June 8, 2021
On May 18, 2021, President Biden announced the reinvigoration of the White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable (LAIR), an initiative dedicated to strengthening legal services and access to justice.[1] KIND commends the administration for this important action and emphasizes that, consistent with the statutory requirement that the federal government maximize legal representation of unaccompanied migrant children,[2] LAIR and its participating members should work to expand representation rates among this uniquely vulnerable population. Without attorneys, it is all but impossible for unaccompanied children to navigate the U.S. immigration system.
