A D.C. District Court judge issued a minute order today declaring that hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan minors should remain in the United States, thwarting a Trump administration effort to deport them back to their native country.

The ruling follows reports on Friday that Trump administration officials were planning to remove over 600 Guatemalan unaccompanied minors from the Office of Refugee Resettlement and send them to Guatemala. In the early hours of Sunday morning, the attorney for 10 of these minors, Hilda Bonilla, filed an emergency complaint, warning the judge that the deportation was imminent.

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