Judge blocks Trump administration from sending migrant teens to adult detention

On Saturday, a judge temporarily prevented the Trump administration from sending minor migrants to adult detention centers once aware of 18 years.

US District Judge Rudolph Conneras said the new policy violated an order he made in 2021 which asked us for American immigration and customs not to send a migrant to an ICE detention center after being 18 years old.

Minor migrants are not held in ice detention centers. They are detained in centers led by the United States Ministry of Health and Social Services.

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US District Judge Rudolph Conneras said the new policy violated an order he made in 2021 which ordered the US immigration and customs forces not to send a migrant to an ICE detention center after being 18 years old. (AP photo / Erin Hooley)

The Trump administration now offers migrant adolescents an allocation of $ 2,500 to voluntarily leave the United States, according to several reports citing a letter sent on Friday by the Ministry of Health and Social Services (HHS) Resettlement Bureau for shelters to shelter migrant children.

Several defense of immigration rights had asked Contreras to intervene in the file carried out just after midnight on Saturday morning.

Last month, another judge prevented Trump’s administration from deporting certain Guatemah minors in their country of origin after the government has given into account that he intended to bring young people together with their parents.

Judge Timothy Kelly, who issued the order, said the Trump administration could not show that parents wanted their children to come back.

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Immigrants queue in the dining room in a new US government detention center for migrant children in Carrizo Springs, Texas, July 9, 2019. (AP photo / Eric gay, file)

“This explanation collapsed as a card by a week later,” wrote Kelly in his order. “There is no evidence in court that the parents of these children asked for their return.”

Michelle Lapointe, lawyer for American Immigration Council, one of the organizations involved in the file, told the Associated Press: “All these elements are the same general policy to force young immigrants to abandon their right to request protection in the United States.”

In the United States, migrant children are often released as a foster family or family members as long as it is not considered a risk of theft or a danger.

A federal agent is in a vehicle outside an American immigration and customs application of customs on September 24, 2025, in BroadView, Ill. (AP photo / Erin Hooley)

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The lawyers of some of the migrants said they had taught that the ice said to the shelters that the children with 18 years old would be taken to ice detention centers, even if they already had plans to be released and that they could only be released by case for “urgent humanitarian reasons” or “a significant public advantage”.

Ashley Oliver and Michael Dorgan from Fox News and the Associated Press contributed to this report.