New Testimony Shines a Light on Trump Admin’s Effort to Deport Guatemalan Minors

A little girl at a children’s shelter in McAllen, Texas, “was so scared that she vomited.”

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New testimony revealed in federal court highlights a traumatic incident involving immigrant children over the weekend, in which the federal government woke up detained kids in the middle of the night in an attempt to quickly deport them to Guatemala.

Their experience mirrored another covert operation earlier this year, in which Trump administration officials rushed dozens of men to a prison in El Salvador.

A little girl at a children’s shelter in McAllen, Texas, “was so scared that she vomited and asked to speak with a clinician.”