17 h. ago Judge extends temporary measures protecting Guatemalan children from deportation

A federal judge is temporarily keeping measures in place to prevent the Trump administration from deporting Guatemalan migrant children in government custody

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66 h. ago Judge temporarily blocks US effort to remove dozens of immigrant Guatemalan and Honduran children

An Arizona judge has extended a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration’s effort to remove Guatemalan and Honduran children living in shelters or foster care after coming to the U.S. alone

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3 d. ago Trump was barely stopped from deporting a plane full of Guatemalan kids. That could just be the beginning

Lawyers say ICE is imminently preparing to deport Honduran minors in federal custody while Honduran officials say they’re planning for their ‘safe return’

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7 d. ago Legal aid group sues to preemptively block U.S. from deporting a dozen Honduran children

A legal aid group has sued to preemptively block any efforts by the U.S. government to deport a dozen Honduran children, saying it had “credible” information that such plans were quietly in the works

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9 d. ago Chaotic showdown over Guatemalan children exposes fault lines in Trump’s deportation push

A reconstruction of the aborted deportation of dozens of Guatemalan children on Labor Day weekend illuminates the latest clash between the administration’s desire for mass deportations and longstanding legal protections for migrants

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1 week ago Fears of being killed and vomiting from stress: Harrowing court filings reveal Trump admin’s frantic child deportation flights

Teens describe fears of returning to Guatemala and frantic deportation flights before judge blocked their removal

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1 week ago 'I voted for Trump and now my wife's being deported to the UK

Donna Hughes-Brown, 59, has lived in the US for 37 years and has four children and five grandchildren, but she is now facing deportation

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1 week ago What to know about Guatemalan migrant children and efforts to send them home

The Trump administration has tried to deport Guatemalan children living in U.S. shelters or foster care

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1 week ago Guatemala says it is willing to receive hundreds of deported children from US

Announcement comes a day after a US federal judge halted the deportation of 10 unaccompanied Guatemalan minorsGuatemala is ready and willing to receive about 150 unaccompanied children of all ages each week from the United States, the country’s president has said, a day after a US federal judge halted the deportation of 10 Guatemalan children.Those children had already boarded a plane when a court responded to an emergency appeal on Sunday. They were later returned to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump and his team had children sitting on planes ready for deportation

The unaccompanied children could suffer ‘irreparable harm’ if they are removed to Guatemala, their lawyers argued

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1 week ago Judge stops U.S. from deporting group of unaccompanied Guatemalan children after some were loaded on planes overnight at Texas airport

The order comes as the Trump administration reportedly prepares to send federal agents to Chicago as part of its immigration crackdown

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1 week ago Judge orders US to halt deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children

Washington judge says unaccompanied children cannot be deported for at least 14 days as legal process unfoldsA US judge on Sunday ordered an emergency halt to a plan by the Trump administration to deport a group of nearly 700 unaccompanied Guatemalan children back to their home country after immigrant advocates lawyers called the plan “illegal”.Attorneys for 10 Guatemalan minors, ages 10 to 17, said in court papers filed late on Saturday that there were reports that planes were set to take off within hours for the Central American country. But a federal judge in Washington said those children couldn’t be deported for at least 14 days, and after a hastily scheduled hearing on Sunday, she enforced that they needed to be taken off the planes and back to the Office of Refugee Resettlement facilities while the legal process plays out. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Federal judge temporarily blocks US from deporting children to Guatemala

Washington judge says 10 unaccompanied children cannot be deported for at least 14 days as legal process unfoldsA US judge at least temporarily blocked the government on Sunday from deporting a group of Guatemalan children who had crossed the border without their families, after their lawyers said the youngsters were loaded onto planes overnight and in violation of laws affording protections for migrant kids.Attorneys for 10 Guatemalan minors, ages 10 to 17, said in court papers filed late on Saturday that there were reports that planes were set to take off within hours for the Central American country. But a federal judge in Washington said those children couldn’t be deported for at least 14 days, and after a hastily scheduled hearing on Sunday, she enforced that they needed to be taken off the planes and back to the Office of Refugee Resettlement facilities while the legal process plays out. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Federal judge blocks US from deporting unaccompanied children to Guatemala

Washington-based judge says removals of 10 children would violate US laws and schedules hearing for afternoonA federal judge on Sunday issued a restraining order blocking the Trump administration from deporting 10 unaccompanied Guatemalan children back to their home country after lawyers said the removals would violate US laws.The Washington DC-based district judge Sparkle Sooknanan ordered the administration to refrain from deporting the children for 14 days and called for a hearing at 12.30pm. The National Immigration Law Center, a pro-immigration advocacy group, brought the challenge on behalf of the children, who are ages 10-17. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Court hearing set Sunday on US efforts to deport some Guatemalan children

U.S. attempts to deport some Guatemalan children are on hold until at least Sunday afternoon

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2 w. ago Farage rows back on plan to deport women and children as part of migration crackdown

On Tuesday, Nigel Farage indicated the party would detain and deport women and children as part of their plans - but the following day insisted media reports which said he would do so were ‘wrong, wrong, wrong’

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2 w. ago Farage rows back on plan to deport children as part of migration crackdown

On Tuesday, Nigel Farage indicated the party would detain and deport women and children as part of their plans - but the following day insisted media reports which said he would do so were ‘wrong, wrong, wrong’

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2 w. ago Farage rows back on plan to deport children in Reform asylum crackdown

Nigel Farage said Reform would detain and deport women and children to tackle the small boats crisis – but a day later insisted media reports were ‘wrong, wrong, wrong’

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2 w. ago Nigel Farage's deportation plans take puzzling twist after women and children remark

Nigel Farage claimed he was 'clear' that women and children would not be deported in the first five years of a Reform government - 24 hours after his sidekick said the opposite

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2 w. ago Tory chair says party would consider deal with Taliban to return Afghan migrants – UK politics live

Kevin Hollinrake says party would ‘potentially’ set up returns agreement with country as he says deportation plan is ‘far more comprehensive’ than Reform’sNigel Farage has been accused of “ugly” and “destructive” rhetoric after announcing plans to deport hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and pledging to pay despotic regimes such as the Taliban to take them back.Unveiling Reform UK’s “Operation Restoring Justice” at a combative press conference in Oxford, Farage said he would rip up the UK’s postwar human rights commitments, contained in a range of international conventions, to deport “absolutely anyone” – including women and children – arriving by small boat.We really are through the looking-glass now. Nigel Farage pretending to be patriotic while pledging to rip up Britain’s proud record of leading the world on human rights.As we’ve seen across history, his populist playbook is ugly, powerful and incredibly destructive. We know where it will lead if we don’t stop it.If today ...

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