Removal of Guatemalan children in US custody expected to begin Sunday: CNN
Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan ordered a 14-day halt on deportations of nearly 700 unaccompanied Guatemalan minors to ensure legal protections and due process are upheld.
- On Sunday, U.S. District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan issued an emergency order blocking the Trump administration from removing more than 600 Guatemalan children, halting staged flights and returns in Harlingen, Texas and El Paso, Texas.
- The Trump administration froze a pilot program to reunify nearly 700 Guatemalan children, while LGML v. Noem was filed just after 1 a.m. Sunday alleging legal violations.
- Advocates warned that the government planned to transfer minors from ORR to ICE for removal, risking due process, as Krish O'Mara Vignarajah previously told Newsweek.
- The court paused removals for at least 14 days, barred flights, and ordered all Guatemalan unaccompanied minors in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services custody off planes and back to ORR facilities.
- Legal challenges have already spread as advocacy groups warn the episode may violate the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act and the Immigration and Nationality Act, echoing earlier deportations to El Salvador this year.
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Judge halts US effort to deport Guatemalan children as planes sit on tarmac - West Hawaii Today
With children already loaded onto planes, a federal judge Sunday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting dozens of Guatemalan minors and demanded assurances that they would remain in shelters until a more permanent ruling.
A group of Guatemalan migrant children had already been put on planes. However, an urgent request from their lawyers prevented their deportation.
Judge prohibits deportation of Guatemalan children from US
HARLINGEN, Texas — After the U.S. government loaded children onto planes overnight to be sent back to their native Guatemala, a federal judge temporarily blocked the flights — with the youngsters still inside — as their attorneys said authorities were…
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