unaccompanied minors

Trump officials scrapped an effort to recruit Pentagon lawyers specifically for representing migrant children. The reversal of this plan was not publicly disclosed and comes amidst growing confusion over how the administration is protecting the rights of unaccompanied minors.

The UN reported that over 80% of civilian deaths in Sudan at the start of this year were caused by drone attacks. Spain is addressing the situation of over 1000 unaccompanied minors in Ceuta who cannot be legally deported.

Over 25,000 unaccompanied minors in the U.S. will lose legal representation as a federal contract with legal service providers expires. The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) stopped funding after lawyers refused to share confidential client information, leading to concerns about children being deported without legal help.

At least 18 migrants have died as thousands breached a Spanish enclave in North Africa, causing chaos in a Moroccan border town with migrants throwing rocks and torching police cars. Spanish officers warned of a humanitarian crisis, citing unaccompanied minors sleeping on the streets.

The end of a federal legal services contract for unaccompanied minors leaves over 1,400 in New York without assistance. Many migrants, including children, are fleeing poverty and violence in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

The Trump administration is allowing a legal services contract for unaccompanied minors to expire, with the US government owing $65m to the firm. Payments were halted in December, and critics argue the administration is fast-tracking deportations of immigrant children despite laws protecting them.

The Trump administration has requested Texas's assistance in providing legal services to immigrant children facing deportation. Immigration rights experts express concern that this move could facilitate the transfer of unaccompanied minors to Texas for quicker deportation.

The Trump Administration, through the Department of Justice (D.O.J.), accelerated immigration cases involving unaccompanied minors and dismissed judges who did not comply with these directives.

Lone children were held at UK-run detention centres in France 284 times last year, according to Freedom of Information data. Over four years, about 900 instances of unaccompanied minors being detained at British short-term facilities near Calais and Dunkirk were recorded. Refugee charities described the numbers as 'shocking'.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has contracted a private security company accused of 'torture' and 'enforced disappearance' to locate unaccompanied undocumented immigrant children. The contractor denies the allegations, which include severe human rights violations.