Guatemala government says it asked for migrant children back : NPR

The interior security secretary, Kristi Noem, and the Guatemalan Minister of Governance Francisco Jimenez shakes hands after having signed a memorandum of understanding on a joint security program agreement at the Palacio Nacional of Cultura on June 26 in Guatemala City, in Guatemala.

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After planes with Guatemalteque children were charged in the United States and then prevented from taking off by the decision of a federal judge from temporarily arrested the referral of children, the Guatemalan government declared on August 31 that he was responsible for the recently projection of the interior security Kristi Noem.

In a statement published on the social media platform X on the evening of August 31, the same day as the judge’s decision, the Guatemalan government indicated that it wanted to prevent children from staying in shelters and detention centers and that it supports coordinated measures to bring together Guatemalens children with their families.

The Guatemalan government plans to identify the needs of each Guatemah children and intends to include them in social programs in their country of origin, the government said. All the measures that have been taken with regard to unaccompanied minors have taken into account the human rights of children and have respected regular procedure, according to the government.

The NPR asked the Guatemalan government how many children he had asked to have returned from the United States, and if all their parents asked that the children returned to Guatemala, as an American lawyer said at a hearing on August 31. The Guatemalan government did not immediately answer and did not answer these questions directly in its declaration.

The instruction seems to contain a factual error. The Guatemalan government said it suggested the idea of ​​sending the unaccompanied minors to Noem when it was in the country in July. But Noem visited Guatemala on June 26, after making stops at Costa Rica, Honduras and Paraguay in a tour in Central America.

During this visit, the Minister of the Interior of the Noem and Guatemalan, Francisco Jimenez, signed agreements, including one to potentially allow people who were not from Guatemala to ask Guatemala asylum instead of the United States, despite the fact that US law authorizes asylum seekers to stay when they are content with their case. Noem was also represented on June 26, watching people expelled from the United States at Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City, with the American ambassador to Guatemala Tobin Bradley.

The interior security secretary, Kristi Noem (R), speaks to the regional attaché of Ero Guadalupe “Lupita” Serna (C) and the American ambassador to Guatemala Tobin Bradley while people expelled from the United States to land a repatriation flight while Noem is sentenced to house security operations.

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The Ministry of Internal Security did not immediately respond to a request for NPR comments as to whether Guatemala had suggested that unaccompanied minors have returned to Guatemala while Noem visited the country in June.

Certain lawyers representing Guatemalteque children who should be expelled in disagreement with the Guatemala Declaration that the process aimed at suppressing unaccompanied minors has not ignored their rights. In the attempt to send the children back without allowing them to finish first prosecution their asylum complaints, lawyers for the National Immigration Law Center, the law firm representing some of the Guatemah children in the United States, believe that the United States has violated both federal laws and the American constitution.

“In the night death during a holiday weekend, the Trump administration has torn the vulnerable and frightened children from their bed and tried to return them in danger to Guatemala,” Efrén C. Olivares, Vice-President of the National Immigration Law Center said.

The publication of the American district court of a temporary emergency prohibition order on August 31 prevented the government from withdrawing the unaccompanied Guatemah minors in police custody for the next 14 days. National Immigration Law Center has promised to continue to defend the law of Guatemah children to stay in the United States