The Salem Citizen Budget Committee voted Jan. 14 in an 11-7 split to recommend that Salem City Council revive the city’s social services fund with $400,000 and use some of those funds to help families impacted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests.
Budget committee member Evan Manvel initially motioned to create a fund of $270,000 to help families impacted by arrests and deportations following Salem City Council’s emergency declaration on Dec. 1 over unconstitutional ICE sweeps.
“We need to be a city that protects and helps our community members impacted by ICE,” Manvel said. “We need to be a community that helps those least fortunate among us to meet their basic needs of food, housing and legal assistance in these dark times.”…