Providers. This is an area where having a lawyer makes an anonymous difference in outcome. If we as a city do not act now to increase the capacity of nonprofit providers result will be more wrongful deportations and in enormous social and Economic Cost to the city. I want to address a particular issue has come up in this discussion which of the role pro bono attorneys in meeting the needs of unaccompanied youth. The short answer is that for crisis of this magnitude the resources of the private bar critical as they are simply cannot close the justice that is why the patient is so essential. In the bay area were fortunate to have a strong proponent community is given the time and resources to a host of issues such as family law law landlord issues we work as a [inaudible] we know that that is an important complement to but never the replacement for the role of nonprofit attorneys. Last month we were fortunate to receive a grant through the city to the right to Counsel Program to assist w
Terms of letting them know that despite what they have gone through, that there is a role model who has also gone through similar circumstances and he is staying here as a supervisor and that things will get better. So i implore the committee to vote for this. It is definitely a human rights issue and we as the Interfaith Community will also participate in spreading the word and providing assistance. Thank you very much. Next speaker please good afternoon supervisor my name is oren osama legal director of the Lawyers Committee for civil rights. We strongly support this supplemental appropriation. As others have said, the need for representation of unaccompanied children families on the rocket docket is probably overwhelming the capacity of nonprofit providers. This is an area where having a lawyer makes an anonymous difference in outcome. If we as a city do not act now to increase the capacity of nonprofit providers result will be more wrongful deportations and in enormous social and E
Better. So i implore the committee to vote for this. It is definitely a human rights issue and we as the Interfaith Community will also participate in spreading the word and providing assistance. Thank you very much. Next speaker please good afternoon supervisor my name is oren osama legal director of the Lawyers Committee for civil rights. We strongly support this supplemental appropriation. As others have said, the need for representation of unaccompanied children families on the rocket docket is probably overwhelming the capacity of nonprofit providers. This is an area where having a lawyer makes an anonymous difference in outcome. If we as a city do not act now to increase the capacity of nonprofit providers result will be more wrongful deportations and in enormous social and Economic Cost to the city. I want to address a particular issue has come up in this discussion which of the role pro bono attorneys in meeting the needs of unaccompanied youth. The short answer is that for cri
Community will also participate in spreading the word and providing assistance. Thank you very much. Next speaker please good afternoon supervisor my name is oren osama legal director of the Lawyers Committee for civil rights. We strongly support this supplemental appropriation. As others have said, the need for representation of unaccompanied children families on the rocket docket is probably overwhelming the capacity of nonprofit providers. This is an area where having a lawyer makes an anonymous difference in outcome. If we as a city do not act now to increase the capacity of nonprofit providers result will be more wrongful deportations and in enormous social and Economic Cost to the city. I want to address a particular issue has come up in this discussion which of the role pro bono attorneys in meeting the needs of unaccompanied youth. The short answer is that for crisis of this magnitude the resources of the private bar critical as they are simply cannot close the justice that is
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