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Immigration and legal services: advocates ask Council to protect UMFI, expand funding for immigrant legal help
Summary
Advocates urged the Council to preserve and expand city-funded immigration legal services, protect the Unaccompanied Minors and Families Initiative (UMFI) in the face of a sudden federal contract termination, and to invest in immigrant legal defense, rapid response and state-level benefits programs.
Immigrant legal services organizations and coalitions urged the City Council to restore or expand funding for multiple legal assistance initiatives and to respond to a federal contract termination that cut funding for representation of unaccompanied children.
Unaccompanied minors funding crisis: The federal Unaccompanied Children Program (UCP) contract termination in March eliminated nearly $14 million in federal funding and left roughly 1,300 children…
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