An emergency motion filed shortly after 1 a.m. sought to halt the removal of 10 Guatemalan unaccompanied children. A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order halting removal of the children, ages 10–17, for 14 days and expanded the order to include any Guatemalan unaccompanied minors in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services, a group the complaint said could number hundreds. A government lawyer confirmed that children planned to fly to Guatemala were taken off airplanes and returned to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. The administration had earlier struck an agreement with Guatemala to repatriate unaccompanied children as part of an immigration crackdown.
A little after 1 a.m. ET on Sunday, the National Immigration Law Center, a pro-immigrant advocacy group, filed an emergency motion with the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. to halt the removal of 10 unaccompanied migrant children from Guatemala.
At a rare hearing over a holiday weekend, District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan said she had been awakened at 2.35am and alerted to the case. Sooknanan issued a temporary restraining order halting removal of the children, ages 10-17, for 14 days.
Sooknanan expanded the order to include any Guatemalan unaccompanied minors in the custody of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The complaint said this group could number hundreds of children. A government lawyer confirmed Sunday evening that the children that it had planned to fly to Guatemala had been taken off the airplanes and were being returned to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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