WASHINGTON >> A federal judge on Sunday issued a restraining order blocking the Trump administration from deporting unaccompanied migrant children in federal custody to Guatemala after lawyers said it would violate U.S. laws and deportations appeared imminent.

The ruling followed a complaint filed in the early morning by the National Immigration Law Center, a pro-immigrant advocacy group, on behalf of 10 children ages 10-17.

Washington, D.C.-based District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan ordered the administration to halt the deportations for 14 days and called for an urgent midday hearing, saying it appeared the children were in the process of being removed from the country. President Donald Trump’s administration struck an agreement with Guatemala that would allow unaccompanied children to be

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