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US attorneys are freeing children from Trump’s ‘deportation machine’ with a new strategy

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Exclusive: Immigration advocates are securing early release of minors by filing habeas corpus petitions amid crackdown Migrant children stranded alone in prolonged Trump administration custody and targeted by whole-of-government efforts to deport them are starting to win release while they fight their cases – with a fresh legal strategy, the Guardian has found.

A growing army of attorneys across the US is racing around the clock like legal first responders to file petitions of habeas corpus in federal courts demanding freedom for their young clients.

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