Organizations that give legal assistance to children who came to the U.S. alone said agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Health and Human Services tried to enter their offices in what the groups described as part of a campaign to intimidate legal services providers.
Because of the special vulnerability of children, the U.S. government has historically provided legal help to migrant children who came to the U.S. without a parent or guardian. But the second Trump administration has attempted to cut funding to the network of non-governmental legal groups that provide legal help at the same time the administration has taken other steps that advocates say amounts to an attack on immigrant children.
