(Washington) US justice has suspended the expulsion of more than 600 guatemalteque minors on Sunday, a new setback for President Donald Trump and his draconian policy against immigration.
These hundreds of children living in the United States were likely to be sent back to their country in the words of an agreement sealed between the United States and Guatemala, said a judicial document from the Federal Tribunal of the Capital Washington.
But in its 25 -page decision, the judge decided to suspend “for 14 days the transfer, repatriation, move and transport” of these young people represented by an association for the defense of immigrants, National Immigration Law Center (NILC), in a collective complaint in civilian against the Minister for Internal Security Kristi Noem.
The NGO has accused the Trump administration, which has implemented its program against immigration and crime for seven months, of having “torn from their beds vulnerable and frightened children and sought to put them in danger” by returning them to their native country from Central America.
“We are comforted that the Court prevented an injustice against hundreds of children to whom it would have been inflicted irreparable suffering,” an NILC leader, Efren Olivares, in a statement.
According to the legal action of the association, the Guatemahs children risk, in the event of expulsion, “to be exposed to a number of dangers by returning to a country where they fear being persecuted”.
The decision of the Washington Federal Court, even if it is provisional and subject to appeal, is one more judicial setback for executive power and its draconian policy against illegal, even legal immigration.
Friday evening, another federal judge blocked the “accelerated expulsion” procedure of unrelated foreigners recently arrested at the border with Mexico.
This procedure, without appearance before a court, is contrary to a constitutional provision according to which “no one will be expelled from the United States without possibility, at some point, to be heard”.
