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...Northern California immigration attorneys are reeling after learning of a controversial Trump administration decision to move hundreds of immigrant detainees' court hearings out of San Francisco and to a new courthouse in Van Nuys, a small city north of Los Angeles.
...Responding to the growing numbers of detainee cases on the San Francisco immigration court's docket, dozens of not-for-profit groups and government agencies teamed up to build a network of free legal resources, said Valerie Zukin, who coordinates the Northern California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice.
...One effort Zukin oversees is the "Attorney of the day" program, which ensures that an immigration attorney is in the courtroom whenever detainees at Mesa Verde and other Ice jails have their first hearings in San Francisco.
...The Executive Office of Immigration Review did not immediately respond to questions from the Guardian about why the agency is transferring cases out of San Francisco.
..."We just received notice the court was moving all Mesa Verde cases to Van Nuys," said Francisco Ugarte, the managing attorney for the San Francisco public defender's immigration unit.
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