New York Allocating $7 Million for Immigrant Children's Legal Services, Hochul Announces
The funding aims to keep children from facing immigration hearings alone as a lapsed federal contract leaves 20,000 minors at risk, advocates said.
- On Wednesday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced $7.25 million in state funding to provide legal services for roughly 1,400 unaccompanied immigrant children facing deportation proceedings.
- The allocation addresses a critical gap created when the Trump administration allowed a $200 million federal contract providing legal aid for over 24,000 unaccompanied minors nationwide to lapse on July 31.
- Without legal counsel, children as young as 5 often appear in immigration court alone; data shows such minors win relief less than 10% of the time.
- Joining Hochul, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Attorney General Letitia James criticized the federal funding lapse, calling it a "deportation order" for vulnerable youth.
- Amid reports of increasing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations across New York City, state officials vowed to push back against federal overreach threatening immigrant families.
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The state fund seeks to fill the void left by the end of the federal contract guaranteeing legal assistance to minors facing deportation proceedings
City, State Leaders Pledge $7.25 Million in Legal Aid for Immigrant Children Facing Deportation Alone
Since last week, more unaccompanied minors than ever have navigated U.S. immigration court alone. Now, city and state officials have announced a reprieve with an infusion of $7.25 million dollars into legal services to help immigrant children in New York. Flanked by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and State Attorney General Letitia James, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the new funds Wednesday at a press conference in downtown Manhattan. The leaders stood with…
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