We're back. The judge asks if Ensign has an update for her. Ensign: I have confirmed that the plan is to deplane the children and to return them to the custody of Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Sooknanan asks him to file status report when that's complete
Does this mean that these children had active asylum cases before this action?
Sooknanan then says that she had an opportunity during the break to read some of the declarations filed by the named plaintiffs. She wants to read from them because they underscore the conflicting information she's received from the government about the children they want to remove.
Conflicting information
So his health is still in question,
The government has argued that the children are simply being reunited with their parents. But Sooknanan reads from a series of declarations that seem inconsistent with that claim.
This is a classic example of what happens when conservative bad faith bullshit hits the buzzsaw of real life courts and law. Put your kitchen sink away and pick an actual claim of what you say happened and tell it to the judge and prove it
In one, the child says that her parents [in Guatemala] recently received a strange call from someone with the US government, telling them that he or she would be deported with a larger group of people. "Since my parents told me this news, I feel terrible," the declarant says.
Is the U.S. a human trafficking facilitator? Is that what's going on? This will stain us all Not just Trumpers.
People will genuinely wonder why we didn't drop everything we're doing to stop this. They will correctly wonder if we secretly support it, and ask whether distinguishing between support and tolerance matters in the end. Insane.
Sooknanan: Every one of these 10 children who are named plaintiffs speak about being afraid of going back to Guatemala. She reads a series of quotes in which the children express being afraid of return because they experienced neglect or abuse from one or both of their parents.
Is this not them? bsky.app/profile/jjin...
wow, the government is just straight up lying to the judge.
That seems to be a pattern, but not proven here yet
To be clear: we have no way of knowing who is on these jets right now. I’m just reporting that these are the 3 planes that I see under ICE Air contract flying to Central America today. There’s also a 767 that has been sitting on the tarmac in South Texas for a couple days now, watching that one 👀
I don't want to post misinfo, so let me know if I should delete The timing seems odd, but I know there are a *lot* of these flights (because I follow your account. Thanks)
I appreciate all that you do. Today all we can do is hope that the US is telling the truth via Drew Ensign. And that statement will never fill me with anything I could describe as a “warm fuzzy feeling” but that’s where we are. Again.
Oh FFS - seriously?
Not trying to spread misinfo. Just doesn't look good though that this is happening while the court is in session
It would not shock me if the administration ignored court orders (again)
Holy moley, I hope not!
bsky.app/profile/jjin...
there’s probably other uncontested deportation flights to guatemala going on now, safest assumption is probably that’s what these are
Why is the US government permitted to commit perjury over and over again without consequences?
Weasl words . . .
Anna, thank you for covering this.
Will the Gov claim they were coached to say this? Thanks, Anna.
When she's done reading select quotes from the plaintiff's declarations, Judge Sooknanan sums it up as follows: "And so this doesn't quite line up with what I'm hearing from the government.
Would DOJ stretch truth?
My God! We live in such a world that ten year olds are having to seek counsel and go to law in order to have what are essentially child protection matters fairly processed. What manner of creature in the government wants to conduct a fast clandestine deportation of children at risk?
Ask Stephen Miller.
Hmm .. I am not sure my parents brought me up to talk to that sort of creature. As a safety precaution I might insist on meeting on sacred ground, with a font of Holy Water, and a mirror as a backup test.
Proving yet again that this Administration's immigration roundup was never about combating crime, but about abject cruelty and committing crimes against humanity.
Jesus…
Judge Sooknanan is a Real American Shero!💚🔥💚
She's wise to doubt the truthfulness of Trump's DOJ and the Trumpian defendants.
Judge Sooknanan to Ensign: "This is why we have process. This is why we have courts." Then she says that she also took the opportunity to look at the provision that Ensign cited. "I'm pretty skeptical that it gives the government the authority to do what you are claiming it does," she says.
Judge Sooknanan: For unaccompanied minors in particular, there are special procedural protections under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act...that's because this population is incredibly vulnerable. I don't see anything in what you're citing that would override those protections.
