NYC Council drops plan to auto-enroll in benefits over immigrant privacy fears

Fuente: New York Post

The City Council dropped a plan to automatically enroll New Yorkers in city benefits Thursday — instead passing a drastically pared-down bill over concerns it would be an invasion of immigrants’ privacy. The revised legislation, which unanimously passed the council, instead directs the Department of Social Services to study whether automatic-enrollment across city administered benefit programs is even feasible because of the overall privacy concerns. Several members of the Democratic-dominated legislature worried information from the auto-enroll benefits could be used by the federal government and sink immigrants’ green card applications.