The judge of the district of Columbia, Sparkle L. Sooknan, ordered the Executive not to deport, for two weeks, ten Guatemalan children included in an emergency application of the National Center for Migration Law, which seeks to stop their repatriation.
According to the lawyers of the minors, between 10 and 16, the administration would have violated due process, since children have pending cases before immigration courts, and ignored the special protections for minors that crossed the border between Mexico and the United States alone.
These ten children are part of hundreds of Guatemalan minors in custody of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which the government would try to deport, according to CNN.
The aforementioned medium indicates that the government describes the process as repatriation, which would imply a voluntary act and not a deportation, which is a forced expulsion. However, several people have expressed skepticism about whether children, of various ages, understand what they accept when leaving the country.
CNN He added that the Trump administration notified the shelters that welcome these children to prepare them for their departure from the United States.
The judge set a hearing for the afternoon of this Sunday in order to review the case.
According to data from the Office of the Administration for Children and Families, dependent on HHS, the United States was under custody to 2,198 children not accompanied in July. Its nationalities were not specified.
The majority of minors who cross the terrestrial border between the United States and Mexico.
Repatriation also represents a challenge for the Trump administration due to the Flores Agreement, in force for three decades. A federal court in Los Angeles (California) currently supervises its implementation, despite the executive’s attempts to end.
The Pact, signed in 1997 after years of litigation, establishes that federal authorities cannot keep undocumented minors in detention centers for more than 20 days and are obliged to guarantee their safety and well -being.