Sample Email:

Dear Board of Supervisors,

I am a volunteer coordinator with two immigrant support organizations in Sonoma County.  I have been on the Steering Committee of NBRRN North Bay Rapid Response Network for 8 years and was a founding member of QAA Queer Asylum Accompaniment in 2019.  These organizations provide strong support for immigrant individuals and families in Sonoma County impacted by immigration enforcement.  

Secure Families Collaborative has been the prime source of funding for the legal needs of the same individuals and families that our organizations have been working with and supporting for these last few years.  Secure Families Collaborative just hosted 6 free legal clinics with lawyers (some of whom they fund) who they gathered to give free legal consultations to hundreds of immigrants twice in Petaluma and as well in Cloverdale, Sonoma, Sea Ranch and at SRJC.  

I have worked with Margaret Flores McCabe for the last 5 years and have attended Secure Families Collaborative partners meeting multiple times and have found her support of Sonoma County’s immigrant community to be cooperative, inclusive and absolutely vital.

At a time when our county may be attacked for supporting our immigrant population and when our immigrant friends, family and neighbors are suffering REAL attacks under the Trump Administration we should be working strongly together to disperse needed funds quickly to grow and strengthen the existent support organizations who have been doing this work in the last few years.  People should not be wasting any of our time or energy attacking one of the most effective funding sources at work for immigrants here in Sonoma County.  

Please continue to do what you can to protect the smooth process of financial support from our Secure Families Collaborative.