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The Trump administration announced the award after allowing the previous contract with a longtime legal provider to expire.<\/strong><\/p>

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A Border Patrol agent gives unaccompanied minors water after they were apprehended near the highway on Feb. 4, 2024, outside Eagle Pass, Texas. (Sergio Flores\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

A small Texas law firm with ties to the Trump administration will be awarded a $150 million no-bid contract to represent unaccompanied migrant children in their immigration court proceedings, according to a notice set to publish in the Federal Register on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Office of Refugee Resettlement, which oversees shelters for unaccompanied children and is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, intends to give the contract to the Houston-based Burke Law Group, the notice said.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration last week allowed the previous contract for legal representation to expire<\/a>, creating uncertainty for some 24,000 children who crossed the nation\u2019s southern border without a parent.<\/p>\n

One of the founders of the Burke Law Group, Marcella Burke, is a former Trump appointee at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department. The company\u2019s website lists two attorneys specializing in immigration and asylum among its 26 employees.<\/p>

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Michael Lukens, executive director of the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights, which provides children legal representation in the D.C. area, said on a call with reporters that the firm was \u201cclearly unqualified.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the previous groups who held contracts to represent immigrant children had nearly 20 years of experience.<\/p>\n

ORR and the Burke Law Group did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

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