The Trump administration said it would no longer fund recreation, English classes or legal services for thousands of immigrant children housed at shelters around the country.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services notified shelters that it was cutting off funding for things that are not directly tied to keeping children alive.
I would argue that if a migrant kid can’t fight a deportation order and ends up back amid the danger he or she just fled, legal services are pretty essential to life.
And for children that are being held in a strange, unfamiliar place while facing a legal maze, soccer can also be very essential to life.