"The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday afternoon to approve a $3.57 million emergency allocation to dramatically scale up legal services, community outreach and rapid response networks for the county's immigrant and refugee residents. Sourced primarily from the Measure W Essential Services Fund, the allocation includes $2.5 million for immigrant and refugee support and an additional $1 million for a flexible contingency pool. The funds will extend and increase contracts for three frontline community coalitions."
""This is about real-time response and building an infrastructure that will continue to educate and empower our communities to withstand this escalation of threats and attacks," Márquez said. Under the new federal budget, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is set to receive an additional $75 billion over four years, representing a more than 300% increase in enforcement and detention capacity."
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a $3.57 million emergency allocation to scale up legal services, community outreach and rapid-response networks for immigrant and refugee residents. The allocation draws primarily from the Measure W Essential Services Fund and designates $2.5 million for immigrant and refugee support and $1 million for a flexible contingency pool. Funds will extend and increase contracts for three frontline community coalitions and build on an initial $3.5 million emergency package approved March 11 that established rapid response services. County staff described exponentially more attacks and unprecedented levels of federal immigration enforcement. Residents expressed heightened concerns after a recent Supreme Court ruling allowing stops based on perceived ethnicity and following a courthouse detention incident.
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