Duckworth, Democrats Call On HHS Secretary To Reverse Plans For Trump Administration Lawyers To Represent Unaccompanied Children In Immigration Court

Duckworth, Democrats Call On HHS Secretary To Reverse Plans For Trump Administration Lawyers To Represent Unaccompanied Children In Immigration Court

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) urged Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to reverse the decision for HHS attorneys to represent unaccompanied children against the Trump Administration’s own deportation machine and restore independent legal counsel immediately. In the let…