Fiscal Note
This resolution would appropriate $30,000 from the Contingent Reserve to the Community Development Division to support a contract with Centro Hispano to coordinate free community immigration clinics to assist immigrants applying for the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The 2015 Adopted Operating Budget includes a $1.2 million Contingent Reserve. If approved, the uncommitted balance of the 2015 reserve is reduced to $1,163,000.
The budget will be amended as follows:
($30,000) 110020-56620 Reduce Contingent Reserve
$30,000 62443-54820 Increase CDD Community Agency Contracts Expense
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Coordinating free community legal clinics to assist applicants for Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) based on President Obama's November 20, 2014, Executive Actions and amending the 2015 Adopted Operating Budget to appropriate funds from the Contingent Reserve to the Community Development Division for a contract for services.
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WHEREAS, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, in 2013, there were 11.7 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States; and
WHEREAS, there are over five million children under the age of 18 who have one or more undocumented parents living in the United States and 80% of these are U.S. citizens and the remaining are legal permanent residents or young people brought to this nation as children; and
WHEREAS, we recognize and uphold the right to be raised with the love and support of a unified family as a fundamental human right, without the constant fear that that family will be taken from you, without which right these five million young people are denied the human rights, dignity and equal protection under the law afforded their peers; and
WHEREAS, on November 20, 2014, President Obama took executive action to create a new program of deferrals from deportation for approximately 4 mill...
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