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Orozco, Norma <br />From: <br />Sent: <br />To: <br />Subject: <br />Follow Up Flag: <br />Flag Status: <br />IWJ <br />Yasmin Vazquez <br />Executive Assistant <br />Vazquez, Yasmin <br />Tuesday, May 16, 2017 4:47 PM <br />!City Clerk <br />FW: Support for 65A Item on Tonight's City Council Meeting Agenda <br />Follow up <br />Flagged <br />City of Santa Ana I City Manager's Office <br />20 Civic Center Plaza I Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />714-647-5200 1 yvazauez@santa-ana.org <br />From. Annie Lai [ <br />Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 4:44 PM <br />To: City Council <br />Subject: Support for 65A Item on Tonight's City Council Meeting Agenda <br />To the Clerk of the City of Santa Ana, <br />I'm writing to provide public comment on the 65A Item on tonight's City Council open meeting agenda. Because of the <br />short notice, I regret that I am not able to attend tonight's City Council meeting in person. <br />I am an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Co -Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at the UC Irvine School of Law. <br />I'd like to express my full support to the City Council for moving forward with providing public funding for an <br />immigration legal defense fund (option d) and applying for a Vera Institute Support Grant (option e). There is an urgent <br />need for legal representation of Orange County residents who are arrested and detained by federal authorities, one that <br />has only grown more acute with Orange County's vote last week to expand the OCSD's contract with ICE. While the <br />government is represented by a trained attorney at every hearing, immigrants in Orange County who cannot afford an <br />attorney must regularly navigate removal proceedings without any legal assistance at all. Even a modest investment by <br />the City of Santa Ana in an immigration legal defense fund at this time could open up the possibility of participation in <br />Vera Institute's SAFE Cities Network. Such action would be a monumental step forward in Santa Ana's fight for due <br />process for all. <br />Thank you very much for your consideration, <br />Annie Lai <br />Annie Lai I Assistant Clinical Professor I UC Irvine School of Law <br />401 E. Peltason, Suite 3500 <br />Irvine, CA 92697-8000 <br />T: (949) 824-9894 1 F: (949) 824-8926 E: alai(a�law.uci.edu <br />