How the Big Law firms Trump is targeting support the immigration lobby

Published May 1, 2025 5:00am ET



President Donald Trump is targeting several white-shoe law firms with histories of fighting immigration enforcement, among other liberal legal causes.

The prominent Democrat-aligned law firms that Trump has hit with executive orders are part of a well-funded nationwide apparatus working pro bono on behalf of left-wing activist groups to keep illegal immigrants in the country.

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