{
  "id": 1014424,
  "title": "How Trump Is Trying to Weaken Migrant Children’s Legal Defense",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/how-trump-is-trying-to-weaken-migrant-childrens-legal-defense",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-15T10:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The New Yorker",
    "slug": "the-new-yorker",
    "url": "https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-trump-is-trying-to-weaken-migrant-childrens-legal-defense"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Trump Administration recently awarded legal representation contracts to two firms, Burke Law Group and Our Rescue, to assist unaccompanied migrant children. Burke Law Group, a relatively small Texas-based firm, was chosen despite lacking expertise in immigration law. The firm's founder, Marcella Burke, has ties to previous administrations and a conservative political background. In contrast, Our Rescue, a nonprofit organization unrelated to legal services, received a larger contract focused on combating human trafficking. Both firms were selected to maintain continuity of legal services for unaccompanied alien children.",
  "summary": "After failing to eliminate funding for unaccompanied minors’ lawyers altogether, the Administration is pushing cases toward entities that lack both immigration expertise and the capacity to take them on.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}