Evanston activists discuss paths for immigrant support

Despite the challenge of navigating the immigration system under the Trump administration, some speakers at a Thursday night panel in Evanston said they are optimistic that the situation for some immigrants may improve in the future. The virtual session on immigration was hosted by the League of Women Voters of Evanston. Fred Tsao, the senior policy counsel at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, said Illinois has been funding immigrant services since the late 1990s, including for the Immigrant Family Resource Program (which provides interpretation services, and education regarding public benefits and other human services), and the New Americans Initiative (which provides wraparound services regarding citizenship and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients).

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