Guatemala is prepared to receive deported minors, president says

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -Guatemala is ready and willing to receive some 150 unaccompanied minors per week from the United States, President Bernardo Arevalo said on Monday.

A U.S. federal judge on Sunday halted the Trump administration from deporting a group of migrant Guatemalan children already boarded onto planes and potentially hundreds more in government shelters after their lawyers made a pre-dawn emergency appeal.

“We’ve been coordinating with the United States,” Arevalo told journalists, “but the decision to send them, the number, and the pace is one that rests with the American government.”

(Reporting by Sofia Menchu; Writing by Brendan O’Boyle; Editing by Natalia Siniawski)