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Community groups urge Santa Paula to fund legal defense and act quickly on immigration ad hoc committee
Summary
Multiple community speakers urged the council to convert the recently created ad hoc immigration committee into concrete action, requesting a legal defense fund and $200,000 in city support, citing recent ICE activity near Best Barbecue and urgent needs for translation and outreach.
Community groups and residents used the public comment period to press the city for concrete steps to protect immigrant families and to operationalize the ad hoc immigration committee.
Nicole Sanders (VC Defensa), Amalia Ochoa and Nydia (policy advocate with COS) thanked the council for creating the ad hoc…
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