{"id":115447,"date":"2025-04-18T08:02:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/18\/kids-testify-the-darnedest-things-when-forced-to-represent-themselves-by-the-trump-administration\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:02:49","slug":"kids-testify-the-darnedest-things-when-forced-to-represent-themselves-by-the-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/18\/kids-testify-the-darnedest-things-when-forced-to-represent-themselves-by-the-trump-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Testify The Darnedest Things\u2026 When Forced To Represent Themselves By The Trump Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"437\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/child-lawyer-GettyImages-1046630750-620x437.jpg?resize=620%2C437&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75343\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Image via Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>I have 10- and 8-year-olds, and if I told them go to court alone, I\u2019d be laughed at. You can barely get them to brush their teeth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2014 Amica Center for Immigrant Rights Center Executive Director Michael Lukens in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/unaccompanied-immigrant-children-legal-help-trump-administration-rcna201578\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">an interview with NBC<\/a> regarding the Trump administration\u2019s ongoing refusal to fund legal services for unaccompanied children in immigration courts. A temporary restraining order required the administration to restore funding as of April 1, but failed to comply while challenging the order.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/04\/kids-testify-the-darnedest-things-when-forced-to-represent-themselves-by-the-trump-administration\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kids Testify The Darnedest Things\u2026 When Forced To Represent Themselves By The Trump Administration<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"437\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/child-lawyer-GettyImages-1046630750-620x437.jpg?resize=620%2C437&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75343\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Image via Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>I have 10- and 8-year-olds, and if I told them go to court alone, I\u2019d be laughed at. You can barely get them to brush their teeth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2014 Amica Center for Immigrant Rights Center Executive Director Michael Lukens in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/unaccompanied-immigrant-children-legal-help-trump-administration-rcna201578\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">an interview with NBC<\/a> regarding the Trump administration\u2019s ongoing refusal to fund legal services for unaccompanied children in immigration courts. A temporary restraining order required the administration to restore funding as of April 1, but failed to comply while challenging the order.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/04\/kids-testify-the-darnedest-things-when-forced-to-represent-themselves-by-the-trump-administration\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kids Testify The Darnedest Things\u2026 When Forced To Represent Themselves By The Trump Administration<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Image via Getty) I have 10- and 8-year-olds, and if I told them go to court alone, I\u2019d be laughed at. You can barely get them to brush their teeth. \u2014 Amica Center for Immigrant Rights Center Executive Director Michael Lukens in an interview with NBC regarding the Trump administration\u2019s ongoing refusal to fund legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/child-lawyer-GettyImages-1046630750-620x437-rsyoaP.jpeg?fit=620%2C437&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}