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Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer proposes immigrant legal defense program
The proposed initiative the Immigrant Rights Legal Defense Program - - is intended to help address the current backlog in immigration courts.
Credit: ACLU San Diego via Twitter Author: City News Service Updated: 5:45 PM PDT April 27, 2021
SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. San Diego County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer introduced a plan Tuesday intended to make San Diego the first southern border county in the United States with a program to provide legal representation for immigrants facing removal proceedings. Lawson-Remer announced the plan during a news conference outside the Otay Mesa Detention Center.
The proposed initiative the Immigrant Rights Legal Defense Program - - is intended to help address the current backlog in immigration courts, while also saving taxpayer dollars and supporting the local economy.
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – San Diego County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer introduced a plan Tuesday intended to make San Diego the first southern border county in the United States with a program to provide legal representation for immigrants facing removal proceedings.
Lawson-Remer’s office claims the proposed initiative the Immigrant Rights Legal Defense Program – – is intended to help address the current backlog in immigration courts, while also saving taxpayer dollars and supporting the local economy.
As proposed, the program would use taxpayer dollars to fund attorneys to represent detained immigrants in San Diego County. It would start as a $5 million one-year pilot project, and eventually grow to be a permanent resource housed in the San Diego County Office of the Public Defender and work in partnership with regional immigrant defense agencies and nonprofits.
Effort expected to qualify 68,000 residents, Hucker says
April 26, 2021 | 10:12 am
April 26, 2021
Montgomery County officials are considering amending qualifications for the Working Families Income Supplement tax credit to include non-citizens.
The county’s current law says a resident must be eligible for both federal and state earned income tax credit to qualify. The provision in the code excludes specific taxpayers such as ITIN (Individual Tax Identification Number) holders who do not qualify under certain federal requirements.
ITIN holders are not eligible to receive Social Security numbers. They use an ITIN to pay federal taxes. They include immigrants who are not citizens, student visa-holders, Cuban and Haitian entrants and certain immediate family members of people with employment visas, according to the National Immigration Law Center.
House Votes to Restrict Future Travel Bans, Moving to Undo Trump’s Legacy
The No Ban Act would curb the president’s expansive power to control immigration and bar restrictions on the basis of religion. It faces steep obstacles in the Senate.
Representative Judy Chu, Democrat of California, sponsored the bill to bar the White House from instituting expansive travel bans like the one former President Donald J. Trump imposed.Credit.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
April 21, 2021, 7:37 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON Pamela Raghebi of Seattle blames President Donald J. Trump’s travel ban for keeping her separated from her husband, Afshin, a native of Iran, for three frustrating years.