Electrify America Details Next $200 Million EV Investment Plan
Long Beach, California will benefit from EA s next Green City effort. Electrify America
Next 30-month investment round by Electrify America will include Green City projects for Long Beach-Wilmington in California.
The station builder will focus on EV infrastructure for trucks and buses in the Los Angeles area.
The next 30-month investment plan will include EV infrastructure in several new metro areas, currently underserved by EV stations.
Electrify America plans to invest $200 million in California s zero-emission infrastructure and education over the next 30 months, part of its third investment phase into such efforts in the state. The effort is a part of a larger, $800-million investment in the state over the course of 10 years, which began in 2016.
Faith leaders concerned about Southern California temporary shelters for migrant children
One of these influx centers, the Fairplex, was also previously used as a temporary detention camp for Japanese Americans during WWII, faith leaders noted in a recent statement.
Migrant children en route to the United States sleep on a mattress on the floor of the AMAR migrant shelter in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on July 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
April 30, 2021
LOS ANGELES (RNS) Faith leaders say they are concerned about new temporary shelters that have been set up at Southern California event centers to house unaccompanied migrant children.
As of Tuesday (April 26), more than 300 children were being housed in an emergency shelter at the Long Beach Convention Center in Los Angeles County. This site is expected to eventually accommodate up to 1,000 kids, according to the Long Beach Post News.
Sen. Padilla on Reparations: “We Can Walk and Chew Gum”
By Manny Otiko California Black Media
Published April 29, 2021
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla talks during a news conference Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s is considering whom to appoint to serve out the rest of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ Senate term through 2022. Under consideration for the job include Rep. Karen Bass, Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland, Secretary of State Alex Padilla, and Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
California’s newest and first Latino Democratic Senator, Alex Padilla, says he supports reparations for Black American descendants of enslaved African people. He made the statement during an online news briefing with members of California’s ethnic press organized by Ethnic Media Services.
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Last Thursday,
migrant children began arriving at the Long Beach Convention Center for temporary housing, where they will wait to be reunited with family members or placed with sponsors.
The children, who are undocumented, were previously being held at the U.S.-Mexico border. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will operate the center in Long Beach, and the federal government will foot the bill.
Plans to turn the building into shelter were
put in place in early April after a unanimous vote by the Long Beach City Council, in response to a request by the federal government for assistance with the large influx of unaccompanied minors at the border.
Long Beach is ready to house immigrant children. But are they in over their heads? Cindy Carcamo
When the White House called Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia last week to ask if his city would help house unaccompanied immigrant children recently arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border, he didn’t hesitate.
It was personal for Garcia, who emigrated with his family from Peru to the U.S. at 5 years old. The 43-year-old up-and-coming progressive politician empathized with the immigrant children and wanted to help the Biden administration avert a humanitarian crisis.
“Absolutely,” the mayor replied.
Garcia, who chairs Long Beach City Council meetings, supported the move to lease the Convention Center to the federal government and convert it into an emergency shelter for up to 1,000 immigrant children. But leasing the city-owned center requires City Council approval.