The Briefing Room
General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on June 20, 2017, 01:43:36 pm
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LA County leaders may spend millions to defend immigrants facing deportation
By Susan Abram, Los Angeles Daily News
Posted: 06/18/17, 2:41 AM PDT | Updated: 1 day ago
Six months after Los Angeles city and county leaders proposed a legal defense fund to help people facing deportation, the Board of Supervisors is expected to vote Tuesday to authorize contributing $3 million to the collection over the next two years.
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/social-affairs/20170618/la-county-leaders-may-spend-millions-to-defend-immigrants-facing-deportation
The Board almost voted on allocating county money to the LA Justice Fund in April to help undocumented immigrants and others threatened with deportation. But they postponed their decision after questions were raised within the motion, including who would benefit from the fund. One pending concern was if the money should go toward defending undocumented immigrants with criminal
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Only in Californicatia.
Spending money you don't have to defend those who should not be there.......