A federal judge has ruled that the administration of President Donald Trump must refrain from deporting back to Guatemala over 600 unaccompanied migrant children who have active immigration cases.

U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee, ruled that the Trump administration could not deport the children.

He ruled that their deportation likely violates the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA), a law approved in 2008 to address concerns about unaccompanied migrant children in the government’s custody. Kelly stated that the administration's arguments for deporting the children, including that their parents had requested their return, "crumbled like a house of cards about a week later."

"There is no evidence before the Co

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