Wilfredo, a 10-year-old child from Venezuela, appeared in immigration court on his own two weeks ago, forced to fight his deportation to Ecuador while his mother remained imprisoned in an ICE facility. Like thousands of children in removal proceedings , Wilfredo does not have an attorney. “I was afraid because it was my first time ever going to a court,” he told Univision . The Trump administration manufactured a new wave of chaos for children in immigration proceedings in February 2025 by ordering nonprofit legal service providers to halt work that was previously funded under federal contracts .…