A group of attorneys filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging the accelerated immigration process for unaccompanied migrant children, saying the Trump administration’s policies are unlawful.
Under President Donald Trump, unaccompanied migrant children have been increasingly forced to navigate a complicated and accelerated immigration process with dwindling help after the administration ended a long-standing contract for legal services this summer — and as administration officials try to wrap their cases at an unprecedented pace.
“This is not the immigration process that Congress intended for unaccompanied children; it is a deportation assembly line depriving them of their rights,” the
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