A Biden-appointed federal judge blocked the Trump administration from deporting hundreds of child and youth migrants back to their families in their home country of Guatemala.
U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) on Sunday, “blocking any deportations of unaccompanied children from Guatemala and in U.S. custody who did not have a deportation order,” CBS News reported .
Sooknanan’s order came after she had issued a TRO early Sunday, “barring officials from sending a group of 10 migrant children between the ages of 10 and 17 to Guatemala, granting a request from attorneys who alleged the effort would skirt legal protections Congress established,” according to the outlet.
Per the outlet, Drew Ensign, who works as the Department of Justice’