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Alexandra Villarreal in New York

Revealed: attorneys rally to free children held in US immigration custody

Children stand near an iron mesh fence.
Unaccompanied minors wait to be processed by US border patrol agents near the US-Mexico border in 2021. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images

An army of attorneys is rallying to free hundreds of children from immigration custody, where they have been stranded indefinitely by the Trump administration without their parents or loved ones, the Guardian can reveal.

The effort is a counter strike to what critics see as unprecedented moves by federal officials to ride roughshod over children’s rights and increase deportations – while in the meantime corralling them in conditions that can allegedly lead to psychological harm.

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