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Unaccompanied immigrant children often appear in U.S. immigration courts without appointed counsel and sometimes alone in front of judges, with a March 2025 policy change putting roughly 26,000 children at risk of losing legal services.
Access to counsel for unaccompanied immigrant children is uneven across the United States: there is no federal constitutional right to appointed counsel in immigration proceedings, leaving a patchwork...
Unaccompanied children arriving in the United States are granted a distinct legal category and a set of procedural and substantive protections under U.S. law — principally the Trafficking Victims Prot...