In lead-up to Trump crackdown, an iconic civil rights group fired all the attorneys in its unit defending undocumented migrants
- Posted on February 19, 2025
- By CNN
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In lead-up to Trump crackdown, an iconic civil rights group fired all the attorneys in its unit defending undocumented migrants

With Trump back in the White House after having promised during the campaign to unleash “the largest deportation operation in American history,” the cadre of attorneys at the Southern Poverty Law Center who amounted to a first line of legal defense for undocumented immigrants is no more.