DEREK ACHONG

On­ly three of the group of 26 Venezue­lan mi­grant chil­dren and their par­ents, who re­turned to Trinidad af­ter be­ing de­port­ed on Sun­day, have been put in State quar­an­tine pur­suant to a court or­der grant­ed, last night.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that while Jus­tice Ava­son Quin­lan-Williams or­dered that the en­tire group be placed in quar­an­tine for 14 days and re­leased pend­ing the de­ter­mi­na­tion of their le­gal chal­lenge against their de­por­ta­tion, on­ly a five-year-old boy, his sis­ter and his moth­er were trans­ferred from the Erin Po­lice Sta­tion to the mi­grant de­ten­tion cen­tre at the Ch­aguara­mas He­li­port, this morn­ing.

The fam­i­ly's cir­cum­stances were di­rect­ly high­light­ed by the group's lawyers in the case be­fore Quin­lan-Williams.

The le­gal team are said to be cur­rent­ly mak­ing en­quiries as to why of­fi­cials chose to on­ly place that fam­i­ly in quar­an­tine and leave the rest de­tained at the po­lice sta­tion, when Quin­lan-Williams' or­ders di­rect­ed that all be trans­ferred by 6 am to­day. 

Un­der the or­der, Quin­lan-Williams al­so grant­ed an in­junc­tion block­ing an­oth­er at­tempt to have them repa­tri­at­ed pend­ing the out­come of their case.

The case is sched­uled to come up for vir­tu­al hear­ing at 7 pm.