It Looks As If the Trump Administration Tried to Pull a Fast One on the Guatemalan Government. And LIED to the Court, Too..

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Exclusive: Guatemalan document undercuts U.S. claims on child deportations

Many family members of unaccompanied Guatemalan migrant children who are part of a group the Trump administration attempted to deport over the weekend did not want their children returned to Guatemala, according to an internal Guatemalan government report that contradicts assertions made by U.S...

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MEXICO CITY, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Many family members of unaccompanied Guatemalan migrant children who are part of a group the Trump administration attempted to deport over the weekend did not want their children returned to Guatemala, according to an internal Guatemalan government report that contradicts assertions made by U.S. officials.

The report, produced by a Guatemalan attorney general's office and reviewed by Reuters, said Guatemalan authorities had contacted the families of 115 minors who had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without a parent or guardian. Of those, 59 families expressed anger about the possibility of their children being returned to Guatemala, with some even describing it as intimidation, the document said.

Contents of the report have not been previously reported and offer the most comprehensive insight so far into the resistance of many family members to the children being deported. Some of those concerns were backed up by court filings published on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump's effort to deport unaccompanied migrant children aged 10-17 over the weekend triggered an immediate legal challenge. In an emergency court hearing on Sunday, a Justice Department attorney said the parents wanted their children to be deported, but a lawyer for the children rejected that assertion.

Guatemala initially agreed with U.S. authorities that it would receive migrants nearing the age of 18 whose parents were generally not in the United States and who would be transferred to adult detention, according to the report.

On July 11, the U.S. provided Guatemala with a list of minors in Health and Human Services custody who were about to turn 18, in accordance with the original plan to facilitate their return to Guatemala before their birthdays. But some time after that, the U.S. sent Guatemala a much broader list of 609 children ages 14-17.

One person with knowledge of Guatemalan authorities' thinking said the government was taken aback by how quickly the Trump administration had broadened the scope of the plan. The person said that it seemed to go overnight from returning 17-year-olds to deporting children as young as 10....

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So, the trump Administration lied to Guatemala.

And the trump Administration seems to have lied to the US court, too.

 

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If anyone lied to the US courts they need to be charged with perjury and held accountable. Like with other crimes, the courts need to set an example of the punishments that await those that lie to them.

 

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If anyone lied to the US courts they need to be charged with perjury and held accountable. Like with other crimes, the courts need to set an example of the punishments that await those that lie to them.

Lying to the Guatemalan Government, lying to a United States court of law....the flagrant dishonesty of this sleazy administration is breathtaking.

We're at the point that the assumption of truth cannot, in most cases, be extended to individuals and agencies in the trump/Republican administration.