Harris County commissioners voted 4-1 Thursday to approve more than $1 million in funding to several organizations for immigration assistance.
The money will go toward groups supporting the Immigrant Legal Services Fund program, or ILSF, which was created by commissioners in November 2020 to provide deportation defense services, according to public agenda documents.
Judge Lina Hidalgo was behind the original push for the program, and said in 2020 that it was designed to provide representation for families who could not afford it.
Of course, you always have a menagerie of brown skin people haters who have to give their two cents.
“I’m here today because our court is considering sending $1.3 million of your hard-earned money to radical activist groups to help illegal immigrants fight deportation,” Dutt said. “Our deputies are stretched thin, and families are being crushed by everyday living expenses. This is what is wrong with Harris County. Under Democrat leadership, they put illegal immigrants first and taxpayers last.”
Have to give the MAGA haters credit, they are persistent in their hate for anything that is not white, oops, Dutt is not white. They are all Trump wanna be haters, but people like Dutt need to be careful because they will come after them in due time. The problem with people like her is that they were not here to see and hear what Americans thought about people like her; the term they used was orientals, which was the kind word. While she does not indicate where her parents were from, it would not surprise me if she were of Vietnamese descent. When they first arrived, they were given opportunities that most other immigrants were not afforded.
130,000 refugees from South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia were allowed to enter the United States under a special status, and the act allotted special relocation aid and financial assistance.
But in the United States, Asian Americans have long been considered as a threat to a nation that promoted a whites-only immigration policy. They were called a “yellow peril”: unclean and unfit for citizenship in America.
In the late 19th century, white nativists spread xenophobic propaganda about Chinese uncleanliness in San Francisco. This fueled the passage of the infamous Chinese Exclusion Act, the first law in the United States that barred immigration solely based on race. Initially, the act placed a 10-year moratorium on all Chinese migration.
In the early 20th century, American officials in the Philippines, then a formal colony of the U.S., denigrated Filipinos for their supposedly unclean and uncivilized bodies. Colonial officers and doctors identified two enemies: Filipino insurgents against American rule, and “tropical diseases” festering in native bodies. By pointing to Filipinos’ political and medical unruliness, these officials justified continued U.S. colonial rule in the islands.
