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The Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Recruitment Fair (ICE) attracted applicants to Arlington, Texas, saying it hopes to hire 1,000 new executives over two days.
On August 31, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from deporting 10 unaccompanied immigrant Guatemalan children, putting potentially hundreds of them under federal custody.
For 14 days after the National Immigration Law Center filed an emergency request, Judge Sparkle L. Souknanan issued a temporary restraining order to stop the Trump administration from banishing children aged 10-17.
Immigrant children arriving in the United States without a parent or guardian are classified as unaccompanied minors and sent to shelters managed by the Refugee Resettlement Office and are outlined in federal law until they can be placed with family and foster homes.
Efren C. Olivares, an attorney for the National Center for Immigration Law, welcomed the judge’s decision.
“During the late night on a holiday weekend, the Trump administration tore vulnerable and scared children out of bed and attempted to bring them back to danger in Guatemala,” Olivares said in a statement. “We have the courts in mind that prevented this injustice from occurring before hundreds of children commit irreparable harm.”
The lawsuit alleges that the administration’s plan to expel children violates protections under the federal law, passed in 2008, under the Re-authorization Act on Protection of Trafficking Victims. The lawsuit also said the government was “mischievously planning” them for a flight to Guatemala.
According to the lawsuit, one of the children, the plaintiff, identified as LGML, is a 10-year-old Guatemalan child “speaks rare languages indigenous peoples.” She was detained in Urban Strategy, a child shelter in San Benito, Texas.
“Her mother has passed away and she suffered from abuse and neglect from other caregivers,” the lawsuit alleges.
The lawyer said he has around 600 children who could be at risk of deportation.
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security, Stephen Miller, and President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown, denounced Souknanan’s decision.
“Judge Biden effectively lures these immigrant children and refuses to return to their parents in their home countries,” Miller said on social media.
In March, the Trump administration cancelled a $200 million legal representation contract for 26,000 children who crossed the US border as unaccompanied minors.
Contribution: Reuters
