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A Board of California Unanimously voted to assign millions of dollars for services aimed at protecting illegal immigrants and refugees in the community.
The Alameda County Supervisors Board in Oakland decided at Tuesday’s regular meeting about $ 2.2 million for communities in their area in response to the repression of President Donald Trump about illegal immigration, at the request of the Ad Hoc County of the Board, Alameda County for all the committee.
“I am committed, and I think that the supervisor (Elisa) Márquez also undertakes to ensure that the Board, the public, has more information and that this work is really effective to reach each person in this community that is potentially at risk,” said Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, president of the Committee, at the meeting.
Elisa Márquez (left) supervisor, Nikki Fortunato Bas (right) supervisor. (Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas / Facebook)
The minutes of the meeting show that the Board approved the use of $ 50,000 to the legal reach of the Pacific Asian island to “provide legal services and defense of defense Communities of marginalized immigrants. “ The money is removed from the District 5 Savings Fund of the previous year and the services and funds of discretionary supplies.
The Board also approved up to $ 700,000 to be used by the legal center of the breed to establish a quick response line, know its rights training sessions, Preventive legal services and coordination of the response of the community of community volunteers.
The organization describes itself as a “legal services agency that protect and advance the rights of low -income communities, immigrants, blacks and Latinas through bilingual legal representation, education and defense.”
Tuesday’s approval is produced after the Alameda County Supervisors Board approved $ 1.3 million in February for illegal immigrants facing deportation. (FBI)
United Workers United workers was also approved for up to $ 500,000 to be used in “resources and preparation for immigrants and refugees communities, including training, mutual help and neighborhood resources.”
“Tuwu believes in defending the power of working class immigrants through the falsification of class consciousness and the growth of the leadership of low -salaries immigrant workers,” says the organization on its website. “Tuwu seeks to abolish exploitation in the workplace through organization, political education and direct action that changes power at the hands of the working class.”
California’s collaboration for immigrant justice also received up to $ 1 million for legal services.
According to its website, the CCIJ mission is “to use coordination, defense and legal services to fight for the release of immigrants in detention in California.”
“For community work, the proposal is that the county would finance half of the budget of one year and there is a collection of private funds to finance the other half,” said Fortunato Bas, partly.
Supervisor David Haubert said that financing is “a community effort” and that it is being possible through a “public/private association”, emphasizing that the financial burden is not only in the county.
Fortunato Bas said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that a third of Alameda County residents are immigrants and “half of our children grow in a home with at least one immigrant father.”
“We are a diverse county and our community needs protection. Federal administration policies are causing fear among our residents,” he wrote, in part. “The unanimous vote of the Supervisors Board demonstrates our county’s commitment to our communities of immigrants and refugees, which will have more access to critical information, services and legal support.”
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The money approved on Tuesday occurs after the Board authorized $ 1.3 million in February for the Immigration Unit of the Alameda County Public Defenders Office, which provides deportation and legal services defense to illegal immigrants who face deportation, According to the NBC bay area.
