The Gateway Pundit first reported this weekend that Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan blocked the deportation of more than 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan minors.
The Trump administration had begun removal flights after advocacy groups sued, and the Biden judge quickly issued an emergency restraining order to stop them.
But there is a new and even more disturbing layer to the story. The government of Guatemala has now formally requested that these children be returned home.
These minors are not “stateless,” nor are they abandoned. All have self-reported that their parents live in Guatemala, and the Guatemalan government is publicly asking for their reunification.
Still, Democrats and their allies in the courts are refusing to let them go.
This is not a question of children being left without guardians. Guatemala has agreed to take responsibility.
The reality is that these children were smuggled into the United States, often at the hands of cartels, and wound up stranded in federal custody.
Now, instead of being sent back to their families, they are trapped in American shelters.
Judge Sooknanan’s order blocks their deportation for at least two weeks, but advocacy groups are already seeking a class-action expansion that could tie up the issue for months or years.
It is hard to overstate how absurd this is. A sovereign government is requesting the return of its children.
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