More than 600,000 immigrant children have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without a parent or legal guardian since 2019, according to government data.

Affected organizations said the move would prevent them from offering critical legal services to migrant children who crossed the U.S. southern border without their parents or legal guardians.

The Trump administration ordered legal service providers working with unaccompanied migrant children to stop their work, according to a memo obtained by CNN.

The Trump administration is directing immigration agents to track down hundreds of thousands of migrant children who entered the United States without their parents, expanding the president's mass deportation effort,

Immigration authorities are reportedly targeting a new demographic in an attempt to meet the lofty deportation goals demanded by President Donald Trump: unaccompanied migrant children. The Trump administration last week ordered immigration agents to chase down children who crossed the border without their parents,

The memo, titled “Unaccompanied Alien Children Joint Initiative Field Implementation,” stated that children would be deported if they have existing deportation orders or served with a notice to appear in immigration court.