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John Jay College—Bachelor of Arts in criminal justice
Data last updated 10/27/2026
Manual Williams was born in Manhattan, New York, lives in Harlem, and began serving in the United States Army in 2020. He is a certified paralegal who worked with several law firms and assisted prisoners in law libraries with their cases; before military service, he owned storefront businesses in Harlem.
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Manual Williams has limited public healthcare material available. Available voter-guide research describes him as supporting affordable access and treating healthcare as an essential baseline, while opposing a fully socialized healthcare system.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Williams is described as supporting affordable healthcare access and arguing that quality, affordable healthcare should help families avoid financial ruin.
SourceA candidate research profile summarizes Williams as supporting affordable care access while opposing fully socialized healthcare.
SourceManual Williams frames his Economy & Jobs agenda around “Universal Capitalism,” emphasizing private property, access to capital, guaranteed work for able-bodied citizens, reduced dependency on passive welfare, and support for local small businesses. He also links immigration, housing, and sanctuary-city policy to wages, unemployment, rent pressure, and displacement of working-class residents.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Williams supports a “Universal Capitalism” framework focused on direct wealth creation, capital access for working families, and expanding equal access to private-property ownership rather than socialism.
SourceWilliams supports replacing unconditional handouts with a work-based guarantee in which able-bodied citizens have a right to jobs contributing to infrastructure, public safety, and civic upkeep.
SourceWilliams supports expanding land and commercial-property opportunity, protecting local entrepreneurs from being priced out, reducing bureaucratic red tape, and prioritizing local ownership over corporate monopolies.
SourceWilliams supports data-driven pauses in local immigration processing when unemployment, housing shortages, or displacement of working-class citizens spike, arguing this would protect local wages and public resources.
SourceWilliams opposes NYC sanctuary status and argues sanctuary policies contribute to rent spikes, fiscal strain, corporate flight, and displacement of long-term working-class residents.
SourceManual Williams takes a restrictive, enforcement-oriented immigration stance: he opposes New York City sanctuary policies, supports federal border enforcement, and says immigration enforcement is the law of the land. He also says he would replace sanctuary status with a localized framework tied to the Dignity Act, including ideological vetting and pauses in local immigration processing based on economic and housing conditions.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Williams says he would move to repeal and cease New York City’s sanctuary status and replace it with a localized "Dignity City" framework.
SourceWilliams supports enforcing U.S. borders and frames border enforcement as a way to protect local working families.
SourceWilliams says he would add New York-specific provisions to the Dignity Act, including strict ideological vetting for candidates for legal status.
SourceWilliams proposes data-driven pauses in local immigration processing when indicators show adverse effects on unemployment, housing availability, or displacement of working-class citizens.
SourceWilliams tells non-citizens and immigrants to assimilate, respect the rule of law, and avoid extremist political groups that he says could jeopardize their legal status.
SourceNo publicly stated Manual Williams position on Climate & Energy was found in the searched campaign, BallotReady, or voter-guide sources.
Manual Williams’s education platform emphasizes opposition to multi-gender sexuality instruction in early education while supporting curriculum modernization through AI literacy and multicultural history. His publicly available materials frame education largely around school curriculum and gender-related policies rather than funding, teacher pay, or higher education access.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Williams states that early education should not include multi-gender sexuality ideology.
SourceWilliams supports modernizing school curricula with AI literacy and multicultural history.
SourceWilliams’s campaign materials list support for a biological two-gender standard in the section on school curricula and gender.
SourceManual Williams presents a law-and-order public safety platform: he opposes defunding police, supports fully funding public safety, and calls for a complete criminal justice system overhaul. He also links public safety to immigration enforcement and proposes repealing New York City’s sanctuary status while backing stricter local addendums to federal immigration legislation.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Williams states “No to Defund Police,” supports fully funding public safety, and calls for a complete criminal justice system overhaul.
SourceWilliams says he would move to repeal and cease New York City’s sanctuary status and replace it with a localized framework tied to addendums to the federal Dignity Act.
SourceWilliams’s public profile lists “Execute complete Criminal Justice System (CJS) Overhaul” as part of his Criminal Justice / Public Safety platform.
SourceThe Full Record characterizes Williams as supporting increased police funding and staffing based on his campaign statement opposing police defunding and backing full public safety funding.
SourceBranch
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FEC API
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OpenSecrets search results
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FEC candidate overview
https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H6NY13303/?cycle=2026&election_full=trueFetched: campaignFinance
iVoterGuide candidate profile: Jomo Manuel Williams
https://ivoterguide.com/candidate/94888/race/33821/election/1487Fetched: ratings
VoteWiser: Manual Williams - 2026 New York District 13 Candidate
https://votewiser.com/2026/NY/Manual_WilliamsFetched: candidate identity
Smarter.Vote
https://smarter.vote/races/ny-house-13-2026/compare/?candidates=darializa-avila-chevalier,manual-williamsFetched: issuePositions
The Full Record
https://www.thefullrecord.org/guide/race/us-house-ny-13/manual-williamsFetched: issuePositions
Ballotpedia
https://ballotpedia.org/New_York%27s_13th_Congressional_District_election,_2026Fetched: candidateProfile