These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.

https://www.propublica.org/article/unaccompanied-minors-deportations-elder-chavez?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature by Mica Rosenberg and Jeff Ernsthausen Reporting Highlights Rollback of Protections: The Trump administration has gutted policies that gave immigrant minors access to legal counsel and relief from deportation while they applied to stay in the U.S. Detained and Removed: ProPublica’s analysis found unaccompanied minors are being detained and removed at about three times the rate as during the final years of the first Trump presidency. Wave of Deportation Orders: Immigration courts have issued more than 10,000 removal and voluntary departure orders each month for immigrant minors — nearly four times the rate as Trump’s last term.