Judge Sooknanan says that she will wait to see Ensign's brief but at this point she's not seeing anything that would displace the statutory protections she just mentioned. Further, she says, I know it's extraordinary to enter a TRO on an ex parte basis. But I felt the situation was imminent...
Good for her.
Imminence pervades lawless power
I'll say again, if this operation were legit the government would announce it in advance. Press would be encouraged to film happy children boarding planes to see their parents. It would not be done by weekend secret sneak flights. We see no pics because the kids are shackled.
And how did the children get separated from their parents to start with ? When it comes to this administration and unification of children I don’t believe a single word. They can’t be trusted. They couldn’t reunite the ones they separated during the sessions era
Tots norm for the G to schedule child deportation flights at crack o dawn Labor Day Sunday, no OT costs, etc etc
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
Repubcans are brave when attacking, abusing and murdering children.
It was no “accident” that it was the wee hours; they likely thought no way would you pick up.
People who do things in the wee hours of the morning may be trying to hide something. IMHO.
Russian-style evil
You expect the Administration (actually the last several) to care about deporting kids? They won't lift a finger to protect kids from mass shooting, you think deporting is a high bar.
Trying to remove children in the middle of the night...If they thought it was a legal act, they'd do it in broad daylight. But they're clearly trying to get away with something. Kind of like ICE wearing masks and not showing ID. My question is, Why aren't they charged?
They're so warped that if they aren't doing the slimiest, most dishonest thing possible, they feel like they are failing their cult leader
Sad
Judge blocks deportation of unaccompanied migrant minors to Guatamala. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Judge Sooknanan: And I tried to reach the government. I have been up since then..and didn't reach anyone from the government until later this morning. And the imminence that the plaintiff claimed proved true, because, in fact, those planes *were* loaded. One actually took off and was returned.
Sneaky MFERs 😡
And this is one case where someone was able to get the matter before a judge in the middle of the night. How many were not?
As someone who sponsored a child in Guatemala for years (through Compassion) I am horrified that anyone could even consider sending unaccompanied minors there without a solid plan for their care.
Leave these poor children ALONE!! JFC!!!
It’s really too bad that these Trump administration lawyers and officials don’t get slapped with contempt. They’ve tried to sneakily evade court orders before and then lie about it. If and when the rule of law applies once again, these people need to be prosecuted.
this administration is truly truly horrible...horrific things happening.
DHS / DOJ --- classy, dudes, learning from Hitler memos?
😡😳😱🆘
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Thank goodness for the judge
Thank you so much for being fully invested in these kids. And the Constitution and rule of law. And human rights. You aren’t just fighting the good fight, you’re fighting the best possible fight.
These people, under Trump, are the literal devil.
I honestly have no idea how you get a hold of a federal judge at 2 in the morning, but awfully glad these guys did. Ensign is a ghoul.
The courts need to order all actions of removal may not begin before 8 am or after 5 pm. This middle of the night, under cover of darkness while the rest of America is asleep. Had has got to stop. This is the Gestapo disappearing people.
They truly are ghouls, straight from the crypt.
Thank you, Anna!
So the US government is in the child trafficking business now. Given the current president, it doesn’t come as a surprise
Gosh, it sounds like the Judge doesn’t trust the government one bit. Welcome to the club!
Trafficking children. You don't say.
They are such mother fuckers They need to be punished
And they have the audacity to call themselves "Christians."
I wonder if they have successfully executed this stunt before. I am too ashamed to call myself American.
Stephen Miller will have a lot to answer for in this world or the next.
They were trying to do it in the dark of night so they wouldn’t be discovered.
Trump supports subterfuge
Fucking criminals.
So wonderful she's such a dedicated judge. 💖
WTF is wrong with these people ??
Damn!!!
Of course they did. They have one seating only and it’s always on “sadistic”.
And not for the first time she was very very much NOT WRONG
Wow. Ex Parte with this judge.... www.dcd.uscourts.gov/content/dist...
Sooknanan "clerked for the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor."
Call these MFERs OUT💥💥💥
They need fodder for their kiddie porn
i'd say Ensign should be happy working from a holding cell for the next five days.
