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A reconstruction of the aborted deportation of dozens of Guatemalan children on Labor Day weekend illuminates the latest clash between the administration’s desire for mass deportations and longstanding legal protections for migrants. A middle-of-the-night call to a judge allowed attorneys to block the flights for two weeks, but the episode has raised questions about how truthful the administration was in its initial accounts. A Guatemalan government report obtained by The Associated Press says that investigators found families for 115 children, nearly all who said they wanted their children to remain in the U.S. or refused to cooperate with investigators. That undercuts the administration’s account.

The Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 Guatemalan children who crossed into the U.S. without their parents. That’s according to a letter that Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon sent Friday to the office responsible for caring for the children in the U.S. Wyden argues that “this move threatens to separate children from their families, lawyers, and support systems, to thrust them back into the very conditions they are seeking refuge from.” Guatemala’s foreign minister says the government has told the U.S. it’s willing to receive hundreds of Guatemalan minors. The move is another step in the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement efforts, even as the treatment of unaccompanied children is one of the most sensitive issues in immigration.