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Williams advocates for increased funding for rapid legal services
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Jumaane Williams calls for increased funding for rapid legal services, emphasizing their critical importance for non-citizen communities. He urges the mayor and city council to allocate additional funds to support these essential legal services.
- Williams identifies rapid legal services as a critical lifeline for non-citizen communities
- He calls for an additional $33 million in funding, approximately $11 million per organization
- Williams emphasizes the importance of flexible funding to ensure long-term legal care for individuals in need
Jumaane Williams
0:18:12
Besides housing, which I believe is a right, not an optional service, the most critical lifeline for our non citizens citizen communities are our rapid legal services, something that the city should have paid attention to a long time ago and we'd have had some folks who here seeking asylum legally have more ability to work.
0:18:30
I'm calling on the mayor and the council to answer the call of the rapid response legal collaborative for an additional $33,000,000, just over $11,000,000 per organization.
0:18:39
During times of heightened exclusion, federal federally sponsored racism and scapegoating, our lawyers are are frontline workers.
0:18:46
They deserve to have funding that is adequate and flexible enough to make sure that long term legal care for individuals in need can be funded.