The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to award a single-source cooperative agreement worth up to $150 million to Houston-based Burke Law Group to provide legal services for eligible unaccompanied migrant children in federal custody.
Unaccompanied migrant children are minors who arrive in the United States without a parent or legal guardian available to care for them. After they are apprehended by immigration authorities, they are transferred to ORR, which is responsible for their care and custody until they can be released to vetted sponsors, usually family members, while their immigration cases continue.
