The Trump administration ordered legal service providers working with unaccompanied migrant children to stop their work, according to a memo obtained by CNN.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday stopped support for legal representation in immigration court for children who enter the United States alone, a setback for those fighting deportation who can’t afford a lawyer.

A new round of federal cuts is hitting legal aid workers for undocumented children of migrants — including hundreds of kids in the Chicago area. When those federal dollars came to a halt, organizations were left fuming,

A new round of federal cuts are hitting legal aid workers for undocumented children of migrants — including hundreds of kids in the Chicago area. Jermont Terry reports.

The Trump administration has paused a program providing 4,000 children in California with immigration lawyers. Some are just months old.

In a memo published on Friday, the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which oversees the care of migrant children, said it would now require that all adult members of a household where a child is to live in the United States must be fingerprinted before the minor can be released by a shelter.

The executive director of the Acacia Center for Justice said the organization has almost 100 subcontractors providing service to some 26,000 unaccompanied minors