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A judge extends the order preventing the U.S. from deporting hundreds of children from Guatemala
Miami.- A U.S. federal judge extended until Tuesday the order preventing the Donald Trump Administration from deporting to Guatemala a group of hundreds of unaccompanied minors who are in the custody of the authorities.
“It is ordered that the temporary restraining order entered on August 31 at 12:37 p.m. be extended until September 16, 2025. The defendants (the authorities) remain under the same obligations until then,” established this Saturday Judge Timothy James Kelly, of the District Court for the District of Columbia.
US authorities intended to deport in August 76 minors who were already on a plane to Guatemala, in addition to a total of 327 Guatemalan children “eligible for reunification with their parents or family” in the Central American country, according to court documents.
But the lawyers for the children and adolescents, aged between 10 and 16, argued that the Administration violated due process, as they have pending cases before immigration courts, and ignored the special protections for minors, who crossed the border between Mexico and the United States alone.
“To be clear: the defendants are ordered not to transfer, repatriate, remove, or facilitate the transport of any of the plaintiffs or members of such putative class from the United States”, the judge emphasized now, who asked for more time to analyze the merits of the case.
Faced with this situation, the President of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, announced on September 1st that his government is willing to receive up to 150 unaccompanied minors from the United States each week.
The United States had 2,011 unaccompanied minors in custody in August, according to data from the Office of the Administration for Children and Families, part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), although it does not detail their nationalities.
The repatriation of children has represented a challenge for the Trump Administration due to the Flores Agreement, which was signed in 1997 and establishes that federal authorities cannot keep undocumented minors in detention centers for more than 20 days and must guarantee their safety and well-being.
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