Aw we s we w ewssdswsxsgxs
I hope this isn't those children. Anyone know how to find out?
bsky.app/profile/jjin...
Thank you. I am wondering if they could be other individuals and not these children. I don't trust our govt any longer. I will start following the account you pointed to. Thank you 👍🏻
Sickening. Those poor children. What is wrong with the Trump administration? Maybe Melania should write a letter to her husband? Wtf?!
What are the realistic odds that Judge Sooknanan will levy a charge of contempt on the DOJ’s counsel for lying to the Court?
OMG this admin is beyond horrible to do this to children. They’re monsters. Evil to the core.
It's not the party of family values. It's the party of family abuse.
"This doesn't quite line up" is a polite way to say "You are lying." As the conflicting depositions were entered under oath, should they turn out to be false*, will those who entered them be charged with perjury or at least held in contempt? (Spoiler:No.) *Should the sun rise in the East.
Orange is the new black www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-HY...
That’s easy to resolve. The government is lying.
Thank you for doing this.
Gov’t engages in child trafficking.
The octogenarian toddler in the Oval Office is playing to his strengths . . . Thiry years of partnership with Epstein and Maxwell is a solid basis for his "expertise."
I doubt he has any idea as to what’s going on here. Stephen Miller has been given free rein over “immigration policy”. Trump stays busy by cheating at golf.
The human trafficking mob is happy though. Every county in Oklahoma is happy Wake up 26 is coming vote them all out
Am I crazy or does this sound nothing like “parents are requesting to have their children returned”?
It’s terrible how a benign agency such as DHS, should have their actions and motivations so misunderstood, twisted, traduced, and embroidered upon -and that’s just by the DOJ. “It is so unfair - every one treats us as if we shoot puppies”
🤣🤣🤣
This is so fucking gross. 🤬🤬🤬
Many thanks for your reporting. Knowing that this is a gov't one cannot trust to tell the time tells me all I need. They make a mockery of democracy.
Trump is deporting children. Impeach. @aclu.org @acluwa.bsky.social @eliaslawgroup.bsky.social @immigrantjustice.bsky.social @legaldefensefund.bsky.social @democracydocket.com @schiff.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov @nadler.house.gov @aoc.bsky.social @petebuttigieg.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov
We can't build the gallows fast enough for these people
Has America lost all sense of f'ing decency? We deserve to be a pariah nation if this evilness continues. Just heartsick as I look at the 10 y/o grandchild sitting across the table from me.
@marisakabas.bsky.social there’s a big, big story here. Someone in the government is allegedly coercing people to make false declarations in court to violate laws meant to stop child trafficking.
Oh, I bet.
Receipts time!!!
Conflicting information? The government is a de facto authoritarian state that lies, cheats and steals as a matter of policy. It is not to be trusted with the most simplistic representation. It is to be held accountable from A-to-Z with utmost scrutiny. It must be resoundingly defeated.
Can't they be sanctioned for lying in these statements?
A Judge with some 🏀🏀👍
My refresh button is breaking
Sounds like it is going to be a scorcher.
Does anyone know where these planes are about to take off from? Florida? TX?
Removing children is something a certain someone did back in the 1930's... seems history repeats. And someone has been reading the wrong books, learning history incorrectly. www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
Conflicts with the lies the DOJ is telling about them.
Just assume the DOJ is committing perjury. It simplifies the judicial process.
Who's going to jail for loading them on the plane ?????????
The importance of Biden's appointment of, and the Senate's confirmation of (albeit by the slimmest of margins), federal judges cannot be overstated.
Thank you for this reporting
Pause and recognize that this implies that the Felon47 Administration is "resettling" Christian children to Guatemala. Where is the Talibangelical outrage on this? Also, "resettling" was to help these kids settle in America and NOT be human-trafficked to foreign death camps.
Thank you for following this for us and at some point we need to celebrate the people who are watching this closely enough that they can call a judge at 2 AM to stop it.
When I said to my son that the government now claims that the plan now is to deplane the children his eyebrows went up as he asked "Where?"
Where? To whom?
“Plans” change.
