A Somerville city councilor called the United States "a terrible country" during a recent discussion about what accounting method the city should use to provide public funds to pay for legal services for immigrants who are not in the country legally.
"You gave a little bit of information on being able to acquire legal services for extended periods of time. Of course, immigration cases are not – they're not done quickly. We live in a terrible country. And that holds up a lot of folks' lives in an awful way," said Charlotte Kelly, an at-large city councilor, during a meeting of the Somerville Finance Committee on Thursday, October 20.
