Highquality education, i attended and graduated lowell high school. Ive been given resources based on the hard work that my parents have sweat and sacrifice for. When i see these children sitting here today i dont see the face of an Illegal Immigrants were criminal. I see a human being who has the right to live a life with dignity respect and opportunity and success. Select them for you all to please look into your hearts and give us ordinance your positive votes. Thank you thank you. Im going to call a few names and i would does we have a pretty packed agenda so we can move the meeting quickly i would ask that instead of clapping if people could just show your support by waiting. I have a few names that im going to call on. [inaudible] cattle con. Maureen alder. Gracefully. Mary beth kaufman. Ms. Santos. If you can please sign up on our left, youre right. Bianca is here thank you good afternoon supervisors. I am here as public defender to imploring you to grant this relief and to fund
Able to scale up the number of cases they are referring and mentoring without additional funding and additional staff. Additional resources and commitment from firms will be meaningless unless the Legal Services organization received significant additional funding. We therefore respectfully request that you approve the supplemental funding for San Francisco Legal Services organization so they can expand their staff and resources and thereby leverage available open resources for children and families. My firm here in San Francisco are committed to being a part of the solution for this crisis and for helping to address this crisis. In representation for unaccompanied children. And families but additional funding for Legal Services organizations is crucial for assistance from the private part to have any value. Thank you. Hi my name is grace lee, policy director of chinese for affirmative action. Im here to reiterate our support for this effort. We talk about the national contacting now h
Law firm with 11 offices including 2 here in the bay area and San Francisco and palo alto. Im also a cofounder and board member of the National Association of pro bono counsel. Professional organization of attorneys managing pro bono practices at law firms around the country. It is in that capacity that im here today. On behalf of the association of pro bono counsel and our Law Firm Pro Bono counsel members, i would like to stress express the strong as possible support for the supplemental funding for Legal Services providers. Although many of our law firms already do promote pro bono work for children and families in the areas of asylum and guardianship and special immigrant juvenile status, we are not able to do that work on our own. We do not work in partnerships with Legal Services providers. Which provides training, screening, and mentoring, referral, and expertise. However, many of these organizations were already at capacity work on reduce staffing before this crisis. They are s
Association of pro bono counsel and our Law Firm Pro Bono counsel members, i would like to stress express the strong as possible support for the supplemental funding for Legal Services providers. Although many of our law firms already do promote pro bono work for children and families in the areas of asylum and guardianship and special immigrant juvenile status, we are not able to do that work on our own. We do not work in partnerships with Legal Services providers. Which provides training, screening, and mentoring, referral, and expertise. However, many of these organizations were already at capacity work on reduce staffing before this crisis. They are simply not able to scale up the number of cases they are referring and mentoring without additional funding and additional staff. Additional resources and commitment from firms will be meaningless unless the Legal Services organization received significant additional funding. We therefore respectfully request that you approve the supple
Many of our law firms already do promote pro bono work for children and families in the areas of asylum and guardianship and special immigrant juvenile status, we are not able to do that work on our own. We do not work in partnerships with Legal Services providers. Which provides training, screening, and mentoring, referral, and expertise. However, many of these organizations were already at capacity work on reduce staffing before this crisis. They are simply not able to scale up the number of cases they are referring and mentoring without additional funding and additional staff. Additional resources and commitment from firms will be meaningless unless the Legal Services organization received significant additional funding. We therefore respectfully request that you approve the supplemental funding for San Francisco Legal Services organization so they can expand their staff and resources and thereby leverage available open resources for children and families. My firm here in San Franci