"A United States judge has ordered the administration of President Donald Trump to refrain from deporting Guatemalan unaccompanied migrant children with active immigration cases while a legal challenge plays out. Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee based in Washington, DC, kept in place on Thursday an earlier judicial block on the policy, sharply criticising the administration's unproven assertion that the children's parents wanted them deported."
"The reversal came after Reuters published an internal report by a Guatemalan attorney general showing that most parents of the roughly 600 Guatemalan children in US custody could not be contacted. Of those contacted, many did not want their children returned to Guatemala, the report said. In a 43-page opinion, Kelly said the Trump administration's explanation crumbled like a house of cards in light of the Guatemalan government report."
Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the Trump administration to refrain from deporting Guatemalan unaccompanied migrant children who have active immigration cases while litigation proceeds. The judge maintained an earlier judicial block and rejected the administration's unproven assertion that parents wanted children returned. The administration attempted a surprise early-morning removal of 76 Guatemalan minors on August 31, prompting a lawsuit and emergency hearing. The Justice Department initially claimed parents requested returns but rescinded that claim after a Reuters-published Guatemalan attorney general report found most parents could not be contacted and many did not want children returned. The judge blocked rapid deportations of children without final removal orders or attorney general permission.
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