A Californian plate Unanimously voted to allocate millions of dollars for services aimed at protecting illegal immigrants and refugees in the community.
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors in Oakland decided during the regular meeting on Tuesday to set aside around $ 2.2 million for communities in their region in response to President Donald Trump against illegal immigration, at the request of the AD HOC Alameda County for all committee.
“I am dedicated, and I believe that Supervisor (Elisa) Marquez is also dedicated to ensure that the board, the public, has more information and that this work is really effective to reach every person in this community that may risk,” said Nikki Fortunato Bas, chairman of the committee, said during the meeting.
Supervisor Elisa Marquez (left), supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas (right). (Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas / Facebook)
Minutes of the meeting show that the board has approved the use of $ 50,000 to the Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach to offer “legal services and advocacy marginalized immigrant communities. “ The money is achieved from the District 5 previous year Spaarfonds and the discretionary services and supplies funds.
The board also approved $ 700,000 to be used by Centro Legal de la Raza to set up a quick response hotline, to get to know your rights training sessions, Preventive legal services and coordination of the voluntary network of the community.
The organization describes itself as a “legal service agency that protects and promotes rights of low incomes, immigrant, black and Latinx communities through bilingual legal representation, education and advocacy.”
The approval on Tuesday comes after the Alameda County Board of Supervisors approved $ 1.3 million in February for illegal immigrants who are confronted with deportation. (FBI)
Trabajadores Unidos Workers United was also approved for a maximum of $ 500,000 to be used for “resources and preparation for immigrant and refugee communities, including training, mutual help and neighborhood sources.”
“Tuwu believes in maintaining the power of workers’ migrants by forging class consciousness and growing the leadership of low wages immigrant workers,” says the organization on its website. “Tuwu tries to abolish exploitation in the workplace by organizing, political education and direct action that shifts power to the hands of the working class.”
The California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice was also given up to $ 1 million for legal services.
According to its website, the Mission of the CCIJ is to use “coordination, advocacy and legal services to fight for the liberation of immigrants in detention in California.”
“For community work, the proposal that the province would finance half of the one -year budget and that private fundraising takes place to finance the other half,” said Fortunato Bas, partially.
Supervisor David Haubert said that the financing is “a community effort” and is made possible by a “public/private partnership”, and do not only emphasize the financial burden on the province.
Fortunato Bas said on Wednesday in a Facebook message that a third of the inhabitants of Alameda are County immigrants and “half of our children grow up in a household with at least one immigrant parent.”
“We are a diverse county and our community needs protection. The policy of the federal government causes fear among our residents,” she wrote in part. “The unanimous voice of the Council of Supervisors shows the dedication of our province to our immigrant and refugee communities, which will have more access to critical information, services and legal support.”
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The money approved on Tuesday comes after the board has authorized $ 1.3 million for the immigration unit of the Alameda County Public Defender Office, which offers deportation defense and legal services to illegal immigrants who are confronted, deportation, According to NBC Bay Area.
