Guatemala says it suggested that we are not -send home -based migrant children home

After aircraft with Guatemaleek children were loaded in the US and was then prevented by the decision of a federal court to stop the removal of the children, the Guatemalekse Government said on 31 August that it was responsible for the recently proposal from the Ministry of the Interior Secretary Kristi Kristi Kristi Nem, Kristi Nem are the Non’s Land.

In a statement published to the social media platform X on the evening of 31 August, the same day as the decision of the judge, the Guatemaleek government indicated that it wanted to prevent the children from staying in hiding places and detention centers and that the coordinated action supports Guatemalan children with their families.

The Guatemalekse Government has plans to identify the needs of each of the Guatemalions children and is planning to include them in social programs in their home country, the government explained. All actions taken with regard to the non -counseled minors have taken into account the human rights of the children and have met the right process, the government claimed.

NPR asked the Guatemalse Government how many children had asked to be sent back from the US and whether all their parents have asked that the children are returning to Guatemala, as an American lawyer indicated in a hearing on 31 August. The Guatemalekse Government did not respond immediately and not directly focused on those questions in its statement.

The statement seems to contain a factual error. The Guatemalekse Government said the idea suggested to send the non -counseled minors back to name while she was in the country in July. But called Guatemala on June 26, after he stopped in Costa Rica, Honduras and Paraguay in a tour through Central America.

During that visit, Take and Guatemaltekse Minister of the Interior Francisco Jimenez Signed agreementsIncluding someone who may allow people who are not originally from Guatemala to look for asylum in Guatemala instead of the US, despite the fact that the US Act allows asylum seekers to stay as they meet legal proceedings that are relevant to their case. Name was also depicted on 26 June and saw people deported from the US in La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City, with the American ambassador in Guatemala Tinbin Bradley.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Name (R) talks to Eo Regional Attaché Guadalupe “Lupita” Serna (C) and the American ambassador in Guatemala Tinbin Bradley as people who have been deported from the United States from the United States Disembark a Repatiation Flightta.

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The Ministry of Interior Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NPR about whether Guatemala had suggested that the non -counseled minors were being returned to Guatemala, while calling the country visited in June.

Some lawyers who represent the Guatemaleek children who disagree with the statement of Guatemala that the process of removing the non -counseled minors has not ignored their rights. In the attempt to send children away without first pursuing their asylum claims, lawyers for the National Immigration Law Center, the law firm that represents some of the Guatemaltie children in the US, believe that the US has violated both the federal laws and the American constitution.

“In the middle of the night during a holiday weekend, the Trump government tore vulnerable, frightened children out of their beds and tried to bring them back to danger in Guatemala,” said Efrén C. Olivares, the vice president of disputes in the National Immigration Law Center.

The American district court issue of a temporarily limiting order of emergency situations on 31 August prevented the government from not removed not -guided Guatemalon minors in the US detention in the coming 14 days. The National Immigration Law Center has sworn the right to continue to defend the Guatemalek children to stay in the US