A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has blocked the Trump administration from immediately deporting a group of at least 76 unaccompanied Guatemalan migrant children who were living in government custody. Judge Timothy J. Kelly, who is a Trump appointee, rejected claims by DHS that the children were being deported to be reunited with their parents, who had asked for their return to Guatemala. In his ruling, Kelly said the administration’s argument “crumbled like a house of cards” as “there is no evidence before the Court that the parents of these children sought their return.” Trump officials had attempted to secretly deport the children in the middle of the night over Labor Day weekend.