The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to expand the county’s Immigrant Legal Defense Program to include unaccompanied immigrant children.

The vote broadens the county program that began in 2021 to provide legal representation for migrant children appearing in immigration court.

“A fair day in court is impossible without a lawyer,” Board Chair Terra Lawson-Remer said in a statement. “Expecting a child to navigate immigration court — in a language they don’t speak — against a federal prosecutor is not just unrealistic, it’s unjust.”

A statement from Lawson-Remer’s office said that federal funding supporting legal representation for unaccompanied migrant children is set to expire at the end of the month.

More than 300 migrant children are in San Diego County and her

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