Announcement comes a day after a US federal judge halted the deportation of 10 unaccompanied Guatemalan minors
Guatemala is ready and willing to receive about 150 unaccompanied children of all ages each week from the United States, the country’s president has said, a day after a US federal judge halted the deportation of 10 Guatemalan children.
Those children had already boarded a plane when a court responded to an emergency appeal on Sunday. They were later returned to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
On Monday, Guatemala’s president, Bernardo Arévalo, told journalists that his government had been coordinating with the US to receive the unaccompanied minors.
“But the decision to send them, the number, and the pace is one that rests with the American government, and as you can see, there’s currently a legal dispute,” he said.
