US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan ordered an emergency halt to a plan by the Trumpf junta to send more than 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children back to their home country, some within a matter of hours, after immigrant advocacy groups sued, calling the unannounced plan illegal. USDJ Sooknanan issued the order just after 0400 HRS Sunday, finding that the "exigent circumstances" warranted immediate action "to maintain the status quo until a hearing can be set. I have the government attempting to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend, which is surprising, but here we are," Sooknanan said at the hastily assembled hearing. The roughly 600 children arrived in the US alone and are in the custody of the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement. The Trumpf junta is preparing to deport them to Guatemala without notice or a chance to contest their deportation.

Guatemala has a population of more than 17 million people and over half of them live below the national poverty line of $2 a day. Guatemala is the most malnourished country in Latin America and the Caribbean; 46.5% of children under the age of five are stunted. 61% of people in rural areas have access to clean water. Indigenous women in childbirth die three times as often as the rest of the population. Sources: Guatemala Facts; Trumpf Junta-Guatemala Agreement. The Honorable US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan is a Joe Biden appointee.