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Public resources and he defends his use of tax dollars. >> we're going to invest the resources needed to make sure that the 44,000 undocumented people who live in the city and county of san francisco have at a minimum legal representation if they're taken into immigration court. >> reporter: the move faces opposition even inside city hall. mayor ed lee, staunch supporter of policies friendly to illegal immigrants, says he's concerned about the funding aspects of this, while critics of the whole idea contend moves like this continue to encourage illegal immigration. >> what we need to be sendin...

Deserves the same access to public resources and he defends his use of tax dollars. >> we're going to invest the resources needed to make sure that the 44,000 undocumented people who live in the city and county of san francisco have at a minimum legal representation if they're taken into immigration court. >> reporter: the move faces opposition even inside city hall. mayor ed lee, staunch supporter of policies friendly to illegal immigrants, says he's concerned about the funding aspects of this, while critics of the whole idea contend moves like this continue to encourage illegal immigration. ...

Court. >> reporter: critics say moves like this continue to lay out the welcome mat for illegal immigrants threatening national security. >> we've seen from the past two administrations at least to encourage illegal immigrants. what we need is to send a message around the world of discouragement to reduce the flow to our boarder and that will make securing the boarder easier. >> reporter: this legislation to hire more immigration defense attorneys is working its way through the various budget economies with a vote expected early next year, but city officials may have to consider which city pro...

Aside millions of dollars, 5 million in san francisco to hire lawyers to fight deportations. but eventually city officials may have to consider which city programs have to go because president-elect trump also vowed to cut federal funding for sanctuary cities, and here in san francisco that could total over a billion dollars. back to you. >> lot of money. see if san francisco puts their money where their mouth is. one of the most devastating stories we covered in the last several years. investigators releasing details about the cargo ship el faro, including the audio transcript from the blac...

Because i know you've covered him a lot, he has presided over tremendous cuts at home in new jersey. cutting family care, $100 million. that's their local program for health care for poor people. eliminated after the three, a great new jersey program that tried to give low-income students a place to go after school, $100 million from city programs that were for some of the poorer cities. cuts to medicaid. okay, this is a guy -- i could go on. we don't have the time. >> you're such a liberal. >> if there's one thing in common with every program i just mentioned, it's that it was for poor and mi...