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‘Kids have been going to court ALONE’: Inside plan to choose who defends migrant kids in court
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14:35Now PlayingThe Trump administration is hand-picking who defends unaccompanied migrant children facing deportation, including awarding a multimillion dollar contract to a group led by a former senior ICE official. "They hope it will be a rubber stamp on these deportations,” says Lindsay Toczylowski of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center. Many of these children are "abused, neglected or trafficked," adds Bridget Cambria, co-founder of Aldea-the People’s Justice Center. She warns that stripping them of lawyers they trust amounts to "compounded trauma."
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