24,000 immigrant children stand to lose legal representation

Legal services contract expires, and unaccompanied immigrant children face deportation

WASHINGTON — More than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children Monday lost their legal representation because the Trump administration has not entered into a new agreement to take over their legal services after it let a longstanding contract with a nonprofit expire. Without legal representation, fewer than 10% of immigrant children win the right to remain in […]

DeLauro says Trump policies are keeping immigrant children in federal custody longer

U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) (Molly Ingram / WSHU )U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) has called attention to the plight of unaccompanied immigrant children in federal custody after an oversight visit to a transitional foster care site in New Haven.Children at the site, some as young as five, are being kept there by the federal government’s Office of Refugee Settlement, separated from their families for hundreds of days, in violation of…

24,000 immigrant children stand to lose legal representation

More than 24,000 immigrant children who arrived in the United States without a parent or guardian and are facing deportation could lose access to legal representation this week when a federal contract funding nonprofit legal services expires, leaving some organizations to scale back or end assistance altogether. Read more...

Immigrant children could face court hearings without lawyers, Chicago attorneys warn | Illinois State Bar Association

Immigrant children could face court hearings without lawyers, Chicago attorneys warnNew concerns have emerged from immigration attorneys that about 26,000 vulnerable immigrant children across the nation could face deportations -- without lawyers to represent them in court. Source: NBC 5 Chicago