The center, which has served new Vietnamese immigrants since 1976, closed its doors last month as it struggles to pay more than $1.7 million to settle charges that it falsified records and over-billed government agencies.
Tag: Immigration
Posted inCountywide, Health & Wellness, San Juan Capistrano, Top Stories
Voting Rights Act Suit Filed Against San Juan Capistrano
Lawyer filing the suit claims the city’s political culture is infected with anti-Latino racism to a degree rarely seen in the 21st century.
Posted inCountywide, Equality & Equity, Investigative, Top Stories
A Hard Silence to Break: LGBT Vietnamese Struggle for Understanding
With family lines of communication weakened by war trauma, language barriers, and cultural rifts, Vietnamese Americans have a difficult time talking with those closest to them about sexual and gender identity issues.
Posted inCountywide, Top Stories
Fountain Valley Man Pleads Guilty to Political Money Laundering for Janet Nguyen
Son Truong Nguyen was convicted and sentenced Friday afternoon for laundering $13,300 in campaign contributions for Republican State Sen. Janet Nguyen’s 2012 campaign for county supervisor.
Posted inSanta Ana, Top Stories
Santa Ana Backs Away From ICE Contract Expansion
After immigrant rights activists spoke out against a proposal to increase the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees at the city jail, the Santa Ana City Council scrapped the idea.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide, Santa Ana
Cortez: Will Santa Ana’s Latino City Council Side With Human Rights Or With ICE and Trump?
Hairo Cortes, of Orange County Immigrant Youth United, challenges Santa Ana’s city council to resist a proposal on Tuesday night to increase the maximum number of LGBTQ and other detainees the city can imprison for ICE at its jail.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide, Santa Ana
Fialho: Stop State-Sanctioned Sexual Assaults in Santa Ana
Santa Ana jail officials need to revise their policies on strip searches of women in detainment, argues attorney Christina Fialho, who works with Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC).
Posted inCountywide, Government, Health & Wellness, Top Stories
OC Among Few Counties Still Denying Medical Care to Undocumented
More than 80 percent of California counties now provide at least some level of non-emergency medical care to poor undocumented immigrants. But Orange County is not one of them.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
Scott & Spady: OC Gang Injunctions are OverHyped
James Spady and Alex Scott write that gang injunctions are overhyped in terms of results and should be replaced with crime prevention programs instead of being expanded by District Attorney Tony Rackauckas in places like Santa Ana, Placentia, and elsewhere in the county.
Posted inCountywide, Outdoors, Santa Ana, Top Stories
Funding Shortfall Threatens Santa Ana Community Park
A small but beloved private park serving one of Santa Ana’s park-poor neighborhoods may have to reduce access unless the community organization that operates it can raise more money.
