At least five San Francisco lawmakers want to boost city funding for immigrant legal defense programs.
Though President Donald Trump has — at least temporarily — held off on a planned immigration-enforcement operation in San Francisco, several members of the Board of Supervisors announced a proposal Thursday to increase immigrant legal-aid funding by $3.5 million.
The proposal was announced just hours after Trump said he would call off a sweeping immigration-enforcement operation that had been planned in San Francisco and prompted local officials to ring alarm bells .
The legislation was sponsored by Supervisor Connie Chan, who was flanked by Supervisors Chyanne Chen, Jackie Fielder, Bilal Mahmood and Shamann Walton at a press conference Thursday. Mayor Daniel Lurie quickly voiced h

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