HARLINGEN, Texas (Border Report) -- The lead lawyer in a lawsuit to stop unaccompanied Guatemalan children from being deported from the United States describes how dozens of children were loaded onto planes and readied for removal to their home country from South Texas.
Efrén Olivares, of the National Immigration Law Center, joins Border Report Live on this episode where he talks about their lawsuit that has temporarily blocked deportation of upwards of 600 children who crossed the U.S. border without a parent or guardian seeking asylum or refuge.
Originally, the lawsuit was filed for 10 children against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other federal government officials.
But as the case unfolded it has come to represent hundreds more children the Trump administration wants t