Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced Thursday that the city will donate taxpayer funds to more than a dozen nonprofit organizations that serve undocumented immigrants, according to the city. press release.
“Mayor Michelle Wu and the Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement (MOIA) today announced that the City is partnering with 13 non-profit organizations to provide immigration-related legal services and increase the capacity of immigrant service organizations to support the legal needs of immigrants. announced a $650,000 grant to workers.”
The report says each organization will receive between $10,000 and $100,000 to provide undocumented immigrants with programs such as “rights training, documentation assistance, and legal counseling and representation in immigration and labor violation cases.” said.
The 13 organizations that received grants include the Brazilian Workers Center, Immigrant Organizations/Center for Equity Now and Future, Centro Presente, Chinese Progress Association, Everett Haitian Community Center, and Gilbert Albert They include Community Center, Justice at Work, Civil Rights Lawyers, and Mabel. Immigrant Justice Center, Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, Ryan Immigration Center, Immigrant Justice Student Clinic, and Vietnamese American Citizens Association, Inc.
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The Immigrant Worker Rights Grant Program, created by the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Advancement, will fund the grants through the city’s 2024 operating budget.
“Boston is a city of immigrants, and we all benefit from the contributions of our neighboring immigrant communities,” Wu said.
“It is nearly impossible to operate our immigration system alone, so thank you to MOIA and these organizations for helping immigrant residents better access legal services and much-needed assistance. I am grateful,” she added.
Monique Thu Nguyen, executive director of the Mayor’s Office of Immigration Advancement, said expanding the capacity to provide legal services will provide “resources to help immigrants understand their rights and navigate the complex legal system.” “This will help ensure that the
of Daily Caller News Foundation Several organizations selected to receive funds reported being vocally anti-immigrant and anti-customs enforcement. The Massachusetts Immigration and Refugee Advocacy Coalition supports “ending the ICE detention agreement,” the news organization said.
ICE makes detention requests for illegal aliens arrested by local and state authorities for crimes unrelated to their illegal immigration status. The request asks law enforcement to detain the suspect for up to 48 hours from the date of release so that ICE agents can apprehend the suspect and transfer him to federal custody to face immigration proceedings.
Last year, the MIRA Coalition posted: X“Our immigration system needlessly imprisons hundreds of thousands of immigrants each year, separating them from their loved ones and subjecting them to inhumane conditions of confinement.”
The group encouraged Massachusetts residents to vote to prohibit the state government from contracting with ICE.
The Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice has also made a number of comments, including calling federal immigration authorities “.”racist. ”
In October, the group wrote: X“Dissolve ICE. Destroy the border.”
“Every time someone transfers, [sic] Instead of Release is just one example of ICE’s brutality. Let us free them all and make our communities healthy again,” the group said. I have written In another post.
“When we say that ICE is an agency designed to instill fear and cause suffering, this is exactly what we mean. They can’t even figure out how not to deport their citizens. You expect them to do something else, right? Yes and no!” Group said.
According to a post, Lian Immigration Center has previously participated in protests against ICE. X account.
Paul Craney of the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance told Blaze News: “The responsibility for the current immigration crisis in Massachusetts lies solely with the executive and legislative leadership on Beacon Hill. “They maxed out our shelter system, and then they maxed out the hotels that we were renting for them.” They are now trying to max out the overflow site and compromise our location. national defense facilities. Governor Healey has proven time and time again that he is willing to do anything but address the root causes of the problem. Until Beacon Hill addresses the factors that attract people from all over the world, this problem will continue to worsen. ”
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