The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Association of Santa Clara Valley and Co-Sponsor San Jose Council Member Kansen Chu are inviting invite the public to a community meeting at 6pm tonight at San Jose City Hall (200 E. Santa Clara St.) in the Council Chambers.
The meeting will will focus on child welfare, and presenters will include Santa Clara County’s Ombudsman, Brohne Lawhorne, and Lori Medina of the Department of Family and Children’s Services. The meeting is expected to last two hours and will allow members of the community to ask questions and voice their concerns about issues regarding child welfare and the Department of Family and Children’s Services.
For more information, contact Kathleen Flynn at [email protected], or call 408.861.5323.
We hope some of you SJI readers will join us. This is a topic of great importance to the community, as some immigrants don’t know the laws that govern what constitutes child abuse in the US.
If child welfare is the topic, will there be someone there to translate the proceedings into English for any taxpayers that show up?
Egads, “Press 12 for English.”
“If child welfare is the topic, will there be someone there to translate the proceedings into English for any taxpayers that show up?”
English, Spanish, and Vietnamese!
First, park an Immigration & Customs Enforcement (I.C.E) bus out in front of City Hall. Then take note what type of “immigrants” (legal or illegal)and how many of them will actually show up for the meeting.
I feel for the children. If children need protection, there are plenty of laws already on the books.If you see or have cause to reasonably believe a child is being abused, call 9-1-1 immediately.
If immigrant parents are leagally in the United States and they abuse their children, arrest the parents, jail them without bond and put them on trial.
If the parents are foreign nationals who are in the United States illegally; follow the same protocal as above and then deport the whole family.
The City of San Jose, the County of Santa Clara, the State of California and the United States of America are “broke”.
Our society cannot continue to fund the governmental agencies and their employees to do “immigrant” related work. Nor can society coninue to fund the well being of immigrants.
It is well past time to cease the governmental mollycoddling of those that abuse children and to close the door on all of them. Be it the door to a jail cell or to the door behind them as they are rightfully “booted out” of the United States.
David S. Wall