Trump taps military lawyers to replace migrant-kid legal teams
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Trump has severed nonprofit and legal-aid contracts that provided legal representation for unaccompanied migrant children and is now recruiting active and retired military lawyers to replace them, a move critics say dismantles a vulnerable safety net and could increase the deportation risk for minors facing removal.
- Trump fired the attorneys for migrant kids. He’s recruiting military lawyers. NBC News
- Trump Officials Scrap Effort to Recruit Pentagon Lawyers to Represent Migrant Children The New York Times
- Ranking Members Robert Garcia and Ron Wyden Launch Inquiry into Shady Groups Awarded $394 Million in Contracts by Trump Administration to Represent Unaccompanied Children House.gov
- Who Represents Unaccompanied Migrant Kids in Immigration Court KQED
- Trump administration attacks unaccompanied children right to counsel American Immigration Council
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