Judge Temporarily Blocks U.S. Efforts to Deport Guatemalan Children
Judge blocks secretive mass deportation of children
Minors were removed from shelters overnight by immigration authorities. A hearing was scheduled for Sunday afternoon.
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting Guatemalan children back to their home country, and scheduled an emergency hearing on Sunday afternoon to determine whether deporting them would be legal.
Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued the order after the National Immigration Law Center filed an emergency request in federal court to stop the deportations. The lawyers argued that the government had violated the children’s rights to due process and had ignored special protections for minors who cross the border alone.
The court forbade the administration from deporting the children, who are as young as 10, for 14 days.
Even so, dozens of children were removed by immigration authorities from shelters overnight and were gathered in preparation to be placed on chartered planes to Guatemala, according to officials with knowledge of the situation.
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