Carmen Chavez, executive director of Casa Cornelia Law Center, has spent two decades working with unaccompanied minors, often standing alongside them in court.

“A very terrifying process for them because they don't know and they don't understand,” Chavez said.

The chair of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, Terra Lawson-Remer, is worried some 300 kids in San Diego will be left to navigate that process without legal representation at the end of this month. The Trump administration cut federal funding for legal representation for unaccompanied minors earlier this year, but a court order continued it until the end of September.

"It's pretty heartbreaking —and, more than heartbreaking, it's immoral,” said Lawson-Remer. “Imagine that there's a kid — there's 4-year-olds, 6-years-olds,

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