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Salinas -- Hundreds of people turned out Sunday afternoon at a town hall meeting on immigration organized by Rep. Jimmy Panetta at Hartnell College.
There was standing room only in the Monterey Room at the college, which hosted the event.
Panetta, D-Carmel Valley, and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, spoke about President Donald Trump's executive order to ban immigrants from seven predominently Muslin countries, as well as his promise to deport undocumented immigrants. The immigration order was placed on hold last week by a federal judge.
SALINAS — News of expanding immigration raids, leading to more than 160 detentions in Los Angeles last week, has sent waves of fear through the state's rural fields and farmlands, where growers and immigrant laborers alike are bracing for possible crackdowns on the state's agricultural heartland.
Fears, anxiety and in many cases anger in the wake of President Trump's executive orders on immigration, drew a tremendous crowd of at least several hundred that packed the student center on Sunday afternoon at Hartnell College in Salinas for an immigration town hall.
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WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.) released the following statement regarding President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration.
SALINAS – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.) released the following statement regarding President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant executive orders.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.) announced he has been selected to serve on the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans and the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
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