Jorge Rivas, head of the San Francisco Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs, spoke at the Excelsior District Improvement Association’s Tuesday meeting about a range of resources, from the rapid response hotline to citizenship workshops.
The presentation was particularly timely, given the arrests made by plainclothes immigration officers at San Francisco International Airport over the weekend. Rivas revealed the office’s greatest challenge: keeping up with the times.
“It’s about meeting the moment that we're in and making sure that we're pivoting to address what comes our way,” Rivas, who’s the son of Mexican immigrants, said to the seven attendees in the Crocker Amazon Clubhouse. “I feel like every week we need to do something new.”
