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A judge on Saturday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from sending underage migrants to adult detention centers once they turn 18.
U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras said the new policy violates an order he issued in 2021 that instructed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to send any migrant to an ICE detention center after they turn 18.
Underage migrants aren’t held in ICE detention centers. They’re held in centers run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Fox News Digital has reached out to ICE for comment.
CONSERVATIVES RALLY AROUND APPLE REMOVING ICE-TRACKING APPS TO PROTECT LAW ENFORCEMENT
U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras said the new policy violates an order he issued in 2021 that directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to send any migrant to an ICE detention center after they turn 18. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
The Trump administration is now offering teen migrants a $2,500 stipend to leave the United States voluntarily, according to several reports citing a letter sent Friday by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement to shelters housing migrant children.
Several immigration rights groups had asked Contreras to intervene in the filing made just after midnight Saturday morning.
Last month, another judge blocked the Trump administration from deporting certain Guatemalan minors to their home country after the government walked back claims that it intended to reunite the youths with their parents.
Judge Timothy Kelly, who issued the order, said the Trump administration could not show that any parents wanted their children back.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OFFERS TEEN MIGRANTS $2,500 TO LEAVE US VOLUNTARILY: REPORTS
Immigrants line up in the dining hall at a new U.S. government holding center for migrant children in Carrizo Springs, Texas, July 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
“That explanation crumbled…
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