A federal judge issued a 14-day restraining order preventing the administration from deporting ten unaccompanied Guatemalan children aged 10–17. The National Immigration Law Center filed the legal challenge on behalf of the children, arguing that planned removals would violate statutory protections for vulnerable unaccompanied minors. The administration had an agreement with Guatemala to allow removals and planned deportations to begin over the weekend. Office of Refugee Resettlement leadership instructed staff to halt releases of Guatemalan children except those sponsored by parents or legal guardians in the United States.
A federal judge on Sunday issued a restraining order blocking the Trump administration from deporting 10 unaccompanied Guatemalan children back to their home country after lawyers said the removals would violate US laws. The Washington DC-based district judge Sparkle Sooknanan ordered the administration to refrain from deporting the children for 14 days and called for a hearing at 3pm. The National Immigration Law Center, a pro-immigration advocacy group, brought the challenge on behalf of the children, who are ages 10-17.
a process outlined in federal law. Melissa Johnston, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement's program for unaccompanied children, sent an email to staff on Thursday calling for a halt to the release of all Guatemalan children except for those sponsored by parents or legal guardians in the US, according to a copy reviewed by Reuters and one of the former officials.
In a legal complaint filed on Sunday, the National Immigration Law Center and Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights said the deportations would be a clear violation of the unambiguous protections that Congress has provided them as vulnerable children. Defendants are imminently planning to illegally transfer Plaintiffs to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody to put them on flights to Guatemala, where they may face abuse, neglect, persecution, or even torture, agains
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