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Government Picks Unproven Firm for Migrant Kids | Irvine News
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The government just handed $150 million to a Houston law firm with minimal immigration experience—just as it’s ramping up deportations and letting a major legal aid contract expire. Burke Law Group, whose founder worked in the EPA under Trump and whose lawyers mostly specialize in corporate law, now holds a one-year deal starting August 15th. Critics are sounding the alarm: vulnerable migrant children could be wrongly deported without proper legal representation, especially since the government chose a single-source agreement without competitive bidding. Laws like the Trafficking Victims Protection Act mandate legal help for these kids, but with the old network of 100+ organizations gone and this untested firm stepping in, advocates fear a dangerous gap in due process is forming.
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