Attendees were able to give public comment at the October 3, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting. Photo by Brenda Verano.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors adopted the county’s final $46.7 billion budget. Despite the billion-dollar budget the Immigrants are LA (IRLA) coalition believes the immigrant community and its needs are not rightfully represented in this budget. IRLA wants to ensure that the approximately 3.5 million immigrants living in LA, the majority of them being Latinos, are a visible, integral and permanent part of the county’s budget process. 

IRLA held a press conference the same day as the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting. Photo by Brenda Verano.

On October 3, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors held a hearing to present their 2023-2024 budget. Photo by Brenda Verano.

Rudy Espinoza, director of Inclusive Action for the City. Photo by Brenda Verano.

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The massive $1.7 trillion – trillion with a T – bill of which the farmworkers and DREAMers legislation would have been a part of includes a funding boost for the U.S. Border Patrol, which is in line to hire several hundred new agents for what the agency says is an expected influx at the U.S.-Mexico border if Title 42 ends.