HARLINGEN, Texas (Border Report) -- Lawyers representing hundreds of Guatemalan children targeted for deportation on Labor Day weekend on Monday called "chaos" the hours leading up to planes loaded with children in South Texas.

"The chaos was at all levels," said Roxana Avila-Cimpeanu, deputy director of the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, which assists migrants with free legal representation in Arizona.

"We were ready to act immediately to prevent the removals. We made repeated attempts to communicate with various government agencies and staff in order to get more information regarding which clients are being targeted, why they were being forcibly removed, who made that determination, and how they did so. But we were kept in the dark, and we continue to be kept in the dar

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