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City advocates say federal legal funding cuts put unaccompanied immigrant children at risk
Summary
Legal service providers told the City Council that near‑total terminations of federal funding for unaccompanied children are forcing lawyers to continue pro bono work and prompting staff layoffs; advocates asked the Council for emergency city funds to stabilize services.
Legal service providers and a citywide coalition described abrupt federal terminations of grants for legal screening and representation for unaccompanied immigrant children, and said the result is an immediate access‑to‑justice crisis.
Sierra Craft of the Eye Care Coalition told the Council that nearly all federal support for unaccompanied children had been cut, leaving more than 1,100 children in New York City with open immigration cases without funded legal services. “Without an attorney, their…
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