The Government of Guatemala announced on Sunday, August 31, to reinforce the processes of family reunification of unaccompanied Guatemalan adolescents, returned from the United States after fulfilling due migratory process.
The strategy is based on the principle of the child’s best interest and seeks to ensure that migrants receive safe and orderly attention when re -entered the country. These actions are aimed at those who return by court or their own will from American detention centers.
The initiative arose after a proposal presented by the Guatemalan government to Kristi Noem, Secretary of National Security of the United States, during his visit to Guatemala last July. From then on, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Attorney General’s Office, the Guatemalan Institute for Migration and the Ministry of Social Welfare coordinated efforts to strengthen the Logistics of Return and MEETING.
The Attorney General will identify the specific needs of each adolescent through psychosocial approach and legal accompaniment, in addition to facilitating their integration into social programs.
According to the Executive, these actions are developed under the full respect of human rights and seek to ensure the integral well -being of one of the most vulnerable sectors of the population.
They stop deportations
A Federal Court of the United States suspended deportation of more than 600 Guatemalan minors not accompanied by adults, in a new blow to the draconian anti -immigration policy of President Donald Trump.
These hundreds of children living in the United States were going to be returned to the country by virtue of an agreement signed between the United States and Guatemala, according to a judicial document.
But a judge of the United States District Court for the Columbia district temporarily prevented deportation, after a lawsuit filed this morning by the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), a group of defense of immigrants.
In her 25 -page decision, the magistrate suspended “for 14 days the transfer, repatriation, relocation and transport” of these minors, represented by the NILC in a civil collective claim against the Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem.
The Oenegé accused the Trump administration, which has been implementing its anti -immigration agenda for seven months, of “starting vulnerable and scared children of their beds and trying to put them in danger” when sending them back to Guatemala.
“It reconforts that the court has avoided this injustice before hundreds of children suffered irreparable damage,” said Efrén Olivares, vice president of the NILC, in a statement.
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