KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Michigan Immigrant Rights Center managing attorney Elizabeth Santana says they are continuing to urge the Trump administration to change course after being ordered to stop providing legal services for unaccompanied immigrant children.
In the MIRC’s Kalamazoo office, Santana says the children are facing the risk of being sent back to “dangerous and abusive environments in their home countries.”
She says the kids they are representing are as young as just ten-months-old up to teenagers, and include those who crossed into the U.S. alone, were abused, or were trafficked.
Santana says they are working with 800 children in Michigan and there are 26,000 nationwide who are at risk of losing legal representation.
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