If the left was doing something illegal stuff that the right doesn't like, the right would have the place swarming with media and would talk about it 24/7 for months until people are on the streets looking for blood.
But since it's the right doing it, the left just goes "oh I guess there's nothing we can about this".
This doesn't make sense because clearly the child was living with a caretaker who can take responsibility for the legal representation. And if the caretaker is the US government, they should bring a representative from the Mexican consulate to represent the child, assuming the child is a Mexican citizen.
Immigration court is nuts. They’re civil offenses, not criminal. That means the accusation only needs to be proven with a preponderance of evidence, not beyond a reasonable doubt. And there’s no right to have a public defender if you can’t obtain your own lawyer. But the potential outcome is exile from your home.