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According to Immigrant Defense Advocates, a Sacramento-based immigrant policy group, the CSU program’s funding would be reduced from about $7 million annually to about $1.8 million. Mitchell said that in this election year, with the future of DACA and other immigration policies uncertain, the proposed funding cut “is coming at a terrible time.”Immigrant policy advocates say other cuts to immigrant legal services would do away with some programs altogether, like a pilot program that provides child advocacy to unaccompanied minors, funded at close to $18 million.
After San Gabriel's city council rejected the proposal as"too narrow", one city councilmember argued the entire DEI commission, created in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder, had"run its course."Los Angeles City Council President Paul Krekorian has yet to schedule a meeting to discuss ethics reforms — more than a year-and-a-half after they were first proposed.
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