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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
S04538Enacts 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.
Creates grants, training programs, and infrastructure specifically to expand immigration legal services and representation capacity for noncitizens 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 enacts the BUILD act to fund workforce development, training, technical assistance, coordination, and infrastructure exclusively for expanding legal representation and defense against deportation for immigrants and noncitizens. This has no provisions on firearms, transgender issues, or abortion. It does not directly alter state-federal cooperation, create state immigration crimes, mandate E-Verify, or change detention/transport rules, but it substantively restricts immigration enforcement outcomes by scaling up legal capacity to contest removals; the two tags capture the distinct but
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