Approximately 1,000 Central American children, including at least 40 in California, are at risk of deportation before completing immigration court proceedings. The government removed 76 Guatemalan children from shelters over Labor Day weekend and placed them on a plane to Guatemala, but a federal judge blocked the flight. Attorneys report the government is expanding removal efforts to include hundreds more children from Honduras and El Salvador, many of whom fear violence and abuse if returned to their home countries.