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🚨BREAKING: This administration wants you to believe ICE is working on finding 300,000 “missing” immigrant children to save them from being trafficked… But here’s the reality: They’re hunting down unaccompanied immigrant children… and then stripping them of legal representation. (And if you’re wondering what YOU can actually do to help, links are in the comments.) These are children who came to the United States without a parent or legal guardian… Many fleeing human trafficking, persecution, neglect, abuse or abandonment. And now, the Trump administration is set to end the contracts with nearly 100 legal organizations, on July 31, which will cut off legal counsel for more than 20,000 unaccompanied children… All while funneling these CHILDREN into fast-tracked court hearings. And to make this all even more disturbing… This administration is already withholding $65 MILLION in payment, for legal work, unless those organizations turn over sensitive information about the CHILDREN they represent… Including unredacted medical evaluations and information about their broader immigration cases. A demand that puts attorneys in the impossible position of choosing between protecting these children’s confidentiality (and their ethical obligations)… or getting paid for work they have already done. And legal advocates warn that handing over this information could give the government a roadmap for mass deporting the very children they are claiming to be protecting. So, do you see what is happening? ICE is tracking down unaccompanied immigrant children. Then, the government is stripping legal counsel for unaccompanied children, demanding sensitive information about them, and speeding up their deportation proceedings… making it harder for these children to have their claims for protection fully heard, and processed. Meaning, these children, who have already survived violence, abuse, and trafficking… could be sent RIGHT BACK INTO IT. Not because they don’t qualify for protection… but because they were never given a fair chance to prove it. So, when this administration tells you they are finding these children to “ensure their safety”, don’t just listen to what they SAY they are doing… Look at what happens AFTER they find them. Because this administration isn’t protecting children. They are making it easier for vulnerable children to disappear. Go to the comments for ways you can help 👇