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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gisela Salomon and Rebecca Santana

Trump administration reverses its previous decision and reinstates legal aid for migrant children

Days after telling legal groups who help migrant children who arrive in America alone — some so young they are in diapers or their feet dangle from their chairs in court — that they must stop their work, the federal government Friday reversed itself.

The Trump administration told the groups that they can resume providing legal services to tens of thousands of unaccompanied children. The Acacia Center for Justice said that they received notice from the government of the reversal.

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