‘Children are going to die’: Advocates decry migrant-child legal contract

By: Gloria Rebecca Gomez

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: August 6, 2026

Words: 1,299

Last Updated: 1 week, 5 days ago

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The federal government’s decision to award a small Texas law firm run by a Trump ally a $150 million contract to represent over a thousand migrant children is nothing more than an attempt to undermine the rights and fasttrack the removal of minors who entered the country alone, including hundreds in Arizona who are seeking asylum, according to immigrant legal aid organizations

Michael Lukens, the executive director of the Amica Center for Immigrant …

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