TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 20, 2025

Tens of thousands of immigrant children who arrived in the United States without a parent could lose legal representation after federal funding was abruptly put on hold this week, the Daily Memphian reports. Casey Bryant, executive director of Memphis’ Advocates of Immigrant Rights, tells the paper that no one knows how long the stop-work order will last or if funding will eventually resume. The group says it has 200 active cases with minors in Tennessee, Arkansas and Northern Mississippi. Another group, Latino Memphis, has a caseload of 126. Both groups say they will find alternative sources of funding to continue their work. “We’ll figure out how we find the money to do this … we have to keep going. We cannot let these children be hanging out there,” said Latino Memphis Executive Director Mauricio Calvo.