{"id":36761,"date":"2025-03-22T19:13:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T19:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/white-house-reportedly-halts-funding-for-legal-aid-for-unaccompanied-migrant-children\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T19:13:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T19:13:31","slug":"white-house-reportedly-halts-funding-for-legal-aid-for-unaccompanied-migrant-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/white-house-reportedly-halts-funding-for-legal-aid-for-unaccompanied-migrant-children\/","title":{"rendered":"White House reportedly halts funding for legal aid for unaccompanied migrant children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say cuts will mean that children will have to face off alone in court against experienced Ice attorneys<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration is reported to have cut funding to a legal program that provides representation for unaccompanied migrant children, one month after directing immigration enforcement agents to track down minors who had entered the US without guardians last month.<\/p>\n<p>Organizations that collectively receive over $200m in federal grants were informed that the contract through the office of refugee resettlement had been partially terminated, according to a memo issued on Friday by the interior department and <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/trump-administration-halts-funding-legal-aid-migrant-children\/story?id=120033078\">obtained by ABC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/22\/white-house-legal-aid-funding-cuts-unaccompanied-migrant-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say cuts will mean that children will have to face off alone in court against experienced Ice attorneys The Trump administration is reported to have cut funding to a legal program that provides representation for unaccompanied migrant children, one month after directing immigration enforcement agents to track down minors who had entered the US &#8230; <a title=\"White House reportedly halts funding for legal aid for unaccompanied migrant children\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/white-house-reportedly-halts-funding-for-legal-aid-for-unaccompanied-migrant-children\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about White House reportedly halts funding for legal aid for unaccompanied migrant children\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}