Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer Proposes Immigrant Legal Defense Program – NBC 7 San Diego

San Diego County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer introduced a plan on Tuesday intended to make San Diego the first southern border county in the United States with a program to provide legal representation for immigrants facing removal proceedings. The proposed initiative — the Immigrant Rights Legal Defense Program — is intended to help address the current backlog in immigration courts, while also saving taxpayer dollars and supporting the local economy. The program as proposed would fund attorneys to represent detained immigrants in San Diego County. It would start as a $5 million one-year pilot project, and eventually grow to be a…

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