According to The Guardian, JFCS alleges the Trump administration deliberately targets unaccompanied children for rapid deportation to increase removal statistics. "What a society will tolerate happening to children, they will tolerate happening to anyone," said Dana Gold, JFCS’s chief operating officer. The suit claims children are being deported despite qualifying for legal protections, including Special Immigrant Juvenile, or SIJ, status or T nonimmigrant status for trafficking survivors. Since June, JFCS reports immigration judges have ordered child removals rather than granting time to pursue legal pathways, even when SIJ status was already approved. The government ended legal representation contracts for 20,000 unaccompanied children, forcing many to face judges without lawyers.