The Legal Aid Society filed a lawsuit Monday that would require the Trump administration to give 48-hour notice to undocumented children in New York before they are transferred to another immigrant detention facility. The notice would give those children the opportunity to consult with lawyers and their parents to explore asylum and other forms of relief, the Legal Aid Society said. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of two undocumented children who the Legal Aid Society said were scheduled to be transferred immediately out of New York to a detention center in Texas that is not licensed to care for children. U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the Southern District of New York granted a temporary restraining order in the case late Monday evening that blocked the federal government from transferring either of Legal Aid's clients until Thursday morning at the earliest. The case, going forward, is before U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District. The lawsuit, at this point, only seeks notice for children held in New York, but Legal Aid said it would welcome replication in other states. “The goal is to ensure that none of the separated children held in NY are subject to coercive relocation and/or repatriation, that the children are instead able to make informed decisions about their cases after having an opportunity to speak with their parents, and after knowing what the government's reunification plan is,” said Hasan Shafiqullah, attorney-in-charge of the immigration law unit at the Legal Aid Society. The lawsuit follows the story of two children separated from their parents after traveling to the United States from Honduras and Guatemala. One plaintiff, a 12-year-old boy from the former country, is living at Abbott House in New York. His mother is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at an undisclosed location, according to the lawsuit. The child, according to the lawsuit, has said he only wants to be reunited with his mother if she remains in the United States. If she is sent back to Honduras, the child said he would rather live with a cousin who already resides in the United States than go back to his home country. The other plaintiff is a 13-year-old girl from Guatemala who was separated from her father at the border in June. Her father has not seen a judge since then and has only spoken to his daughter twice. He only speaks Q'eqchi, a native language in Central America, which has made translation difficult. Her daughter is not sure whether she wants to be reunified with her father because she has not been told anything about the reunification process or where she would be sent, according to the complaint. Legal Aid and their clients argued in the lawsuit that moving the children without notice violates their right to due process, ignores their requests for asylum, and violates the Flores Agreement. Part of that agreement “sets forth a minor's right to challenge a determination to place the minor in a particular facility when in government custody,” according to the lawsuit. If Furman sides with the children in the lawsuit, each child separated from their parents and placed in New York would have the same protections of notice before being transferred out of the state to another facility. The children would be given 48 hours before they are moved, during which they can consult with an attorney or their parents on a plan for either reunification, asylum or other relief. The government would also have to provide the child with contact information for their parents. Catholic Charities and other providers who specialize in handling immigration cases for children invited the Legal Aid Society to represent the separated children. A spokeswoman for ICE declined to comment on the lawsuit. The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, which oversees the Office of Refugee Resettlement, declined to comment on pending litigation.