KIND echoes the outrage expressed by congressional leaders in their recent letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regarding the government’s failure to fulfill its contractual obligations under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) of 2008. By failing to provide prompt payments to legal services providers for their work supporting unaccompanied children, the safety of thousands of unaccompanied children in the United States is at risk—and it threatens a system of protection that has served these children for nearly two decades.
Legal services are front-line protection that help safeguard unaccompanied children against human rights abuses, trafficking, exploitation, and other harm. Without an attorney, an unaccompanied child has virtually no chance of making their case before a judge in the complex and adversarial U.S. immigration system.
Please add your name now to join KIND and these members of Congress who are advocating for the continued funding of legal services for unaccompanied children.
