The Gateway Pundit first reported this weekend that Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan blocked the deportation of more than 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan minors.
The Trump administration had begun removal flights after advocacy groups sued, and the Biden judge quickly issued an emergency restraining order to stop them.
But there is a new and even more disturbing layer to the story. The government of Guatemala has now formally requested that these children be returned home.
These minors are not “stateless,” nor are they abandoned. All have self-reported that their parents live in Guatemala, and the Guatemalan government is publicly asking for their reunification.
Still, Democrats and their allies in the courts are refusing to let them go.
This is not a question of children being left without guardians. Guatemala has agreed to take responsibility.
The reality is that these children were smuggled into the United States, often at the hands of cartels, and wound up stranded in federal custody.
Now, instead of being sent back to their families, they are trapped in American shelters.
Judge Sooknanan’s order blocks their deportation for at least two weeks, but advocacy groups are already seeking a class-action expansion that could tie up the issue for months or years.
It is hard to overstate how absurd this is. A sovereign government is requesting the return of its children.
The United States had already arranged the flights to send them home. And yet, a Democrat-appointed judge is standing in the way, effectively forcing these minors to remain in limbo.
This problem is not limited to a few hundred children. Under the Biden administration, tens of thousands of minors have crossed the border unaccompanied, encouraged by lax enforcement and the dismantling of Trump-era policies like “Remain in Mexico.”
Many of them have family in their home countries, but the U.S. system, overwhelmed and politicized, keeps them warehoused in taxpayer-funded custody instead of reuniting them with their parents.
Worse, the Department of Health and Human Services has admitted it has lost contact with 85,000 minors placed with sponsors—a disaster of historic proportions.
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Guatemala’s willingness to step in should have been welcomed as relief for a broken system.
Instead, Biden’s judicial picks are making sure it doesn’t happen.
Judge Sooknanan’s order, cheered by activist groups, forces hundreds of children to remain away from their families—all in the name of “due process” arguments that ignore the very real fact that these children already have homes to return to.
Shelters remain overcrowded, cartels profit from smuggling networks, and American taxpayers foot the bill for housing children who should never have been abandoned in the first place.
More importantly, families in Guatemala are waiting for children who are being held against their will by the American court system.
The takeaway is simple: Democrats claim to champion “family reunification,” but their actions show otherwise.
When a foreign government asks for its children back, when parents are ready to receive them, and when the U.S. has the planes fueled and waiting, Biden’s judges are still saying no.
