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Community leaders urge legislature to condemn federal rhetoric, fund prevention and protect immigrants, students and LGBTQ Californians
Summary
Leaders of civil-rights, immigrant-rights, faith-based, AAPI and LGBTQ organizations told a California Assembly select committee that hate and targeted enforcement have intensified and urged the Legislature to fund security grants, legal help, language access and protections for courts, schools and health care.
Panelists representing multiple protected communities told the Assembly select committee about increased threats, rising hate incidents and practical needs they say the state should address.
Rick Callender, president of the California–Hawaii State Conference of the NAACP, told the committee that structural racism and targeted policing continue to harm Black Californians and urged investments in police oversight, restorative-justice programs in schools, health-care access and environmental justice measures in frontline communities.
Representatives from the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) described intensified xenophobic federal rhetoric and aggressive…
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