Dunleavy to open job center for immigrants

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Gov. Mike Dunleavy will cut the ribbon on the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development’s new Office of Citizenship Assistance in midtown Anchorage on Monday at 2 p.m. It will be a place where legal immigrants will have access to job placement and career training assistance, information about workplace safety, and it will serve as a navigation center to connect legal immigrants to other services that allow them to integrate into Alaska and become productive citizens more quickly, the governor’s office said.

Also attending the ribbon cutting will be Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development Cathy Munoz, Deputy Commissioner Nelson San Juan, and Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom. No details were disclosed about the cost of the center or why it is needed.

Alaska has a small community of immigrants, many of whom are from Samoa and the Philippines. About 7.5 percent of the state’s residents are foreign-born.

8 COMMENTS

  1. Who is paying for this training?
    State funds or Federal grants with all the control strings?
    In the end it’s taxpayer money. Alaska…quit spending money you don’t have, quit stealing it from my permanent fund dividend…just stop spending.

  2. I hope this state has an attorney to file a lawsuit against this administration for the unequal treatment of immigrants. This office needs to be shut down….before it gets started.

  3. Legislators considered this new government program a budget priority this year. They ran out of money for school bond debt reimbursement, senior/veteran property tax reimbursement, the PFD, and some other “not important” things, but they still found enough money left over to spend $437,800 on this.

    The vote was 35-5 to make this a spending priority this year. The only legislators who opposed this were Allard, Carpenter, Eastman, Rauscher, Stapp.

    Amendment #117
    ‘https://www.akleg.gov/PDF/33/A/HB0268-H117.PDF

    Roll Call Vote
    ‘https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Journal/Pages/33?Chamber=H&Bill=HB%20268&Page=02231#2231

  4. And they should be told that they will have to endure 7 months of cold, ice and snow, dark, hard living, high rent and utilities and a cost of living that tops the nations average, Bear and Moose encounters, unsafe traveling conditions, worlds strongest earthquakes, high crime rates, and Alaska is not for everybody.

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