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LA County announces project to connect immigrants with services, resources

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Citing hesitancy among some immigrant families to seek out public services due to fear of deportation or arrest, Los Angeles County announced a partnership Monday with an immigrant-rights organization to train “community navigators” to connect such families with available resources.

“Years of surviving and fighting immigrant-bashing, as well as multiple deportations, have fostered understandable fear among our immigrant neighbors, with the result that one in four are reluctant to apply for services to which they are entitled,” county Supervisor Sheila Kuehl said.

The partnership between the county Office of Immigrant Affairs and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights will train and deploy a group of community navigators, or outreach workers, with the goal of educating immigrant families about public resources available to them.

“We are so pleased to partner with the Los Angeles County Department of Consumer and Business Affairs office in order to better assist immigrant families access the services and programs available to them,” CHIRLA Executive Director Angelica Salas said. “At a time when so many people feel forgotten and alone, our navigators will bring hope and guidance thanks to this well- thought and proactive initiative.”

Blue Shield of California Foundation helped fund the Community Navigators program. Information on the program is available at immigrants.lacounty.gov.

“Available programs are there to provide help, but only if people feel safe and secure enough to access them. This initiative should help immigrants bridge that gap and get the boost they need,” said Supervisor Janice Hahn.

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9 comments for "LA County announces project to connect immigrants with services, resources"

  1. This is total b******* just so they can get votes on the Democrat side he can’t even help the people that are Americans that live in this country these politicians are in disgrace there is bad is Biden

    • I am happy you are distressed by that article.

      You must be a miserable wretch and nothing works for ya.

  2. I think they’re talking about illegal immigrants but are to politically correct to use the proper wording.

    Btw, Biden is bound to fail if he thinks he can follow Trump’s Middle East decisions. Biden has no balls.

    • Uh FatWhiteBob

      Go around to the front. That’s where they are.

      Trump’s are in back because he’s a wimpy loser and that’s where they keep ’em.

    • Actually, after 20 years Biden turns out to be the one with balls.

      There was never a way to leave Afghanistan without the government there collapsing, and there was never going to be. So ever since GWBush put that train on the track some president eventually was going to be held accountable for the trainwreck. Republican presidents are never going to do anything they have to take accountability for, so it was a given that a Democrat would have to pull that plug eventually.

      By doing it now Biden takes the hear early enough in his term that no one will care except the Trumpists by the time he is campaigning again. At the same time it gives Democrat candidates for congress a way to distance themselves from “being just a rubber stamp for the white house” in districts where they need to do that.

      So, Biden did what had to be done, in the most pragmatic way that he could do it. That isn’t “following Trump’s Middle East decisions,” especially since of all the gutless Republicans that would NEVER bite that kind of bullet Trump is the most gutless ever. This was just standard Democrat cleaning up a mess of Republican making.