Shawn Van Pelt, owner of Cool Hand Luke's Steakhouse in Santa Maria, added 150 outdoor seats to his restaurant to accommodate pandemic restrictions this past.
Juana Flores to Return to Goleta and will be reunited with her family
–This week, Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) announced that the Department of Homeland Security has granted Central Coast community member Juana Flores humanitarian parole. After being deported to Mexico two years ago, she will now be reunited with her family.
“After two long years apart, the Flores family will finally be reunited,” said Rep. Carbajal. “Juana’s deportation under the Trump Administration left a hole in our Central Coast community that I’m glad will now be filled. I thank the Biden administration for granting her humanitarian parole, which means she can return to her community and be present in the lives of her children and grandchildren. However, I will continue fighting to secure a permanent stay for Juana and reunite other families that were cruelly separated under the Trump administration. The families of our service members deserve our respect and admiration, not deportation,
–Spokespersons from regional U.S. Congressmen Salud Carbajal’s (D-Santa Barbara) and Jimmy Panetta’s (D-Monterey) offices say the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services notified them that plans to house migrant children at Camp Roberts are now on hold.
The plans for Camp Roberts are on hold because the number of children in HHS custody has dropped dramatically, the spokespersons said.
In a teleconference meeting with federal officials last month, Paso Robles Mayor Steve Martin was told as many as 5,000 unaccompanied migrant children could be processed at Camp Roberts. “I expressed concerns about the impacts on local traffic, medical services, educational services and housing,” Martin said at the time. “I was told that, if children were transported to Camp Roberts, they would not arrive all at one time, but in groups of a few hundred. I was also assured medical and educational services would be handled on-base and would not impact local agencies.”
–Last week, Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-San Francisco) reintroduced the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act. The legislation was introduced by Rep. Salud Carbajal and co-led by Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Thousand Oaks), Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI). Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced companion legislation in the senate.