Breaking down the heated exchange over immigration at Austin City Council

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The hot-button issue of immigration is also keeping Austin council members at odds with each other.
At Thursday’s city council meeting, Council Members Ellen Troxclair and Greg Casar got into a heated exchange about funding emergency funds for immigration legal services. After much back and forth, city leaders agreed to expand a year-old $100,000 program offering mental health and legal aid to new arrivals by another $200,000 in an emergency, one-time funding.
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