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From the Washington Free Beacon: The Trump administration this week ended funding for an immigrant legal group that says the immigration system is “intentionally designed” to exploit minorities and has called for disciplinary action against attorneys and judges who fail to use correct pronouns for illegal aliens during court proceedings.
The Acacia Center for Justice said Tuesday that the Department of the Interior ordered it to “stop all work” on its contract to provide legal services to unaccompanied alien children—those apprehended at the border without parents. Acacia Center is the lead contractor on a $769 million contract to provide the services.
The agency did not provide a specific reason for the stop work order. But the Trump administration has waged a broad effort through the Department of Government Efficiency, the quasi-agency led by Elon Musk, to cut wasteful federal spending. DOGE has set its sights on spending for DEI programs and other progressive initiatives.
While Acacia Center says its federal programs help illegal aliens navigate the complex immigration and deportation process, it also pushes activist rhetoric about the immigration system, the Washington Free Beacon reported this month.
Just launched in 2022 during the Biden administration, the Acacia group has argued that “no immigrant should be detained,” has declared that ankle monitors used to track illegal aliens “must be abolished,” and has called for the use of local law enforcement to carry out immigration enforcement to be “dismantled.”
The group has also suggested that attorneys and judges should face disciplinary action if they fail to “affirm gender identity for noncitizens” during immigration court proceedings.
The Acacia Center has also accused the U.S. detention and deportation system as being racist, saying it is “intentionally designed to exploit, exclude, criminalize, detain, and deport” people deemed to be “undeserving of inclusion in our national fabric, particularly Black and brown people.”
Breaking News: The Trump administration issues a stop work order to the Acacia Center for Justice, while helps 26,000 unaccompanied migrant children access legal representation. This organization funds our ability to represent children in TN & AK. #news https://t.co/NZctEhjhDO
— Advocates for Immigrant Rights (@_AIRLegal_) February 19, 2025
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