Guatemalan

US judge bars government from sending Guatemalan children back, for now

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After the United States government loaded children on night aircraft to be returned to their homeland Guatemala, a federal judge temporarily prevented flights – as young people continued at home – where their lawyers said that the authorities violate American laws and send weak children to a possible danger. Extraordinary drama has played over Predawn … Read more

Court hearing set Sunday on US efforts to deport some Guatemalan children; attorneys say planes were set to take off from Texas

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Harlengen, Texas – A federal judge issued an emergency matter preventing the deportation of a group of Guatemali children who crossed the border without their families, with a hearing on Sunday, after the lawyers said that the government seems to be removal operations that would violate the laws that provide protection for immigrant children. Lawyers … Read more