Dozens of Guatemalan migrant children in the U.S. are now in a state of limbo after a federal district court judge temporarily blocked their deportation. Immigration authorities in Texas had placed 76 minors onto three planes around 1:00 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 31, when the judge issued the restraining order.

Attorneys with the National Immigration Law Center had filed an emergency request to stop the planes from taking off. The lawyers argued that returning the children to Guatemala would put them at grave risk of abuse or persecution, and that their hasty removal was a violation of their due process rights in the U.S. The case, which was originally handled by a Biden-appointed judge, who was on-call over the weekend, has now been reassigned to a Trump-appointed judge.

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