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Trump Administration Plans to Have Its Own Lawyers Represent Migrant Kids

The Trump administration has quietly announced that its own lawyers will represent unaccompanied migrant children in immigration court, facing off against other administration lawyers who are trying to deport the kids. Immigration advocates are concerned that the arrangement, announced last week in the Federal Register, could pose a conflict of interest.…

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