"District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan's emergency order follows a legal complaint brought on behalf of 10 children. A United States judge has blocked the administration of US President Donald Trump from deporting unaccompanied Guatemalan children for at least the next two weeks, in the government's ongoing hardline anti-immigration push. The order, which was issued on Sunday in response to a complaint filed by a pro-immigrant advocacy group, came as some Guatemalan children were reportedly already put onto planes at a Texas airport and huddled inside."
"Sooknanan also brought forward a hearing about the issue on Sunday due to reports that some of the children were in the process of being removed from the US during the country's Labor Day holiday weekend. I do not want there to be any ambiguity, the judge said on Sunday, noting that her decision applied broadly to unaccompanied Guatemalan minors."
District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan issued an emergency order after a legal complaint on behalf of 10 children. The judge blocked the administration from deporting unaccompanied Guatemalan children for at least two weeks and expanded the order to include all Guatemalan minors who arrived without a parent or guardian. Some Guatemalan children were reportedly already put onto planes at a Texas airport and huddled inside. Sooknanan advanced a hearing because of reports that some children were being removed during the Labor Day weekend. The National Immigration Law Center argued that planned deportations would violate statutory protections and that the children belong under Office of Refugee Resettlement care, not ICE custody.
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