Brian Laird on W.N. Y.C. Now we're going to continue the conversation we had

Wednesday night in case you tuned in or in case you missed it when we

introduced the winners of the fourth annual Laird Prize for Community Well-being. the This year the theme was helping the asylum seekers are estimated 175,000 new neighbors

arriving courtesy of Texas Governor Greg Abbott since 2022. So whatever you think about US immigration policy,

I think we can all understand and agree

that these are human beings who undertook

a dangerous trip because they thought

getting here would be better than

staying where they were. We asked you for nominations. Some of you remember we did

that on the air back in the fall and we had the hard task of narrowing that list because there were a lot of people

who stepped up to help the asylum seekers narrowing that list to three winners but we managed and we're joined now by the

leaders of the three organizations we cited for doing this hard work. They are

Power Malu founder of artists Artists, Athletes, Activists,

one of the groups that actually meets the migrants

when they first arrive in New York City

by bus or more recently train on their first steps on New York Soil, if you can call Port Authority Soil,

Nula O'Dahadinorranho, an attorney community activist and the founder of the Jackson Heights

Immigrant Center who holds workshops to

walk new immigrants 40 at a time through the process of applying for asylum and

eventually qualifying for work permits and he says and largest number of the recent asylum seekers do come from Venezuela.

His group offers weekly hornadas, work day projects,

to connect new arrivals with needed services

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