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Federal Agents Showed Up at a Children's Legal Aid Office. They Left Empty-Handed.

The Trump administration sent HSI and HHS investigators to three D.C.-area nonprofits representing unaccompanied immigrant kids — without a warrant. The organizations told them no.

Pablo Manríquez
Jun 17, 2026
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Without a warrant. Without a subpoena. Without any legal authority cited at the door.

That’s how federal agents from ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations and the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General showed up at the Washington offices of the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights — and two other nonprofits representing unaccompanied immigrant children — during a 48-hour sweep on or around June 11–12, 2026.

They wanted client files. They wanted financial records. They wanted information about children.

They didn’t get any of it.

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