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Immigrant advocates press SFUSD for DACA outreach; superintendent pledges coordination
Summary
Immigrant-rights lawyers and DACA recipients asked the school board to allow community organizations into high schools, post multilingual DACA materials and defend sanctuary protections; Superintendent Carranza pledged to connect speakers with district outreach staff and said the district is "100% a sanctuary district."
San Francisco — Several community organizations and students urged the San Francisco Unified School District board on Tuesday to increase outreach about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and to allow trained community legal partners into high school sites.
"We are a community-based organization... and we provide direct legal services to individuals who are immigrant populations," said Amanda Alvarado Ford, an immigration attorney at La Raza Centro Legal, asking the board to permit presentations to students so they can apply when eligible and to prevent…
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