A federal judge has temporarily blocked flights carrying more than 600 Guatemalan children back to their home country, after attorneys for the minors argued the Trump administration was acting outside established immigration law. According to the Los Angeles Times, Judge Sparkle Sooknanan issued the order in the early hours of Sunday morning following emergency filings that warned deportations were imminent.

“I do not want there to be any ambiguity,” Sooknanan said during the hearing, underscoring that her ruling applied broadly to unaccompanied Guatemalan minors in U.S. custody.

The children, many of whom had already been transported to airports in Texas, will remain in the U.S. while the case proceeds. Officials with the Department of Homeland Security maintain that the effort is a reu

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