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Law firm with ties to Trump administration declines offer to represent migrant children

  • Small Houston firm with Trump-era ties, Burke Law Group, declined a $150 million federal offer to represent unaccompanied migrant children, leaving uncertainty over who will take the cases.
  • The administration let a large contract with nearly 100 providers expire and issued a temporary $20 million deal to the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, whose lawyers’ sudden court appearances caused confusion.
  • Prior providers sued over unpaid work; a judge ordered payments and agencies have begun sending partial payments (covering six of nine months owed).
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