One of our Public Offices who has joined us. David, thank you for being here this evening. As always speak pelosi is a champion of immigrant rights and immigrant needs, so we thank you for being here on her behalf. Okay, our next speaker is carol bisharat from kids in need of descents. Good evening. I am a direct representation attorney, my name is carol bisharat, for kids in need of defense and from our San Francisco i offices. We are a National Nonprofit that has ten offices across the country dedicated to the representation of unaccompanied minors, who are in proceedings for the Immigration Court. I have some prepared remarks, which i am willing to share, in an electronic fashion i will forward them to elaina for distribution to each of you. There is more information than i can relay in of short amount of time that i have to speak with you. There are so much to say, for what is going on on the ground, what kinds of changes both policy and procedures that have detrimentally affected
Started threatening and abusing the rights of u. S. Citizens, in three different dimensions. We dont have the right, in the first place, as a government to deny egress to citizens. We dont have the right to discriminate, and further to against support for human rights that we fought world war ii established, it is just gross and detestable, frankly. I urge each of you to support the resolution that is being introduced. I want to applaud the board of supervisors and you for supporting Face Surveillance that was recently put in place. Those kinds of measures to deny data to i. C. E. , is a further expression of our sanctuary commitments. Thank you. [applause] at this point i would like to think all of our invited speakers and all of those that gave it community on this issue. There are many facets to this conversation, there are many struggles, there is a very long and difficult road, there are many Difficult Conversations that need to be had as we figure out the best way to support our
It also looks at all cachet, just not federal cachet, but state or local cash assistance programs and barring some of them getting a green card or entering the United States. It English Proficiency as a positive factor or lack of proficiency has a negative factor. It would look at medical conditions, whether or not they have private Health Insurance and whether or not theyve ever used a fee waiver to waive a filing fee for past immigration application. It would also allow to potentially overcome a public charge determination if they pay a bond, the minimum amount of which would be 8,100. The rule will not take effect until midoctober, until that time, all pending green card applications and those that are postmarked before that date, october 15, 2019 will be adjudicated under what our current standards for public charge. As i mentioned, under existing policy, the only programs i look at our federal cachet that people receive, and whether or not they are in long term institutionalized c
By muni officials come on the bus. Free phones, and emergency phones area we need to create an adequately fund a centralized asylum and Refugee Program to welcome this community and offer support so they do not feel so alone. We need a place where we conduct and takes and assess their nee needs, offer linkages, introduce them to city services, educate them on their rights and how to file grievances, and automatically enroll them into free services. We need training to staff who can help them understand asylum proceedings and attorney searches, and accompany them to federal appointments so they are not further victimized. I know this has been discussed a little bit, but not so much. Susanna rivero can attest more, after, if we have questions. The amount of time that we have to spend telling families that there are no lawyers available to them, that they need to file their own asylum, that they need to search for attorneys and write it all down, even though they probably will not find on
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