{"id":2008,"date":"2026-06-25T18:36:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:36:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:36:55","slug":"us-senator-warns-of-administration-plan-to-hastily-remove-over-500-unaccompanied-migrant-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=2008","title":{"rendered":"US Senator warns of administration plan to hastily remove over 500 unaccompanied migrant children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong>Getting your Trinity Audio player ready&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>By VALERIE GONZALEZ and REBECCA SANTANA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 A Democratic U.S. senator warns the Trump administration is getting ready to round up 500 immigrant children in a hasty effort to remove them from the country, bypassing legal protections. It would be their second attempt after a federal court intervened last year in an overnight plan to fly out hundreds of children on Labor Day weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=2006\">Federal judge halts Trump\u2019s election executive order seeking to create a federal voter list<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon wrote in a letter Wednesday to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which oversees the Office of Refugee Resettlement caring for unaccompanied migrant children, that he had \u201ccredible information\u201d that the Trump administration had a list of more than 500 migrant children it was targeting for a fast-track removal process and that the department was racing to act in days. He warned that the administration was abdicating \u201ccore humanitarian and child welfare mandates\u201d and demanded an immediate halt to any plans to remove the children.<\/p>\n<p>Wyden, who is the ranking member and senior Democrat of the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over ORR, did not detail how he came by his information. His office declined to provide further details. ORR falls under the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n<p>An HHS spokesperson denied any such plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new information I obtained leads me to believe that the Department is laying the groundwork for another lawless deportation effort, this time on a greater scale, across more countries of origin,\u201d Wyden wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have been entrusted with the care and safety of the children placed within the ORR network. Proceeding with this plan knowingly endangers their lives and violates your duty to these vulnerable children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wyden also issued an early warning last August ahead of what eventually became a chaotic weekend of efforts by the Trump administration to remove Guatemalan children in its care and send them home.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>HHS spokesperson Emily Hilliard said in \u201cthere are no plans to target these children,\u201d calling Wyden\u2019s claims \u201dirresponsible fearmongering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Trump Administration is working to identify the parents or legal guardians of unaccompanied alien children in our care because ensuring every child is placed with a properly vetted sponsor is our top priority,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Over the Labor Day weekend, dozens of migrant children either staying in government-supervised shelters or with foster families were taken from their homes and bused to airfields in Texas bound for Guatemala. A federal judge woken up in the middle of the night eventually stopped the planes. Lawyers for the children \u2014 many who had fled violence at home to come to the U.S. \u2014 later described how traumatic the middle-of-the-night removal effort was for them.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=2004\">Person in custody after stabbing reported on Pearl Street pedestrian mall in Boulder<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The administration insisted it was reuniting the Guatemalan children \u2014 at the Central American nation\u2019s request \u2014 with parents or guardians who sought their return. Lawyers for at least some of the children said that wasn\u2019t true and argued that in any event, authorities still would have to follow a legal process that they did not.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Migrant children traveling alone are usually entrusted to U.S. government care, and there are various legal protections designed to protect them once they\u2019re in the U.S. and navigating the immigration system.<\/p>\n<p>The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 is one of the key pieces of legislation designed to protect them. With some limited exceptions, it requires that children be placed in the \u201cleast restrictive setting possible,\u201d which generally means that they can be released to a sponsor such as a relative in the U.S. while their immigration proceedings play out.<\/p>\n<p>The children can apply for a specially protected status if they can\u2019t return to their home country because of abuse or neglect and they can also apply for asylum.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has made it increasingly difficult for those children to be released to sponsors though. The administration says that they are doing due diligence to make sure that sponsors are thoroughly vetted and that in the past, children were released into dangerous situations.<\/p>\n<p>But advocates say that the result has been children lingering for months in government shelters.<\/p>\n<p>This time, Wyden said the children at risk of being removed come from various countries, potentially including Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Afghanistan, and have been in U.S. custody \u2014 mainly in foster care \u2014 for at least 180 days. He said they were described as not having any \u201cviable sponsor\u201d who could come forward and take care of them in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Not having an identified sponsor could mean the child\u2019s parents are in their home countries, are deceased or are too afraid to claim their children after ICE started arresting some parents who are not in the country legally during their reunification efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=2002\">Supreme Court clears way for Trump administration to revive restrictive policy for asylum seekers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. senator is warning of a Trump administration plan to remove over 500 children from the country, bypassing legal protections, in a letter sent to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. 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