Letter Urges Governor to Restore Budget Cuts, Deploy Revenue Shortfall Reserve
Dear Governor Kemp,
The proposed budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 includes $1.2 billion in continued cuts from FY 2020 state spending to programs and services across Georgia. At a time when millions of families are experiencing greater needs due to the pandemic, this budget would underfund Georgia’s schools, services for Georgians with disabilities, anti-poverty programs, public safety and more.
Georgians need more support from the state, especially after budget cuts of approximately $1.7 billion are expected to be implemented during the 2021 fiscal year. An equitable economic recovery is important for every Georgian and critical for the state’s future. These budget cuts and policy choices put Georgia’s future at risk.
Maeve in America: A Miracle Worth Repeating
Being granted asylum should not be miraculousâit should be guaranteed.
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On December 21, Clive and Oneita Thompson, a married couple from Jamaica, walked free after more than two years of taking sanctuary in a Philadelphia church. The federal government had finally dropped its deportation case against them.
In the 2020 fiscal year, only around 3,000 people were granted asylum in the United States, an all-time low, according to the U.S. Department of State.
âWhen we got the letter from [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement], I was just looking at it in shock,â Clive Thompson said in a statement. âItâs a big breakthroughâafter working so long, this is a miracle. I feel like all the stress is drifting away, and everything is lighting up with joy.â
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Sanctuary movement leaders sue U.S., claiming religious rights violated
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Communities and congregations around the country, some spurred to action by anti-immigrant rhetoric in 2016, are working together to assist immigrants who are fighting deportation. File Photo by Justin Hamel/UPI | License Photo
Feb. 1 (UPI) Four women who came to the United States seeking asylum from persecution in their home countries allege in a federal lawsuit that Trump administration officials targeted them with exorbitant civil fines because they took sanctuary in churches and spoke out against unjust and punitive deportation orders.
The Austin Sanctuary Network in Texas and the Philadelphia-based Free Migration Project also are plaintiffs in the suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19, the day before President Joe Biden took the oath of office. Officials with the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are named as defe