Starting this Friday, thousands of migrant children in the United States, from infants to teenagers, risk losing the legal assistance that has supported them for years in their immigration cases. A child in federal custody was interrogated for hours by government officials. The fine, levied by Border Patrol, has been reported by attorneys representing children in federal custody in Michigan, New York and Texas since at least September 2025. For fiscal year 2025, ORR reports on its website that it received 22,833 unaccompanied minors referred by the Department of Homeland Security. During that period, the average stay in federal custody was 117 days, more than three times longer than the previous year.