Overview
- A Washington, D.C., district judge issued a 25-page order suspending transfer, repatriation and transport of more than 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan minors for 14 days.
- The National Immigration Law Center filed a class-action lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on the children’s behalf, alleging the removals would endanger them and violate their rights.
- NILC said flights were halted following the injunction, including at least one plane that was recalled after takeoff.
- The children were slated for return under a U.S.-Guatemala arrangement that officials describe as facilitating reunification with families.
- In a separate case days earlier, another federal judge blocked an expedited-removal process at the U.S.-Mexico border on constitutional grounds.