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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Maanvi Singh

Trump administration restores legal aid for unaccompanied immigrant children

Unaccompanied immigrant children, aged between three and nine, watch TV inside a playpen at a holding facility in Donna, Texas, on 30 March 2021.
Unaccompanied immigrant children, aged between three and nine, watch TV inside a playpen at a holding facility in Donna, Texas, on 30 March 2021. Photograph: Dario Lopez-Mills/AFP/Getty Images

The Trump administration has rescinded its decision to cut off legal aid for unaccompanied immigrant children, just three days after it ordered government-funded attorneys across the country to immediately stop their work.

The Acacia Center for Justice and the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) confirmed that the stop-work order affecting non-profits that provide legal counsel for about 26,000 unaccompanied minors had been lifted.

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