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PANA Strongly Opposes Board of Supervisors' Move to Join Trump Administration's Challenge to California's Sanctuary Laws
The Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans, PANA, is horrified that the San Diego County Board of Supervisors is considering joining the Trump administration's lawsuit against California's sanctuary laws. The chair of the Board of Supervisors, Kristin Gaspar, announced yesterday that the Board will consider
PANA Statement on California’s Sustainable and Affordable (CASA) Housing Act
Optimism for a Statewide Initiative to Address Insufficient Housing for Low Income People: The Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA) issues the following statement, attributable to PANA’s executive director, Ramla Sahid, in response to today’s announcement by Assemblymember Todd Gloria, Mayor Kevin Faulconer, and City Councilmembers
Voice of SD: Revisiting the Biggest Conversations of the Year
Voice of SD: Joint Labor-Business Group Prepping a 2018 Convention Center Ballot Measure
Voice of SD: Voice of the Year: Ramla Sahid
Sacramento Bee: Refugees need more help with housing
KPBS: How San Diego's Foreign Language Speakers Stay Informed About Wildfires
Sign-on: Human Rights Day of Action 2017
Organization Sign-On Statement San Diego County is a multinational, multicultural region with vibrant immigrant and refugee populations. With the erosion of public trust in government and increasingly uncivil public discourse, we call on our local lawmakers to stand up for all San Diegans and to ensure that the region'
CityBeat: Refugee Renaissance
Meet the 6 former-refugee winners of last week's elections
[caption id align="alignnone" width="1600"] Top row: Abdi Warsame, Kathy Tran, AK Hassan. Bottom row: Zak Idan, Wilmot Collins, Fartun Ahmed. [https://www.panasd.org/caption] 4 Somali-American candidates swept elections across the state of Minnesota: * Abdi Warsame won a seat on City Council in
El Cajon’s New Majority-Minority Districts
A Tale of Two Neighborhoods PANA’s office is based in City Heights, San Diego, the most diverse neighborhood in all of San Diego County and home to historic refugee community landmarks like Little Saigon and Little Mogadishu. The neighborhood was traditionally more affordable, but in recent decades has begun