I am shocked the attorneys aren’t taking the cases Pro Bono. Its for the children.
Via MOD BEE
San Francisco will become the first city in California to provide funding to help immigrants who face deportation obtain an attorney, officials announced Wednesday.
The $100,000 will go to the nonprofit Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, which will use it to provide free legal representation for immigrants living in the country illegally, the San Francisco Chronicle reported (http://bit.ly/1qKKKBl ).
Supervisor David Chiu, who created the program, said San Francisco is the first city in the state to offer such assistance. It’s an expansion of the city’s Right to Civil Counsel program that had focused on tenants facing evictions. [..]
New York City has a similar program, and California Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials recently announced a proposal to provide $3 million to immigration attorneys.