Alex Padilla: “Make your plan to vote early. Get your friends, get your neighbors, get your family members, get your coworkers to vote…”

For these reasons and our deep concern regarding the treatment and protection of unaccompanied children, we call for an independent, timely, transparent, and public investigation at both the state and federal level into this award.

Congress has, on a bipartisan basis, made clear that unaccompanied children should not be forced to represent themselves in immigration court…

Should this egregious trend continue, 11 projects in 10 states…that anticipate signing a CIG grant agreement this year could be subjected to senseless delay.

The new guidance might encourage staff to avoid helping residents vote.