I to rise in support of a the 5 million dollars that is going to go the rapid response network
I want to thank the Jewish family services the ACL San Diego organizing project in my
church Our Lady of Guadalupe with father Pepe who's here not doing an introduction because
that would be somebody else's job to do for me today but I do I do want to thank all the
people in San Diego who responded to this crisis we've had a temporary shelter really
in my district since October in the reason we have a just understand these organizations
were told the night before people start being dumped in the streets that the federal government
with ending a program this is a program that has been in place for years and years and
it's it's called the safe release program where basically these asylum seekers who are
here legally they've been found to have a credible reason to claim asylum a they they
usually were were taken in they're given an ankle bracelet in the federal government
would see to it that they were sent to their destination where where their sponsor
or their family was most of these people do not stay in California most of these folks
have plane tickets are train tickets it can be paid for by by their family by sponsors
by places around the United States but you can imagine a family who has walked from Guatemala
here who's in shorts and a tee shirt and is left by by the federal government on the streets
of San Ysido on my district to find their way to Chicago in in subzero temperatures
that that's what basically with no explanation these folks don't even speak Spanish most
of the time they speak a dialect of indigenous Guatemalan languages and it's it's amazing
to me that something that the federal government has been able to do for so long was stopped
so abruptly and left so many people in a vulnerable position it makes them vulnerable to human
trafficking and it makes our shelters are homeless shelters vulnerable to having more
people there quite frankly. Because what are these people supposed to do they don't even
have a guide to where they're supposed to be getting so these organizations in San Diego
they they stepped up they've been filling that void but thank god we have a governor
who went down there to look too said we need to be part of the solution this is a solution
that all of us have a responsibility for quite frankly in San Diego county a lot of people
say well somebody else's responsibility but but the San Diego county board of supervisors
also passed a resolution found a place for new temporary shelter in the state has to
come up with some money to insure that these organizations can continue to run it that's
what this is about it is not a permanent shelter I know there's been a lot of criticism that
somehow we're not housing veterans and homeless folks this is a temporary shelter people are
there for 24 to 72 hours at the most it is not a situation by which people are
using it as transitional housing this is to get them from from being released on the streets
to their destination of choice for this 5 million dollars is gonna be well spent in the long run it's
going to save our state money it's going to save our local governments money it's going
to insure that people get where they belong in they can have that hearing for asylum it's
important to remember and to go back in your communities in state these folks for it for
whatever you feel about immigration these folks are here legally this is their right
to be here this is not some sort of. You know I I don't know what the the other side likes
to say but but they they are here legally they have a claim to be here legally and we
need a system in a humanitarian way and this is one step in doing that so I want to thank
all the organizations and the churches involved and in helping to get us to this point
I want to thank our budget chair for acting so quickly when we kind of hair on fire said
we needed this as soon as possible of course I want to thank our governor for proposes
well I respectfully ask for an I vote.
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