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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
A02689Enacts the building up immigrant legal defense or BUILD act to provide competitive workforce development and capacity building grants to eligible entities that are seeking to expand access to representation for individuals facing deportation by increasing the workforce and strengthening the legal services infrastructure needed to provide such representation.
Expands funding and infrastructure for legal representation of noncitizens facing deportation, which limits the practical effect of federal immigration enforcement by increasing successful defenses against removal.
award competitive workforce development and capacity building grants to eligible entities that are seeking to expand access to representation for individuals facing deportation by increasing the workforce and strengthening the legal services infrastructure needed to provide such representation.
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=No change to immigration enforcementmodel confidence 70%
Creates grants, advisory committee, and capacity-building programs specifically to expand immigration legal services for those at risk of deportation.
Funds awarded under this paragraph shall be used only to develop immigration legal services infrastructure and a workforce scaled up to sustainably meet the changing immigration legal representation needs of noncitizen new Americans.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill funds grants and infrastructure solely to increase legal representation and defense capacity for individuals facing deportation; this has no provisions on state-federal cooperation, E-Verify, border operations, or other listed immigration-enforcement subtopics, but the representation focus restricts enforcement outcomes while being neutral on the enforcement axis itself.
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