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Board of Supervisors
Of
Contra Costa 'County, State of California
In the Matter Reconanending ]
Opposition to Proposition 187 ] Resolution No. 94/479
WHEREAS, Proposition 187 will cost cities and counties money and increase
burdensome bureaucratic procedures while creating an additional unreimbursed
state mandate on local governments; educators, health care workers, social
workers, and local law enforcement officials will be mandated to report to the
Federal Immigration and Naturalization Service suspected undocumented
individuals, further adding to administrative duties without compensation to
county government; and
WHEREAS, Proposition 187 weakens our criminal justice system by making it harder
to fight crime. Victims and witnesses of crimes will not report dangerous
criminals to police because they will fear deportation. Many law enforcement
officials oppose Proposition 187; and
WHEREAS, Proposition 187 endangers all Californians by threatening public
health. Children will not be immunized against communicable diseases and people
in need of health care will not receive treatment. The costs of providing
emergency treatment will be far greater than any perceived savings; and
WHEREAS, Proposition 187 discriminates by burdening citizens and legal
immigrants who appear or sound "foreign" to prove their legal status and by
forcing students, educators, health and human service providers to report people
"suspected" of being undocumented. Individuals will be denied services unless
they can provide documentation stipulated by the initiative. Students would be
expelled, patients refused treatment, and social service clients turned away; and
WHEREAS, Proposition 187 will not stop illegal immigration to California from
the many nations from which unauthorized immigrants originate and federal funding
for regional economic development, infrastructure and human services would be
jeopardized; and
WHEREAS, Proposition 187 violates both the Constitution of the United States and
the Constitution of the State of California,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, we, the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa
County, California, oppose Proposition 187 and join with Taxpayers Versus 187 in
our opposition; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County
denounces the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment and calls on community leaders and
elected officials to publicly reject the scapegoating of immigrants as a way of
avoiding attention to the State's serious economic and social problems.
INTRO�UC Y.
e" visor
SupTom Powers,
Chairman and First District Supervisor
Passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors on October 4, 1994.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution
entered into the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date aforesaid.
Witness my hand and the seal of the
Board of Supervisors affixed this 4th
day of October, 1994.
Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors and County Administrator.
BY:
Deputy Clerk