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Orozco, Norma <br />From: Carlos Perea <carlos@harborinstituteoc.org> <br />Sent: Monday, May 17, 2021 3:47 PM <br />To: eComment <br />Cc: Sabrina Rivera; Lisa Okamoto; Allison Vo; Katie Traverso <br />Subject: [Agenda Item 24] Re: Make Santa Ana's Deportation Defense Fund a Permanent <br />Program for FY 2021-2022 <br />Attachments: Letter to SA City Council - Deportation Defense Fund.pdf, Santa Ana annual report <br />FINAL.pdf <br />Categories: Correspondence <br />Dear Mayor Vicente Sarmiento and Santa Ana City Council Members, <br />Attached is a letter on behalf of the Orange County Justice Fund (OCJF), Immigrant Defenders Law Center <br />(ImmDef), Vera Institute of Justice, Harbor Institute for Immigrant and Economic Justice, VietRISE and the 32 <br />organizations signed below. We urge you to expand and make sustainable the city's Deportation Defense <br />Fund by allocating funding every year at the level of $300,000 starting in this FY 2021-22 budget. <br />We have also included the Restoring Due Process in Santa Ana Report by Vera Institute which highlights the <br />successes and unmet needs of the program. <br />If you have any questions please contact Sabrina Rivera at srivera(a ociusticefund.orQ. <br />Thank you. <br />Letter signed by the following organizations: <br />Orange County Justice Fund <br />Immigrant Defenders Law Center <br />Vera Institute of Justice <br />VietRISE <br />Harbor Institute for Immigrant and Economic Justice <br />UCI Law Immigrant Rights Clinic <br />UFCW Local 324 <br />Public Law Center <br />