Lawyers dispute the expulsion of hundreds of minors in Guatemala

Bat lawyers of immigrants asked a Washington Federal Judge on Wednesday on Wednesday, DC to block the Trump administration to deport hundreds of Guatemah minors, arguing that they could face negligence or persecution at home.

Migrant lawyers said their customers, who varied from 10 to 17 years old, were at an imminent risk of moving despite certain cases of pending asylum or other legal allegations which had not been entirely verified by the courts.

Lawyers said the laws on trafficking and immigration “prevent children who are not accompanied from being taken under the guise of darkness according to any government.” The minors in question are currently under the care of health and social services and have no legal tutor in the United States, lawyers said.

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A panel is displayed outside the headquarters of the American Department of Health and Social Services in the Hubert Homphrey building on June 2, 2025 in Washington, DC (Images Kevin Carter / Getty)

The legal team of migrants now requests a longer-term injunction to replace the emergency order of Judge Sarknanan during the vacation weekend blocking deportations for two weeks. Sooknanan granted order after learning that more than six dozen minors had been transferred from HHS to immigration and customs custody overnight and placed on a plane for Guatemala.

The case drew attention at the same time because it implies what lawyers say could be around 600 minors at risk of suddenly withdrawn from the country and because Sooknanan, the judge initially presiding the case, imposed an immediate restriction order on the Trump administration to stop the moves.

Sooknanan’s ordinance intervened after a distinct judge of DC gave a controversial oral order in March to return the alleged members of the Gang Tren of Aragua to the United States, which, according to the Trump administration, was ambiguous and non-binding. Seeking to avoid such a dispute, Sooknanan, a named Biden, has left no room for interpretation.

Sooknanan gave quick and unequivocal orders during the Labor Day weekend to overcome minors and return them to the HHS refugee resettlement office. The judge asked for updates to the status of the Ministry of Justice every few hours until the end of the process. The Doj respected its orders.

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Guatemalteque children were transferred to ice custody during the Labor Day weekend. (Getty Images)

The trial was brought by 10 minor Guatemah migrants who lived in the country without tutor or documentation. Their lawyers have described them in court documents as “vulnerable children”, entitled to “improved protection and care”. Lawyers said the Trump administration was blowing up previous laws and the Constitution in order to expel them illegally.

Sooknanan has granted a collective appeal so that the case not only covers the 10 complainants, but all the other minors located in a similar way under the custody of HHS.

After the Labor Day, the case was reassigned to Judge Timothy Kelly, one appointed by Trump. Kelly has set an audience for next week on the new request for migrants for a preliminary injunction.

Migrant lawyers said they had learned media reports that ice planned to expel them “imminently” from Guatemala, where they “can face abuses, negligence, persecution or even torture”.

A woman shows a mobile phone to a Guatemalan migrant expelled from the United States inside a bus after arriving at the base of the Guatemalan Air Force in the city of Guatemala on August 31, 2025. (Johan Order / AFP via Getty Images)

The federal authorities “woke up children overnight and submitted them to the trauma of imminent ablation,” the lawyers wrote in court documents.

“But for the intervention of this court while the plane was seated on the Tarmac in Texas, these children were expected to Guatemala,” they said.

An MJ lawyer told the judge during the last-minute hearings during the weekend that the Guatemalan government had asked for the return of young migrants and that “all these children have their parents or tutors in Guatemala who ask for their return”.

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A spokesperson for the Ministry of Internal Security called the initial temporary prohibition order of the “disgusting” judge, saying that the DHS was simply aimed at reconnecting young migrants with their parents.

“Judge Sparkle (Sooknanan) blocks thefts to * bring together * Guatemah children with their families,” wrote DHS spokesperson McLaughlin. “Now these children must go to shelters. It is disgusting and immoral.”