Court battle leaves tenuous funding for unaccompanied migrant children’s legal representation

Court battle leaves tenuous funding for unaccompanied migrant children’s legal representation

Children play on a swingset at a migrant shelter in Anapra, just across the border from Sunland Park, in 2023. (Photo by Corrie Boudreaux for Source NM)Attorneys for unaccompanied migrant children in New Mexico say a federal judge’s order keeps in place money for their legal representation for now — or at least until the Trump administration appeals to the nation’s highest court. For decades, Congress has required the federal government to ensur…