WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge extended a block on a Trump administration attempt to deport Guatemalan unaccompanied children with active immigration cases, keeping the policy frozen until Tuesday to provide more time to consider the dispute.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, based in Washington, D.C., issued the ruling after a September 10 hearing where he grilled a Justice Department attorney over a colleague’s inaccurate statement that all of the children’s parents had requested their return to Guatemala.

The lawsuit stems from an attempt by President Donald Trump’s administration to suddenly deport 76 unaccompanied Guatemalan minors on August 31, waking the children in the predawn hours over a holiday weekend and hustling them onto planes only to be blocked by a judge’s

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