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Natalia Aristizabal-Betancur: New York Wants Immigration Juustice

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Non-citizens can vote in New York City elections. NY State provides pandemic aid through an Excluded Workers Fund. How did this happen? Natalia Aristizabal-Betancur of the Center for Popular Democracy talks with host Jennifer Disla on this week’s Frontline Dispatches.

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Natalia Aristizabal-Betancur

Natalia Aristizabal-Betancur is the Campaign Director for immigrant Justice at the Center for Popular Democracy.

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Immigrant Rights

About the Host

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Jennifer Disla
Jennifer Disla

Jennifer Disla currently serves as co-executive director of Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice, a new initiative of the City University of New York. A Center for Community Change GenChange alumna, Jen started organizing in 2008 with the Healthcare for America Now Campaign in Missouri. She went on to work as a labor organizer with SEIU Local 1, where she worked on contract campaigns in Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, and Indiana, and as co-executive director of Detroit Action. She is a member of Organization for Black Struggle, Missouri Jobs with Justice and Missouri Immigrant and Refugee Advocates.