Days after telling legal groups who help migrant children who arrive in America alone some so young they are in diapers or their feet dangle from their chairs in court that they must stop their work, the federal government Friday reversed itself.
The Trump administration told the groups that they can resume providing legal services to tens of thousands of unaccompanied children. The Acacia Centre for Justice said that they received notice from the government of the reversal.
The notice came after the government on Tuesday suspended the program that provides legal representation to children who have arrived in the United States across the border with Mexico without parents or legal guardians. Several organisations that offer assistance to migrant children had criticised the measure and said at the time that the minors were at risk.
The USD 200 million contract allows Acacia and its subcontractors to provide legal representation to about 26,000 children and legal education to anothe