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Residents urge Anaheim to expand Contigo fund and shield day laborers from ICE
Summary
Day-laborer volunteers and community members asked the City Council to expand the Contigo fund, create a legal-defense program for immigrants and instruct police to document and verify immigration enforcement actions after recent detentions near a Home Depot day-labor site.
Anaheim — Residents, volunteers and day laborers urged the Anaheim City Council on Aug. 26 to expand the city's Contigo fund, create a local immigrant legal-defense program and direct the police to document and verify immigration-enforcement encounters after a series of recent detentions near a Home Depot labor site. The requests came during the council's public-comment period at City Hall.
The appeal centered on repeated detentions at a known day-labor gathering place and the community's request that city resources be used to protect and support workers. "This will be for the counsel and Rob and Jim. Why can't we have the things they have in Santa Ana?" one speaker said, urging Anaheim to adopt measures modeled on other cities.
Why it matters: Speakers said the detentions have increased fear among day laborers who gather to find work and that existing outreach and…
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