Unaccompanied immigrant children in the US lose free legal counsel
by editors@theworld.org (Alisa Reznick) from The World: Latest Stories on (#722VC)
A federally-funded program has long made free legal counsel available to unaccompanied immigrant children seeking asylum in the US. But the Trump administration slashed funding for the program earlier this year. The money has since been restored. As Alisa Reznick of KJZZ's Fronteras Desk explains, the system is still hurting from the lapse.