The Kansas City-area children most at risk of deportation orders have either been granted or have a case pending to receive special immigrant juvenile status, a humanitarian designation for abused or neglected children. But the Trump administration canceled those protections.

They’re the immigrant children long considered to be the most vulnerable. Many traveled to the U.S. alone, unaccompanied by a parent or guardian. Some were trafficked for labor or sex. A state judge has ruled that each of them has experienced serious abuse, neglect or abandonment and is in need of the state’s care.…