US judge blocks Trump cuts to legal aid for migrant children


FILE PHOTO: Migrant children make their way inside a building at Casa Presidente, an immigrant shelter for unaccompanied minors, in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., June 23, 2018. REUTERS/Loren Elliott/File Photo

(Reuters) -A federal judge ordered U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to temporarily restore funding for programs that provide legal services for unaccompanied children in immigration proceedings.

U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin in San Francisco late on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order blocking the administration from cutting off funding that advocates said was crucial to ensure 26,000 children could keep their attorneys.

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