Legal aid for immigrant children halted without notice
“There’s now an expectation that a child should be able to represent themselves, even if a child is two years old,” said Casey Bryant, executive director of Advocates of Immigrant Rights. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Letter from U.S. Department of Interior stops paid work on cases of hundreds of unattended minors in the Mid-South alone.
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Jane Roberts has reported in Memphis for more than 20 years. As a senior member of The Daily Memphian staff, she was assigned to the medical beat during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also has done in-depth work on other medical issues facing our community, including shortages of specialists in local hospitals. She covered K-12 education here for years and later the region’s transportation sector, including Memphis International Airport and FedEx Corp.
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