The federal judge interrupts the expulsion of hundreds of Guatemah children

On Thursday, a federal judge prevented the Trump administration from deporting certain Guatemah minors in their country of origin after the government has taken into account that he intended to bring young people together with their parents.

Judge Timothy Kelly, who issued the ordinance, reported his skepticism of the moves during a hearing last week, noting the declarations of the minors who said they were fearing to face violence or negligence if they had returned to Guatemala.

“It goes without saying that it makes this irreparable harm,” said Kelly about their possible moves.

Kelly, a person appointed by Trump, also raised a report from the prosecutor’s office general of the Attorney General, which the applicants submitted to the court. The report was compiled in response to the health and social refugee resettlement office by informing the Guatemalan government that the government planned to return more than 600 minors to Guatemala. No parents had asked for the return of their children, according to the report. MJ lawyer Sarah Welch replied at the hearing that she had no evidence to contradict the report.

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“I have nothing specific that I can refer to the report of the Guatemalan AG report,” said Welch, although she also said that some children reported that they were interested in returning home.

The judge’s order was born from a trial brought against the Trump administration after the federal authorities awakened 70 minors, aged 10 to 17, in the middle of the night during the web weekend when they were in police custody and transferred them to a plane for Guatemala.

The lawyers of minors obtained an emergency ban from judge Sparkle Sooknanan who prevented their imminent expulsion. The order of Kelly effectively extends this order indefinitely.

The Trump administration could appeal the decision. Fox News Digital contacted the Ministry of Internal Security, which is appointed in the trial, to comment.

The lawyers of minors argued that their customers presented an imminent risk of moving despite certain cases of pending asylum or other legal allegations which had not been entirely examined by the courts.

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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)

Sooknanan initially discussed the trial during the Labor Day weekend, but Kelly has since resumed the case.

Trump administration officials, including a spokesperson for the Ministry of Homeland Security, had excrupted Sooknanan when she issued her order, saying that the judge prevented the children from returning to their parents.

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

The minors’ lawyers have argued in court documents according to which 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.