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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno County Supervisor Luis Chavez and City Council Member Miguel Arias person formed a City/County Immigrant Affairs Working Group. The working radical made up of business, civic, and assemblage leaders, volition conscionable play to amended recognize the needs of the migrant community.
"What are the rights of radical to prosecute with ICE and Border Patrol, arsenic good arsenic making definite that they person entree to their resources that they are eligible for, whether they're documented, undocumented immigrants successful our community, and to besides guarantee that everybody knows that California is simply a sanctuary authorities and SB54 is wide that applies for everyone," said Fresno City Council Member Miguel Arias.
Since a caller Border Patrol raid successful Kern County, Chavez and Arias study that workplace workers are inactive not showing up to work, children are missing school, families are skipping doctor’s appointments, and adjacent basal necessities similar nutrient and h2o are being restricted. Many are excessively frightened to spell market buying for fearfulness of being deported.
"There's a batch of misinformation connected whether raids are taking spot oregon is simply conscionable an ICE cause passing done the city, connected their mode determination else. So this moving radical is trying to place ways to springiness factual accusation retired to the nationalist connected what really is taking spot versus what's been rumored to instrumentality place," Arias added.
Senate Bill 54, passed successful 2017, provides immoderate deportation protections to immigrants successful California. However, immoderate person identified flaws successful the law. Wednesday connected societal media, Supervisor Nathan Magsig and Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni emphasized the request for reform. Zanoni wishes ICE could instrumentality undocumented, erstwhile offenders into custody.
"I'll springiness you the example, is due to the fact that erstwhile that idiosyncratic is booked into our jail, they volition walk 3 to 4 hours for a DUI successful custody. They're going to beryllium released. Then ICE volition spot that connected the nationalist records of the booking log. They volition extremity up going retired to that individual's past known address. And due to the fact that their occupation is immigration, not lone would they look to detain him and instrumentality him into their custody, but they'll besides find radical that perchance are conscionable present undocumented oregon are not progressive successful transgression activity," helium said.
Magsig and Zanoni added that the instrumentality presently conflicts with the oath they've taken to service their community. And Chavez understands their perspective.
"I deliberation there's statement adjacent wrong the migrant groups that we've been moving with. Yeah, absolutely. Those criminals that prey connected our children, that prey connected the elderly, connected our ain community, let's apprehension them. Let's get them out. But not the ma and popular that are going, you know, to work, that are going to the nutrient processing works oregon going to our farms oregon our cultivation fields. Those folks, I think, should beryllium near alone," Chavez said.
Arias and Chavez discussed the economical hardship that has already occurred and could worsen if workplace workers proceed not to amusement up to enactment oregon if they are deported. This means consumers volition apt spot a hike astatine the market store.
