Every year, immigration officials discover more than 8,000 children who’ve come to the states unaccompanied.
These kids have to figure out how to find and pay for their own lawyers while facing deportation.
Microsoft has partnered with actress Angelina Jolie to grant $3 million to Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), an organization based in Washington, D.C. that helps young people who are facing the immigration system alone.
KIND has helped almost 1,900 kids originating from more than 35 countries in the past year. More than 1,900 attorneys have received training from KIND in an effort to build a national pool of lawyers for unaccompanied kids in the U.S.
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