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Small Texas law firm without immigration expertise set to receive $150M contract to represent unaccompanied migrant children
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WBAL Baltimore News
(Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) — The Trump administration is set to award a multimillion-dollar contract to a small Texas law firm without immigration expertise to provide legal representation for thousands of unaccompanied migrant children in government custody during immigration proceedings.
None of the firm’s attorneys list immigration law as a practice area.
Legal services providers including Acacia have said that ORR was demanding “client-level data that is confidential and legally privileged.”
In June, DHS agents visited the offices of several Washington-area nonprofit organizations that provide legal services to unaccompanied migrant children.
Last year, ABC News reported that the administration was directing immigration agents to track down unaccompanied migrant children in the United States.