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Roughly 1,400 undocumented residents in San Mateo County aren’t receiving any legal representation as they face possible deportation out of the United States.

With that data in mind, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to create a new immigrant defense fund with money from the county’s 2018-19 budget.

The board stocked the fund with $764,000 in the first year to hire attorneys to represent some of the 1,372 residents that Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, an organization based at Syracuse University, concluded receive no legal help. The money also will pay support staff for training and outreach to the immigrant community.

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