A federal judge temporarily reinstated a program providing lawyers for 26,000 children. Nonprofits representing the children had already begun laying off staff.
A federal judge in Northern California ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore legal funding for migrant children in immigration court.
Nonprofits representing unaccompanied minors challenged the administration in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California after the government notified them on March 21 that their contract would be terminated. The program provides legal representation to about 26,000 children, some of whom are too young to read or even speak.
The groups held the government is legally obligated to provide representation to vulnerable children under a 2008 anti-trafficking law.
