***MEDIA ADVISORY***
The Stop Work Order cuts off a lifeline for unaccompanied children.
WHEN: Wednesday, 2/19/25 at 4 PM ET
ZOOM REGISTRATION HERE
Washington—Immigration law experts will respond to the Trump Administration’s Stop Work Order to halt the federally funded and congressionally appropriated Unaccompanied Children Program. Unaccompanied children, many fleeing unspeakable violence in their own countries, enter the United States. Upon apprehension and after enduring a harrowing journey, they are detained in facilities contracted by the Office of Refugee Resettlement and placed in deportation proceedings.
This Stop Work Order means that 26,000 children could lose their attorneys, and children as young as infants will be forced to go to immigration court alone.
Speakers will also provide a holistic picture of the current state of immigration in the United States in the first month of the Trump administration, connecting the threat of mass deportation raids to these recent actions that strip away due process for immigrant children. Registration is required. Questions from members of the press are welcome.
How is the Stop Work Order being enforced?
What does this look like for unaccompanied children?
How will legal organizations defend the due process and civil liberties of immigrant children?
Speakers:
- Michael Lukens, Executive Director, Amica Center for Immigrant Rights
- Daniela Hernández Chong Cuy, founder and directing attorney of the Law Office of DHCC
- Lindsay Toczylowski, President and CEO, Immigrant Defenders Law Center
- Gerson Navidad, previously unaccompanied minor, Program Associate at Immigrant Defenders Law Center
- Lillian R. Aponte, Esq., Executive Director, Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
- Susan E. Reed, Director, Michigan Immigrant Rights Center