At a press conference Thursday afternoon, Supervisor Connie Chan announced that San Francisco would direct an additional $3.5 million to immigrant legal defense and the Rapid Response Network.

The legal defense funds lawyers for immigrants who need representation, and the Rapid Response Network provides a 24 hour hotline for verifying ICE raids and connecting detained immigrants to attorneys.

Chan, the chair of the city’s Budget Committee, made the announcement alongside her co-sponsors Supervisors Bilal Mahmood, Chyanne Chen, Jackie Fielder and Shamann Walton.

“Despite this morning’s news [that President Donald Trump called off a federal ‘surge’], we know federal agents have been in San Francisco already. For months, we’ve seen how those attempting to follow our legal process abiding b

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