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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - In the aftermath of migration raids happening crossed the U.S., a radical of elected officials and assemblage leaders are moving unneurotic to enactment Fresno's migrant community.
Fresno County Supervisor Luis Chavez discussed his imaginativeness for a enactment radical backmost aft gathering with metropolis leaders and section organizations successful November 2024.
He sat down with YourCentralValley.com Wednesday to sermon the maturation of the Immigration Affairs Working Group and however the committee is supporting Fresno County successful the midst of anti-ICE protests popping up astir the country.
"The panic is real, the fearfulness is real," Chavez said. "President Trump talked astir during the run apprehending convulsive criminals, which I think everybody supports. Nobody's against that. But erstwhile you're going after, you know, moving moms and azygous moms retired there, that are just trying to enactment nutrient connected the table. That I deliberation is not what was promised. That's not what radical voted for."
One illustration successful Southern California details a mom being detained and deported after she attended an migration proceeding for an update connected her case.
Chavez says it’s cases similar these causing anxiousness for immigrants up and down the Golden State, including Fresno.
He's been relying connected the associated committee established alongside Fresno City Council Member Miguel Arias to support his digit connected the pulse of concerns coming from the community.
"They're starting to spot a small spot much angst, of the uncertainty erstwhile you person families that don't cognize if they're going to get rounded up oregon if they're going to amusement up to the tribunal day and past they're going to get apprehended there," helium said.
Chavez says close present they're focused connected however to champion supply enactment for those surviving successful fear.
"I get regular reports of what's happening successful definite nutrient processing plants oregon farms oregon different industries, and that's been precise adjuvant for maine arsenic a policymaker due to the fact that that helps maine allocate resources," Chavez explained. "We are going to person a mates of meetings. We really person a mates of scheduled already to enactment with these work providers and that's what I'm going to gauge. Okay. 'What benignant of increases are you seeing? Are they intelligence wellness services? What astir children?' We're getting a batch of reports of children that are present frightened to spell to school. That's the astir bosom wrenching part."
Chavez says the conversations he's having present with the committee volition assistance find what fiscal resources are needed to amended service Fresno assemblage members.
