zoning in the community and stop projects he says threatens property values like shelters. Let them build. I want everybody to be able to build more than they can, but 30% even in a private home that you're gonna take in must go for affordable housing. I wanna stop that shelter. You have one here already. You tricked us? No more. I'm not gonna let you ruin my property value because I. I'm a resident of this community, he says. As a council member, he'll push for more city funding for after school programs run by community organizations. Our families have to run home at 3 o'clock and pick up their kids, and even if they don't do that, they're in trouble. I want aftercare programs to go to 6 o'clock so our working families can make a living and not go on welfare and not go on Medicaid. Election Day is March 25th with early voting starting the 15th in Borough Park. Rob Flax. And he's 12 Brooklyn. All right, so that election is underway right now. Rob, thank you. Expanding on the topic of that homeless shelter, around 200 people shouted in opposition to that plan this week in Borough Park. It is supposed to be a family shelter that would fit up to 82 homeless families. The Department of Homeless Services tells News 12 that the site will be run by a nonprofit which will provide services to those living inside and opportunities to transition into more permanent housing. The shelter though is close to a school, which is why many of the neighbors say they are up in arms. But amongst the loud nose, one person was visibly in support of the shelter. Alex Shay lives on that block too. I think the shelter system works well. People who don't like the idea of homeless shelters should look at other cities where there are giant homeless encampments. I think in terms of risks to a community, risks to public safety, those are substantially worse. DHS tells us the shelter is planned to open in mid 2025, and they promised the shelter will be secure with security guards and cameras. That's all for this week here on Power and Politics on News 12. Thanks for watching.

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