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Thank you Anna! So disappointing that there’s no outrage and more reporting about this tragic crime of the US gov started at 3:4am, Sunday, Labor Day Weekend.
My God. They are such evil a’ holes.
Holy shit. Thank you
Thank you so very much.
Thank you for your dedication and professionalism. You are a patriot.
What of this.. (FO💩?) bsky.app/profile/jjin...
All planes were returned to US..(?) bsky.app/profile/muel...
Thank you!
Thank u so much!
Thank you, from across the pond 🏴
Thank you, I wasn't even aware of this until I saw your post.
That was crazy - thank you.
Thanks as always Anna! Thanks to the awesome judge as well. Ensign plays the toad well.
Anna thank you! Come to find out, Noem was in Guatemala in June to sign an agreement to take asylum seekers, evidently even innocent children, with no due process. www.yahoo.com/news/us-sign...
She will look *fabulous* in orange when this is all over. I hope she knows that!
Thank you for your work.🤙
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Judge Sparkle Sooknanan. We all are going to need her clarity and persistence.
Heroic Judge has been up since 2:30 am trying to stop this human trafficking by Trump. Engrave her name on our hearts.
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This is incredible. I want to cry. Thank you Anna.
The thought of planes full of terrified crying children has had me keyed up all day.
This is horrible. I am beyond incadescent over this. This is what these people do when they think no one's looking. There will be NO such thing as holidays anymore. EVERY moment all they can think of is when can they get away with it.
why we can’t have nice things, or holidays.
"These children are going to be deplaned. They're going to be returned to [the Office of Refugee Resettlement] custody. And no attempts will be made to remove them from ORR custody and remove them to Guatemala, in light of my order, while these preliminary emergency proceedings are pending.”
So if the planes are on their way? Who goes to jail?
It seems this is more of a trafficking operation than a return to home.
Extraordinary rendition. www.aclu.org/issues/natio...
Which used to mostly be rare and secret
You’re probably correct. Which makes me think that there’s a good explanation (beyond Trump’s relationship with Epstein) for not wanting to release the Epstein files…you might find several GOP billionaire names in it. How many condone (WHOLEHEARTEDLY) trafficking children?
Co-President Stephen Miller, upon reading that... "So we send them to Uganda. Job done. Get it done." The old Q-Anon folk, who were all about "protect the children": [Crickets] [Some more crickets] [Wow, an entire field of crickets!]
"And no attempts will be made to remove them from ORR custody"
I really don’t know how you keep up with all of this, especially something moving as quickly as this one. Amazing. Thank you.
Thank you Anna!
Anna, thank you!
Thank you for this reporting.
Thank you, Anna; for all you do.
Thank you for providing this thread! This Ensign person, wow, zealous advocacy does _not_ include lying to federal judges. Hope the court(s) document the lies, sanction for them, some people should be disbarred
When it comes to children people need to stop using the word deport children. When in fact what Trump is doing is trafficking in children. He's trafficking them for nefarious reasons. Where are the 500 children that are still missing from his first Administration???
The GOP sure loves trafficking children. That's like their one consistent policy. The party of Epstein.
Thanks for all your work today!
Ty for this important reporting! The judge understands.
Thank you!
Thank you, Anna. And...good god, the non-stop lying abuse is just appalling.
Thank you!
Thank you
Thank you for the indispensable coverage! And on a holiday weekend too! 👏
Thank you for covering this. So basically, the U.S. government wants to get into child trafficking. They can say what they like, provide fake documents, prevaricate, but bottom line - this is what they just tried to do.
Thanks for spreading the word on this on Labor Day Sunday
The US Government is now Trafficking children.
Has been for a while. Where did all those separated children end up under Trump's 1st term? Did we ever find them all?
Are they on an island?
Thanks for your reporting on this today
Thank you.
Ty so much Anna!
Thank you for sharing this heart breaking situation. I appreciate that you're working on Labor Day weekend.
Excellent play by play!!
