The MCYD Board would like to affirm our support for CASA as an organization that does excellent work for the immigrant community here in Montgomery County and around the country. In the past 15 years, they have been a leading voice for immigrant rights and reform. As a recent Maryland Matters article describes it, they are “the biggest and most consequential immigrants’ rights group in the Mid-Atlantic.” Recent dialogue has diminished the tremendous impact of what they do. We, as a collective, believe that CASA should not be stripped of critical funding to support their work and grassroots organizing efforts that benefit thousands of migrants in the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia area.