Fearing the Trump administration is aiming to repeat an aborted effort to remove dozens of Guatemalan children from the United States, lawyers and shelter workers across the country are scrambling to prevent the government from deporting Honduran children in their custody.
Legal aid groups believe federal immigration authorities, with the Honduran government’s support, are preparing to remove children from Honduras who arrived in the United States without a parent or guardian and are now in the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.