County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer will be asking the board on Tuesday to expand who qualifies for a program that provides immigration legal defense to people in San Diego to include unaccompanied children.

The program currently offers free attorneys to people in immigration custody at Otay Mesa Detention Center or people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Alternatives to Detention program, which includes people with ankle monitors and other tracking devices. Lawson-Remer hopes the board will approve adding unaccompanied migrant children, detained or not detained, to that list.

“The notion to me that anybody could think it was acceptable in any way for a kid to be by themselves and try to represent themselves in court in a complicated federal deportation immigration proceeding, t

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