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Davis forum spotlights immigrant safety needs; advocates press for sanctuary ordinance, legal aid and housing support
Summary
Local nonprofits, legal clinics and residents urged the Davis Human Relations Commission to push a sanctuary ordinance, expand legal defense and coordinate housing and rapid-response services after community presenters described fear, housing precarity and gaps in follow-up legal help.
Davis Human Relations Commission members heard more than two hours of testimony Wednesday night at an Immigrant Safety and Solidarity Forum, where community advocates and service providers urged the city to adopt stronger protections and fund legal, housing and mental-health supports for immigrant residents.
Speakers including Danila Tevez, a formerly undocumented resident, and Amanda Perez, co‑director of the UC Davis immigration law clinic and California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, described fear and practical harms facing mixed‑status families. "Students are afraid to go to school, parents are afraid to leave their homes to go to work," Perez said, urging coordinated rapid‑response plans and more removal‑defense resources. Danila Tevez urged practical tenant protections such as publishing which landlords accept ITINs or alternative IDs, saying that would “put a lot of families at ease.”
Why it matters: presenters from local organizations — the Yolo County Library, NorCal Resist,…
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