A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to deport more than 70 Guatemalan children during a late-night operation over the holiday weekend.

The unaccompanied children, aged 13 to 17, were housed at Compass Connections, a facility contracted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in San Antonio, when authorities attempted to suddenly remove them Saturday night.

“The facilities holding these children were given approximately two hours to have all of the Guatemalan children ready to be discharged so that immigration could disappear them to Guatemala in the dead of night, on the middle of a holiday weekend,” said Jonathan Ryan, an immigration attorney representing some of the children.

The children were taken to Harlingen, where planes waited o

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