Brooklyn lawmakers say that the current aid that President Joe Biden and his administration has provided to Pakistan amid devastating floods is not enough and say hundreds of millions more is needed.

Lawmakers like Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso said Friday that the additional funding would provide critical support to Pakistan to start the rebuilding process.

Brooklyn officials want the federal funding to be increased to $160 million from the initial $30 million already committed.

The unprecedented flooding in Pakistan has highlighted the increasing impact climate change is inflicting across the world and the need for countries to start thinking about climate infrastructure.

“We need to be thinking of climate change in a real way. No one, no one in any models that existed on climate change, predicted that this type of catastrophe could happen,” Reynoso said. “And it’s because the efforts on climate change and the repercussions of climate change are unpredictable.”

On top of the funding, lawmakers are also calling on the federal government to grant the country Temporary Protected Status. The immigration status would make it so that Pakistani nationals already in the US do not have to return home amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

“The severe threat of water-borne disease is looming and recovery faltering at the local level. Designating TPS is the humane and moral choice for the president’s administration,” said Brooklyn Rep. Yvette Clarke, who represents the largest Pakistani population of any district in the country, according to her office.

Brooklyn is home to one of the largest populations of Pakistanis outside of the country, with many of them calling Flatbush, Brooklyn home. The area has even been dubbed “Little Pakistan” in honor of the growing community.

Clarke said that there is currently a letter circulating among members of Congress to support the new immigration designation for Pakistan. The letter will eventually be delivered to Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, who has the authority to designate TPS status to the country.

In the meantime, local Pakistani organizations are calling on all New Yorkers to help in the recovery efforts by donating goods or directly giving to relief efforts.

“Right now I’m talking feeling sad. The world everyone needs to wake up. The same way we wake up for Haiti, Ukraine, it’s time for Pakistan,” said Rohail Khalid, president of the Pakistani American Law Enforcement Society.