The Indianapolis City-County Council approved a fiscal ordinance Monday that will allocate $150,000 to pilot an immigrant defense fund. The money will help immigrants in Indianapolis seeking asylum, pursuing citizenship, or those at risk of deportation with legal information, consultations and representation. Local organizations that are already doing this work are maxed out with their caseload, said Jordan Rodriguez, who works in the city s human resources department and is the former director of the city s Office of International and Latino Affairs. So this would basically provide funds to be able to increase perhaps, you know, personnel for those organizations, and also just help with various (immigration process) fees that immigrants have to pay as well.
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11 May 2021
The Indiana General Assembly overrode Gov. Eric Holcomb’s (R) veto of a bill Monday that made it more difficult for municipalities to impose strict coronavirus orders.
WSBT’s Max Lewis reported the Indiana Senate voted 36-10 and the state House voted 59-30 to override Holcomb’s veto of Senate Bill 5, which required a vote by a local governing body to impose tougher virus-related restrictions than the state.
#BREAKING: Indiana House votes 59-30 to override Gov. Holcomb s veto of SB 5. The bill goes into effect immediately so all local mandates are now null and void
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