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Vermont immigration legal services facing funding cliff as federal grants expire, provider tells Judiciary committee
Summary
The state's only newly established immigration legal provider said federal seed funding is ending and warned that a loss of support would reduce services for thousands of foreign-born Vermonters; the witness requested state and foundation support to sustain staffing.
A leader of a Vermont immigration legal-services program told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Feb. 7 that federal funding supporting newly created immigration representation is expiring and that replacement resources are needed to sustain services for thousands of foreign-born residents.
"There are 30,000 Vermonters right now who are afraid of losing their ability to work," Jill Martin Diaz, executive director of the Vermont Asylum Assistance Project, said in testimony. She described a program that has grown rapidly in the last year and that is currently about 50% federally funded, including through grants…
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