President Donald Trump’s deputies have ended agency payments to immigration advocacy groups who want to help young migrants gain legal status.
The Trump administration is replacing nonprofit immigration legal providers with a private law firm, awarding a cooperative agreement worth up to $150 million to a Texas-based firm to represent younger migrants who used a small 2008 migration gateway intended for abandoned teenagers or children, dubbed “Unaccompanied Alien Children,” in immigration proceedings.
According to a Federal Register notice set to be published Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement intends to award the agreement to Houston-based Burke Law Group. The contract would run from Aug...
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