Report to Mayor and City Council
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Consent
SUBJECT:
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CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION NO. 2017-101 OF THE CITY OF CARSON TO SUPPORT SENATE BILL 349 (S.349) THE ACCESS TO COUNSEL ACT OF 2017 (CITY COUNCIL)
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I. SUMMARY
The City Council is being requested to consider Resolution No. 17-035 in support of legislation S.349: the Access to Counsel Act of 2017, that was introduced by United States Senator Kamala Harris, a member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs. This bill will ensure that all individuals held or detained at border, ports of entry, detention facilities overseen by the United States and, or at immigration proceedings, while attempting to enter the United States be provided guaranteed access to legal counsel.
II. RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
TAKE the following actions:
1. WAIVE further reading and ADOPT Resolution No. 17-035 "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARSON, CALIFORNIA, SUPPORTING S.349: THE ACCESS TO COUNSEL ACT OF 2017".
2. INSTRUCT staff to transmit a copy of the executed resolution to the Office of United States Senator Kamala Harris
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III. ALTERNATIVES
DO NOT support Resolution No. 17-035
IV. BACKGROUND
In the wake of the President Donald Trump Administration's Muslim Ban, reports flooded in of innocent traveling individuals and families, refugees, Green Card holders even U.S. Citizens, many of whom were elderly or children that were being illegally arrested, detained for long periods of time, intimidated as they arrived at our airports and deprived of legal counsel and contact with their families. Many were pressured to sign forms giving up their legal permanent resident status and forced onto planes out of the country.
Refugees, immigrants, students, and tourists all deserve to be able to access their lawyer in legal proceedings that could change the course of their lives. Whether they enter the country at an airport or come across the borde...
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