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More than 2.3 million Illegal immigrants who are living in California, six percent of the state’s population, may not have to worry about paying a dime of legal expenses by the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Because of fears of the Trump administration’s plans to deport criminals among the undocumented, several cities and counties in California have set up legal defense funds to pay the bills of illegal immigrants if they are arrested.

Similar legislation to set up a statewide defense fund is moving through the California Legislature with little opposition.

The Voice of OC reported the Santa Ana City Council instructed city staff to work with the ACLU and the UC Irvine School of Law to set up a program to pay the legal bills of illegal immigrants living in the city.

Councilman Vicente Sarmiento sponsored the proposal after immigrant activists told him they were worried about mass deportations.

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San Francisco Patch reported that Mayor Ed Lee gave his blessing to the package and has authorized the city’s Public Defender’s Office to allocate more than $200,000 from the current year’s budget to pay for the new employees.

Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer said there are usually 1,500 people in immigration detention in San Francisco on any given day. As many as 85 percent of them don’t have a lawyer or any way to pay for one.

And without naming names, Fewer also said those illegal immigrants need the city help like never before.

"San Francisco, in the face of a federal attack on immigrant communities, should be leading on this issue and I'm glad that we have taken this important first step,” she said.

Alameda County is going to spend as much as $750,000 to defend illegal immigrants facing the specter of deportation.

County Board President Wilma Chan said as many as 105,000 of the 439,000 people who call Alameda County home are in the U.S. illegally.

“I think this is just the first step,” Chan said. “I’m going to continue to work on this with other funders.”

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Idiot Californians tax dollars at work.