Credit: Office of Lane Santa Cruz Facebook Page

The City of Tucson’s We Are One | Somos Unos Resiliency Fund recently received a $1.25 million donation to provide financial relief for Tucson’s immigrant communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The donations, from the Open Society Foundations and an anonymous donor, will provide funds to immigrants living in the City of Tucson and the City of South Tucson. These are people who have been significantly impacted by COVID-19 but are often excluded from federal aid.

The Open Society Foundations is a worldwide philanthropic organization run by billionaire George Soros.

The $1.25 million will be disbursed through grants to those who were not eligible to receive federal CARES Act stimulus checks earlier this year, and who face additional barriers to financial assistance programs, according to a city press release.

“It is unconscionable that many of our fellow Tucsonans do not have access to federal aid despite risking their lives serving as essential workers during this pandemic,” said Mayor Regina Romero in the release. “No one should suffer hardship in the shadows and, unfortunately, that’s the painful reality many immigrants are enduring.”

Tucson council member Lane Santa Cruz said that early in the COVID-19 pandemic advocates from the Immigrant Empowerment Taskforce shared information about how immigrant families were being affected. In the release, Santa Cruz said they were grateful for the donations which will help the city address these economic injustices.

The Sunnyside Foundation has been designated as the administrator of the funds, and details on how to receive aid will be shared on Sept. 1 at www.sunnysidefoundation.org.

“Entire families in our community are being evicted from their homes, losing jobs, and having to decide between buying groceries or paying utility bills,” said Sunnyside Foundation Executive Director Kerri Lopez-Howell in the release. “We are honored to steward these resources and eager to work alongside grassroots community leaders, organizers, and advocates to ensure that those most impacted receive these dollars.”

This article appears in Aug 13-19, 2020.

9 replies on “Tucson Grant Fund Gets Over $1M for Immigrant Financial Relief”

  1. “Open Society Foundations and an anonymous donor”

    George Soros funds Open Society, BLM and Antifa. The day is coming when the DOJ applies RICO laws to this international terrorist group.

    Is our Mayor now in bed with him?

  4. gQ and j85, I’ve hearing this BS for 50 years. It’s never come true, it will never come true, it’s sad you so obviously have no clue what you’re talking about. Funding Antifa? There is no Antifa. All it is, is if you are against fascists, and we all used to be except for the traitors, then you should stand up against them. It’s called an idea. And Soros? If he funded 1/10th of what the right has claimed over the last 40 years he’d have gone bankrupt 38 years ago. Then, you probably don’t see all the republicans that get arrested on a weekly basis. 4 yesterday Kobach, Prince and Shilling, what a bunch of crooks. How many in congress in just the last year? Sad. BTW, It’s been months since we found out the Russians were paying bounties for dead US Servicemen, the WH knew over a year ago, where’s trump? Hasn’t said a effing word. Stick that somewhere.

  5. Thank you Jerry Nadler. Start arresting these criminals and just like the FBI lawyer that falsified info on the FISA warrants they will sing. Who is your manager? Who funds you? How do they transfer money?

    Sounds quite a bit like a drug cartel doesn’t it?

    Oh yeah drug cartels don’t exist.

    “The claim that George Soros funded the Ferguson protests and Black Lives Matter was checked by Snopes in 2015, and it received a mixed rating. Snopes said that Open Society Foundations has donated $33 million to organizations that have worked with Black Lives Matter or worked to raise awareness during the Ferguson-related protests. However, they had never given money to groups for the express purpose of organizing protests with the movement”-Politifact

    That sounds just like “it depends on what the definition of is is.”

    Ron Blitzer, with contributions from Louis Casiano shows how Soros programs helped get some of these crazy District Attorneys into office, like for example the St Louis circuit attorney who wants to press charges against the Missouri couple for protecting their own home while BLM marchers trespassed on their property and threatened to destroy their house.

    Turns out you are wrong.

  6. How about financial relief for low income Americans whose wages are lowered due to competition for jobs with immigrants? The low-wage businesses that profit from the system could be taxed to finance it. I.e., Fairfield homes, Marriott hotels, Tyson Foods, Disney, Inc., etc.

  7. Sorry bslap the government is not here to help it’s citizens. What were you thinking? The last Presidential Administration, along with the four before it, were busy sending our jobs to China.

    None Dare Call It Treason.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Stormer

    I just never thought that the communists would be American citizens let alone elected officials sworn to an oath.

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