A federal judge on Sunday temporarily blocked the deportation of some 600 Guatemalan children by the Trump administration. The order came as some of the children sat on flights waiting to take off for Guatemala. The judge said the government violated their rights to due process and ignored protections for minors who crossed the border alone.

Attorney Efren Olivares of the National Immigration Law Center said, "It defies any reason or logic, the cruelty of the most powerful, the richest country in the world, going after a seven-year-old and preventing him from even talking to a judge about his immigration case."

However, the Trump administration insisted it was acting at Guatemala's request to reunite those minors with their parents.

The ruling comes as President Trump is now threatening

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