Thanks, Anna, you’ve earned a replacement holiday weekend off, for sure!
Thank you. 🙏
So they were yet again kidnapping people and deporting them without due process. 😡 (I am using the term deporting generously.) This seems like child trafficking if you ask me. Disgusting. Thank goodness for the lawyers representing these children.
Thanks to you for reporting and the judge, who went above and beyond to help these vulnerable children. ❤️
And to the National Immigration Law Center who appears to be representing these children! Toss them a donation!
Thank you Anna, this was a very important story.
Thank you so much 🙏
I have dealt with unaccompanied minors. Most of them have families in the US that they stay with, or can stay with. So these children most likely were taken from their homes and families and placed in detention to be trafficked out of the country in the middle of the night. It is evil.
Thank you for everything you are doing. The amount of resources, personnel, time, and equipment the government is expending on this obviously illegal and racist plan is insane.
DHS tried to deport hundreds of minors on a Sunday, during a holiday weekend, despite a court order explicitly forbidding them to do so. No low level bureaucrat would do this without explicit directions from the top. Charge Noem and her direct subordinates with contempt RIGHT NOW.
Thanks to the judge for taking a call at 3:00am! I know it's the job, but I can still applaud it. Thank you and the judge (and staff!) and the attorneys representing these children for working on holiday Sunday. 🙏🏼 Curses to the DOJ & Immigration groups making this necessary.
*Actually it was 2:30am when she got the call and she and her staff went to work.
Thank you for your incredible work, Anna!
Thanks for following Anna!!! You're an absolute hero of this era.
💯💯💯 Thank you, @annabower.bsky.social!!!
I concur!!!!! 🫡 ✊🏼💪🏼
Any judge that has to reiterate and reiterate AGAIN because the lawyers for the government consistently try get away with something illegal is unacceptable. The trump regime has to be made to PAY for the harm they’ve done - to EVERYONE. And let the punishment fit the crime!
Thank you for being on call for this emergency on a holiday weekend. I know what it’s like and I want you to know that it truly is appreciated by people.
Thank you for your work.
Thank you for your reporting. I am mortified by the abhorrent attempt to traffick children. My government's participation in this vile behavior is criminal and immoral.
Incredible. Thank you.
Thank you so much.
thank you
Geez, how many judges have to yell at this Ensign guy before he has a “Are we the baddies?” moment?
Maybe be enjoys being a baddie?
It would certainly seem so.
Thank you!
Thank you.
Oh thank you so much Anna I really needed this good news this weekend ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you, Anna! I’m serving as a volunteer documenting masked supposed ICE agents kidnapping people from immigration hearings. The story of these children, already in dangerous and vulnerable situations being traumatized by our US gov’t is beyond sick.
Thank you
Anna Bower, you're the best!
Thank you
Thank you Anna, your reporting is so valuable. Drew Ensign is going to become a cautionary tale.
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Who are the individuals participating in this late in The middle of the night in Labor Day weekend? And how is this not child trafficking?
Maybe the authority who DOJ lawyer Drew Ensign keeps checking with is Angie Salazar, acting director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, in charge of this operation on behalf of Kristi Noem at Homeland Security who made a deal with Guatamala last week. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Names surfaced in socials would certainly help grass roots focus on pressure points… these despicable actions need disinfecting via sunlight!
Just an absolute ass reaming lol. What did that NJ mayor say again?
Important to recall that DOJ stopped funding attorneys for unaccompanied migrant children in immigration court this spring. Among many other great orgs doing that work still is KIND: supportkind.org/who-we-are/
Thank you! Invaluable light you shine on these attempts to manipulate our judicial systems.
Thank you so much Anna 🙏
Thank you so much for your reporting.
Jesus. Thank you for covering this, Anna. I hope you can go take some time for self care now. This has to be exhausting.
Thank you, Anna - your work is excellent and much appreciated!
Thank you Anna
Well done! I wish I weren't a pauper so I could help you!
