City council in Santa Ana, Calif., is bolstering its immigrant deportation defense fund by $100,000, bringing the taxpayer-backed program’s funding to $300,000. The fund helps immigrants who are facing potential deportation secure an attorney that would otherwise be difficult to afford. Santa Ana is the only Orange County city to provide such a service. “[Santa Ana provides] legal representation for any resident who’s facing deportation—that could be an undocumented immigrant or legal residence status already,” city spokesperson Paul Eakins told The Epoch Times. The city previously allocated $200,000 annually for the service, but increased it to $300,000 this year. “We’re a city with a large immigrant population and we have undocumented immigrants who live here as well, so it was a priority for the council to increase the funding,” Eakins said. The city began the fund in October 2017, immigrants with access to government-funded counsel. At that time, Santa Ana partnered with the Vera Institute of Justice and the …