A self-described immigrant who "advocate[s] for legal immigration," he lists "illegal immigration" among the district's top problems. He wrote in 2024: "we have to stop inviting everyone else's problems, we are out of resources... We need to help our own needy first." He opposed migrant-shelter siting in the district. His 2025-26 bill list contains no pro- immigrant services measures. No H-1B comment found (Patch, Oct 2024; nysenate.gov).

Led sustained, visible opposition to the city's 150-bed men's shelter at 2501 86th St in Bensonhurst: rallies with Rep. Malliotakis and Community Board 11, and publicizing a stop-work order at the site. Held a town hall on the New Utrecht Library redevelopment. Sponsored small-business and small-landlord-leaning bills (storefront security-gate limits, housing-court changes). No record on Industry City rezoning or Sunset Park displacement (Brooklyn Eagle, Mar 2026). Rating basis: Shelter opposition is a documented local stance, but opposition alone is not proof of displacement prevention, net housing supply or a specific safety remedy. Limited neighborhood record, not automatic supportive 4.

At the Oct 2025 Bensonhurst rally he defended Gifted & Talented programs and the specialized-high-school track against proposed elimination, noting these schools "produced 15 Nobel prize winners." Chinese-language press reports he vows to keep pushing G&T expansion. Sponsored S9494 (state help for entities using federal K-12 scholarship tax credits). No explicit Hecht-Calandra/SHSAT bill, so the 1971 law itself is unaddressed (BK Reader, Oct 2025).

Voted Aye on the Language Access Expansion Act (S5535) on April 2, 2025 and April 1, 2026. It would expand government translation and interpreter requirements; it remains in Assembly committee, not law. His office published 2025 accounts of multilingual constituent help, including Mandarin translation; January 2025 reporting described free notary service. Current routine availability was not verified. (NY Senate; office accounts; Sing Tao). Rating basis: Two direct floor Ayes on language-access expansion. Pending bill and dated constituent help, not enacted availability.

Public safety is his signature issue: an inaugural-month vow to overhaul bail, the Senate Republican Conference's 2026 "SAVE NY" agenda (repeal cashless bail, restrict parole for violent offenders), and S9938 on transit sentencing. In July 2026 he personally intervened to stop a violent street assault. Community ties include honoring the NYPD Asian Jade iety's 45th anniversary. No hate-crime-statute sponsorship found; the 2020 hate-crime- l bill was Gounardes/Eichenstein, not Chan (nysenate.gov; CBS New York, Jul 2026).

Never held legislative office. No state-level record on immigrant-services funding, sanctuary policy or driver's-license debates was found in the checked sources. No H-1B comment was found.

Rated on statements only. Front-line organizer of the opposition to the 2501 86th St men's shelter and anchors the community group against it. During the March 2026 night demolition confrontation he was pushed down alongside a 70-year-old woman, then accompanied the non-English-speaking senior to Coney Island Hospital until 4:30 a.m. His platform targets rising commercial rents and vacant storefronts on neighborhood corridors. No positions found on Industry City rezoning or residential rezonings (Documented, Mar 2026; amNY). Rating basis: Same shelter-opposition boundary as Chan. Assistance to an injured resident is not land- use policy; commercial-rent concerns add a limited neighborhood position.

Rated on statements only. Defended Gifted & Talented and accelerated programs at the October 2025 rally. His current platform also proposes a specialized high-school campus in South Brooklyn, expanded afterschool access and paid peer tutoring, including bilingual matching. A specific Hecht-Calandra amendment or SHSAT bill was not verified. (campaign platform; rally).

His education platform proposes state grant-funded peer tutors and actively matching bilingual tutors to families in Cantonese, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish and Arabic. That is a specific language-access commitment in education, not a general multilingual-ballot or government-services plan. Earlier personal language assistance and Chinese-language outreach are separate. (campaign platform). His public-locker proposal also calls for multilingual interfaces and in-person sign-up in Cantonese, Mandarin, Russian and Spanish, coordinated through immigrant-serving groups and senior centers. [locker-access platform] Rating basis: Specific state-funded bilingual tutoring plus multilingual public-locker interfaces and in- person signup. Clear public-services language-access proposals, not just campaign translation.

His platform proposes expanding secure public delivery lockers, prioritizing theft-prone buildings and seniors using NYPD data, plus a paid youth Civic Stewardship Corps presented as crime prevention. These are specific public-safety proposals, not hate-crime legislation or enacted results. Hands-on assistance during the shelter confrontation is separate. [package theft] [safety platform] Rating basis: Specific secure-locker theft prevention and youth-employment crime-prevention proposals under broadJustice. No hate-crime bill or enacted result claimed.