Free services offered at immigration rights workshop in Visalia

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Hundreds were successful attendance astatine the Immigration Workshop astatine the College of the Sequoias successful Visalia Thursday nighttime with the absorption connected migration rights and protections.

"We're seeing students, we're seeing farmworkers, we're seeing professionals, we're seeing folks from each walks of life," said Dr. Randy Villegas, a governmental subject prof astatine the school.

The escaped bilingual lawsuit offering DACA renewals, a 45-minute presumption connected the value of migration rights and consultations.

Immigration attorneys reminding clients with transgression convictions that its not a dormant end, but alternatively a detour connected their pathway toward citizenship.

"It's important to recognize that not each convictions are equal," said Sully Bryan, and migration lawyer with Wilner and O'Reilly Law.

Protections are disposable for those with a transgression past including post-conviction relief.

"What this is is asking the tribunal strategy to re-open their lawsuit and instrumentality distant that blameworthy plea if, if possible," said Bryan.

In caller days, video crossed societal media depicted U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents successful agrarian parts of Kern County and Fresno County, targeting undocumented migrant communities.

Action News reached retired to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, who sent the pursuing statement:

"The U.S. Border Patrol conducts targeted enforcement arrests of individuals progressive successful smuggling passim our areas of cognition arsenic portion of our efforts to dismantle transnational transgression organizations."

The raids reigniting puerility fears for Dr. Villegas.

"For the immense bulk of my life, my parents were undocumented and truthful that was a precise existent fearfulness increasing up that my parents could beryllium ripped a portion from maine astatine immoderate moment," said Dr. Villegas.

His parents are present ineligible imperishable residents.

"These raids, these violations of laws are going to spark a civilian rights question the likes of which the incoming president has ne'er seen before," said Dr. Jesus Martinez, the enforcement manager of CVIIC.

The imaginable interaction goes beyond the undocumented population, besides applying to mixed presumption families.

"These are our farmworkers, these are our students," said Dr. Villegas.

"These are our household members and cipher should person to unrecorded successful fearfulness going to the market store, oregon going to enactment oregon going to school."

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