Trump administration to use government lawyers to represent migrant children
The Trump administration has quietly organized a team of government attorneys to represent unaccompanied migrant children in immigration court, according to a federal notice.
The announcement, posted by the Department of Health and Human Services, says that HHS lawyers under a new agency division will "provide direct legal services to unaccompanied alien children."
The development comes after the administration cut ties with a number of immigration advocacy groups that had previously provided those services.
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