The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to provide legal representation to unaccompanied minors navigating immigration court alone.

The board voted in favor of including minors in the existing Immigrant Legal Defense Program, which the county created in 2021 to provide immigration attorneys for detainees. That program was already previously allocated $5 million annually, with the county estimating about $300,000 of that will now go to hiring an additional staff member to assist unaccompanied minors.

Board chair Terra Lawson-Remer introduced the measure to include children in response to the federal government's move earlier this year to cut a nationwide program that provided attorneys for minors. In a lawsuit filed over that action, a judge ordered the government to conti

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