Trump Admin Ordered to Restore Legal Aid for Unaccompanied Minors

About 26,000 illegal immigrant children who entered the United States without a parent or guardian currently receive federally funded legal representation.

Children aged 3 to 9 at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas, on March 30, 2021. Dario Lopez-Mills/AFP/Getty Images

A federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration on Tuesday to restore funding for nonprofit organizations providing legal services to illegal immigrant children who entered the United States without a parent or guardian.

U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin issued a temporary restraining order to prevent the administration from terminating the funding, which will remain in effect until April 16.