A watchdog office tasked with hearing complaints about the federal government’s handling of unaccompanied migrant children has been kneecapped by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency push to slash the federal workforce.
It’s one of several signs of a shift under President Donald Trump in how the federal government deals with immigrant children who enter the US alone. Legal services providers say a stop work order has also frozen legal representation of the unaccompanied kids.
The DOGE cuts eliminated much of the staff in the Unaccompanied Children Office of the Ombuds, an oversight body inside of the US Department of Health ...