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Bay Area Reporter :: Trio of out San Francisco immigrants panel applicants get recommended for appointment


A trio of out applicants seeking appointment to San Francisco s Immigrant Rights Commission won support Monday from the Board of Supervisor s Rules Committee. The full board at its March 9 meeting will take up their appointments as well as the four straight applicants who also secured a recommendation from the supervisor panel.
Aiming to continue serving is Commissioner Jessy Ruiz Navarro, who is originally from Mexico. She first joined the oversight body in 2019 as its first transgender member and its first commissioner whose primary language isn t English.
Navarro, who works for the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center, does not live in San Francisco so requires a residency waiver in order to continue to be an immigrant rights commissioner. The rules committee voted to support her remaining in her Seat 1 on the advisory panel. ....

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