Immigrant children recalled getting awakened in the middle of the night and frantically informed of a possible deportation in a court filing contesting the Trump administration’s attempts to remove them this past weekend.
“I woke up very scared, and I felt like I lost my breath for a second because they had never woken us up in the middle of the night before,” one child said in the Wednesday filing.
The child said they hadn’t had the chance to brush their teeth or wash their face before they were put on a bus to the airport. Another child vomited out of fear, according to the filing. A third child was crying and distraught about the possibility of returning to Guatemala, from which she had previously immigrated.
The filing features harrowing accounts of children being abruptly jostled awake between the hours of 2 to 4 a.m. and yanked from their beds, as well as testimony which suggests that they — and their families — aren’t trying to reunite in Guatemala as the Trump administration has previously alleged.
A DHS spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
