The judge blocks the Trump administration to move to expel Guatemah children

An American judge temporarily blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to deport dozens of unaccompanied Guatemah children in their country of origin.

On Sunday, the judge of the district court Sparkle Sooknan was in response to the reports that the children had been rendered in planes and were about to be sent to Guatemala, where lawyers argued that they would risk abuse and persecution.

Children have arrived in the United States only and are in detention of the government while their immigration complaints are assessed.

The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arevalo, and the lawyers of the United States Ministry of Justice and declared that the children were not expelled, but rather repatriated so that they could be gathered with the family.

President Arevalo criticized the decision and promised to continue to fight to bring the children home as part of a pilot program he had offered to President Trump.

The legal proceedings were launched early Sunday when immigrant defense groups requested an emergency injunction, saying that around 600 children could be placed on planes in Texas and expelled.

Judge Sooknanan then made a temporary ban order which prohibited managers from sending a group of 10 migrant children aged 10 to 17 to Guatemala.

During a hearing in a hurry on Sunday afternoon, judge Sooknanan, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, extended the order to cover all the unaccompanied children who risk deporting. The order will be in place for 14 days.

During the hearing, judge Sooknanan asked for insurance from lawyers from the Trump administration that planes have not already left with children on board.

Deputy assistants, Prosecutor General Drew Ensign, said all planes were “on the ground” in the United States. He told the judge that a plane may have taken off but had returned.

ENSIGN said the flights were not part of an expulsion effort, but for family meetings with parents and other parents in Guatemala.

He also said that the Guatemalan government and relatives of the children had asked the meetings. The plea groups said it was false in at least some cases.

In court documents, children’s lawyers argued that action was in violation of federal laws designed to protect children who arrive in the United States alone. They said some of the children had matters in the process of the immigration judges and expressed credible fears of being returned.

“In the night death during a holiday weekend, the Trump administration has torn the vulnerable and frightened children of their beds and tried to return them in danger to Guatemala,” Efrén C Olivares of the National Immigration Law Center said the complaint in a statement.

“We are encouraged, the court prevented this injustice from occurring before hundreds of children undergo irreparable damage.”

The White House immigration advisor Stephen Miller criticized the judge for blocked theft.

“The minors all declared themselves that their parents are back home in Guatemala,” he wrote on X. “But a democratic judge refuses to let them meet with their parents.”

Since the start of his second term, Trump has embarked on scanning efforts to eliminate undocumented migrants – a key electoral promise that attracted mass support during this campaign.

In June, the United States Supreme Court paved the way for Trump to reproduce the deportations of migrants to countries other than their homeland without giving them the opportunity to increase the risks they could face.