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New city office to aid immigrants

Mayor Nutter creates new Office of Immigrant and Multi-Cultural Affairs

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New city office to aid immigrants

POSTED: Thursday, March 7, 2013, 12:26 PM

Miriam Hill

Saying he wanted to provide better service to Philadelphia’s growing immigrant population, Mayor Nutter on Thursday signed an executive order establishing the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant and Multi-Cultural Affairs.

The office will seek to improve access to city services for people whose English is limited. It also will help develop economic opportunities and educational resources.

Nutter named Jennifer Rodriguez as executive director of the office. She will be paid $100,000 in the job. She previously was Deputy Vice President for Program Services and Sustainable Communities with the Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha, or APM, a community development group.

Fernando Treviño-Martínez will serve as deputy director and will be paid $90,000. He previously was the Pennsylvania State Director of Operation Vote with Organizing for America, formerly the Obama for America campaign.

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:37 PM, 03/07/2013

Shouldn't councilmembers be doing this? Why are we going to shell out more money for this city office?

— LouDiamondPhillipsheadScrewdriver

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:53 PM, 03/07/2013

"Fernando Treviño-Martínez will serve as deputy director and will be paid $90,000. He previously was the Pennsylvania State Director of Operation Vote with Organizing for America, formerly the Obama for America campaign."

at least it won't be politically motivated in its administration(@sarcasm)

— Tom813

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:56 PM, 03/07/2013

So the article states what these two will be paid, and not what they will do to earn those fat checks, which is likely to be little. Typical Philly government.

— DonQ

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:17 PM, 03/07/2013

Another Executive Order hire? Where does it stop? What's next. An EO for a hire to check on Portable Toilets? $150K a year? I think we need to impeach or recall this Mayor....

— oblekr

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:18 PM, 03/07/2013

Why isn't this comments section lit up like a Christmas Tree?? Why aren't more people upset that he's created yet another office? This is ridiculous.

— anon

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:23 PM, 03/07/2013

that's it...coddle them. Why not sit them down and ask them if they want to be real U.S. (taxpaying) citizens. Probably not, since they get all these services without the responsibilities of citizenship. Any the city wonders why it is broke. Come to think of it, they are just teaching them to vote Democrat, so the pols can stay in office.

— TheGuyfromPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:26 PM, 03/07/2013

sorry anon I was busy spitting at pictures of eric holder...

— Iknowyourider

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:30 PM, 03/07/2013

So how much farther up Omabasan's robe can Nutter stick his head ?

— skyfart256

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:34 PM, 03/07/2013

@Iknowyourider, you're forgiven since you were otherwise occupied in another worthy task.

— anon

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:46 PM, 03/07/2013

@anon cool, now that im back. This is a great example of how Mayor peanutter has done a amazing job at bringing jobs ( two people) back to the city...Sure taxes will go, it will help noone already here and drain away more of the money the city does not have. So who is this serving ?

Oh wait that right the dems new work horse of the party, the Latino community it will do nothing for. Ignore the growing Middle Eastern, Indian communities in the city, I mean because they come here, educated, speaking english, and prepared to be part of the community. It will ignore Europeans coming here for the same reasons, Asians because they already have plenty of community based groups to help them.

— Iknowyourider

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:46 PM, 03/07/2013

People in Philly don't get elected because they are the best candidate.

They get elected because they are....need I say?

Scams on scams on scams...and the scammers are the ones with the keys.

— 1000hugs

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:48 PM, 03/07/2013

so taxes are at all time highs, budgets are short of "revenue", but the politicians find money to help immigrants, those that contribute nothing financially to our budgets. So basically, they can't feed americans, but have money to help immigrants. Nice job of prioritizing

— dcn

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:10 PM, 03/07/2013

Who says this is to help immigrants? This is to hire two political cronies who happen to be Hispanic and make it look like City Hall is friendly to us. This, just a week after the slap in the face (pun intended) his pal Judge Dugan gave us in court.

— DonQ

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:07 PM, 03/07/2013

So, what will the Office do? Do immigrants just show up at City Hall if they're lost? Can professional businesses and organizations reach them for support?

— T