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 watches on an American weekend and dubbed them from the stands in Texas to the courtroom in Washington. This was the last confrontation with the Trump administration campaign on Migration The high risks of clash between efforts enforcement and legal guarantees created by Congress for vulnerable immigrants.
Currently, hundreds of Guatemali children who have arrived unaccompanied will remain at a time when the legal battle will remain in the coming weeks.
“I don’t want any ambiguity,” Judge Sparkle said to. Sogananan, who indicated that its rule is widely applied to the Guatemali Palace who have reached the United States without parents or parents.
Minutes after concluding at a hearing scheduled for a hurry on Sunday afternoon, five rented buses withdrew a parked plane at the Harlengen border airport, Texas. Hours ago, the authorities had gone on dozens of passengers – perhaps 50 – towards the plane at part of the airport limited to government aircraft, including deportations. Passengers were wearing colored clothes used in the government’s migrant shelters.
The US government insists that it did not reunite the Guatematic children with parents or guardians who sought to return. Lawyers say to at least some minors that this is nonsense and they argue that in any case, the authorities still have to follow a legal process they have not done.
One of the girl said that her parents, in Guatemala, received a strange phone call a few weeks ago, saying the United States was deporting her. The other children – which were identified only by the first letters – said in the court documents that they were neglected, abandoned, physically threatened, or were abused in their motherland.
The Sunday session came in a case of submitting the Federal Court in Washington, but similar legal procedures were also submitted elsewhere.
In a lawsuit in Arizona, the project of immigrant rights and refugees in Florence said that one of its customers is a 12 -year -old asylum seeker who suffers from chronic kidney disease, needs dialysis to survive and will need kidney transplant. Two other prosecutors, a 10 -year -old boy and his 3 -year -old sister, have no family in Guatemala and do not want to return, according to the group.
Families are scrambled to the Jawatimalan Air Force Base
With the progress of developments in the United States, families gathered at an air base in the capital of Guatemala, the city of Guatemala, in anticipation of trips. Gilberto Lopez said he had traveled all night from his remote city after his 17 -year -old nephew called in the middle of the night, saying he was deported from Texas.
Lopez said that the boy left Guatemala two years ago, at the age of 15, to work in the United States and was arrested about a month ago.
Warning bells for immigrant preachers
Immigrant children arrive in the United States without their parents or guardians routinely to the Refugee Resettlement Office at the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services. They often live in shelters under the supervision of government or with incubating care families so that they can be released to a shepherd-as soon as it is close-live in the country.
Many of them from Guatemala Asylum request Or follow up on other legal means to obtain permission to stay in the United States
A lawyer at the National Center for Youth Law said that the organization began listening a few weeks ago from legal service providers that internal security investigation agents were conducting an interview with children – especially Guatemali – in the facilities of the Refugee Resettlement Office.
Lawyer Becky Wolusin said the agents asked the children about their relatives in Guatemala.
Then, on Friday, defenders began obtaining a word that the hearing of the Young Immigration Court had been canceled, Wolusen said.
Shina Abrar of the Acacia Center for Justice, a legal defense group for immigrants, said that he was notified on Saturday evening that officials had formulated a list of children to return to Guatemala. Avr said that the preachers have learned that flights would leave from the cities of Texas in Harlenglen and Al Baso.
It is not clear whether any planes have already left. Government lawyer Drew River, Washington’s judge, told Washington that one plane may have started, but then returned.
The Ministry of Internal Security, Immigration, Customs and HHS did not respond immediately for the suspension requests on Sunday.
The judge said that after waking up at 2:30 am to process the emergency deposit of children’s lawyers, she spent hours in an attempt to reach federal lawyers and obtain answers.
“I have the government trying to remove unacceptable minors from the country in the early hours of the morning at the weekend, which is surprising,” Sognanan said at the session.
Fast developments are similar to shooting at the weekend in March Hundreds of Venezuelans deported To the maximum security prison in El Salvador. Defenders called a federal judge to stop the deportations they believe is imminent, while the Trump administration was my mother about its plans.
This judge appeared in civilian clothes for a session on Saturday night and tried to prevent flights, but they advanced, as the government said that the matter came too late.
The Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 Guatemali children
Trump administration Planning to remove nearly 700 Guatemali children Whoever comes to the unaccompanied United States, according to a message sent by Senator Ron Widen on Friday, is a democratic in Oregon. The Guatemali government said it is ready to take it.
It is another step in the sweeping of the Trump administration Immigration enforcement effortsWhich includes You plan to send a mutation from officers to Chicago To suppress immigration, intensify deportation and End of protection For people who have permission to live and work in the United States.