Or custody what?

Just waiting for hell to swallow Stephen Miller whole.😡

Have we confirmed that it was all of the children or just the ones that the government agreed should be in the class?

All 76 of the putative class members

What was the 600 number?

Good question

Sorry I should’ve said all 76 putative class members *who were loaded on the planes.* The 600 number was the estimated number of putative class members writ large — not just the kids who were loaded on planes yesterday

Got it, feeling at least somewhat better. Thanks for clarifying!

Ah! I thought all 600 had been loaded on planes, so thanks for that info.

I’m glad that was clarified!

Go take a nap, have a drink, sit in the sun with a good book, cavort in the woods with small creatures, dance naked around a fire… you deserve all of that today. Thank you for staying with this extraordinary story and keeping us updated!

Thanks for clarifying!

76 out of 600? Where are the rest?

So were any kids deported at all?

Wondering too...

Who has verified this as true?

They NEVER should have been picked up OR moved out in the first place. These kids aren't gang members or criminals!

What took so long⁉️⁉️

Thank you Ann for this update. Also thank you for all you do to keep us updated with all of these Hearings. Without you sharing them, I would be lost.

It was an enormous mistake to open all of the ORR custody files to ICE. All trust by the migrant families was immediately destroyed and social workers were forced to be immigration officers.

‘Oh, I hope -you- didn’t want any sleep, either.’

These ghouls keeping children up at 1:30 in the morning. Fuck these people.

Wonder why the labels changed as the status reports progressed: class members (1st status report) minor putative class members (2nd) putative class members / minors (3d) minor aliens (4th) minor alien / putative class members (5th)

ORR?

Quality Work by this judge! All thumbs up! 👍👍👍👍👍👍💐💐💐💐 Well done.

This doesn’t exactly scream Nobel Peace Prize

Thank you Judge Sparkle! I don't think I'm ever going to get tired of saying that :)

I’m happy for this, but also those poor kids. Woken up at 3am to be put on a plane for 22 hours until 1am. Just so unnecessary to stress these kids out like this.

He should still be jailed for this horseshit. And then pilloried in the national mall during the next regime.

Thank GOD, someone is looking out for the children!

How would anyone know if they were lying?

Fair question.

Recalcitrant DOJ continues to say “make me!” They are an embarrassing representation of the small pee president.

Congratulations to Snooknanan, who was willing to stare the government in the eye and back them down.

i hope they all have people providing trauma informed care & extra support today

Oh. OK then, since you say so. Pics pls. Of all of them, on recognizable US soil, holding a dated news paper you lying fucks

Children. Sending children off to a country alone and scared. What a sick and despicable administration we have running and ruining this country.

The amount of resources being spent on this is insane.

Alien? How about human?

The last statement seems like they’re giving themselves some wiggle room to me.

Good.

Where was Melania in all of this?

Double checking the pre-nup.

She really doesn’t care, remember?!

(Unconfirmed) word is she was spotted at Walter Reed yesterday.

Not caring as usual.

I wonder if Mr. Ensign might be hiding behind the phrase “putative class members,” so that the govt could transport others which they could later claim did not fall into the class. Has anyone checked the flight records of that Global aircraft?

Drew Ensign is going to get medically retired if this goes on much longer.

He should be disbarred first.

More than 24 hours after they were put in that plane. Sheer terror. They should get counseling for the rest of their lives.

Why is a regime run by pedophiles handling unaccompanied children in the middle of the night?

Thank God

I'm so resisting the urge to take this with a grain of salt

Right!

www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

Who are the parents in Guatemala that filed requests for their children’s return? Where is that list Judge?

It doesn’t exist.

It’s just the most damning thing that the judge had to take all of those meticulous steps for 36 hours just to get the government to somehow comply.

Judge Sooknanan definitely deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

Now that should infuriate his Orangeness…

👍

I don’t trust the DOJ

Apparently, neither does this judge...

I don’t understand why they are allowed just lie in immigration case like this without consequences

I hope Ensign and Miller had a horrible holiday weekend!

'not aware' is legal BS CYA for denying what you know but don't want admit.

But Ensign has already lied repeatedly.

Big fan of Judge Sooknanan right now. Without her dogged determination to ensure all the kids were returned, it wouldn’t have happened.

Man. Those poor kids.

What, um, took so long? Is it that hard?

They're sending a lot of children to a lot of different places, it's not just all one central location. Also, they don't want to do it in the first place, so they have dragged their feet at every step and gone right up to and possibly over the line of contempt more than once in this process.

Why are they obeying her? I mean, I'm glad and it's the right thing to do. But what's up here?

Judge is contempt-proofing in light of JGG/Boasberg and attorney ensign does not seem willing to go to jail for the regime. Trying everything they can but luckily people like Judge S are smarter and savvier.

But where will these children go and when will they go there:

Requiring this level of attention from the judge surely can’t be making friendships

#SparkleSooknanan

Careful. It says they're not aware of .... That sounds like wiggle room to me.

This had me up all night. Nuremberg equivalent cannot come soon enough

They just *have* to use the term “minor alien”

1/ Goddess, I hate the way they refer to these CHILDREN, who have absolutely no resources and no choice. This is just wrong and NOT what beejezuz would do. How do these misanthropes live with themselves? When I worked in federal court in an extremely busy border district. each and every judge

2/ (with one hateful exception) referred to children in the system as CHILDREN, not "alien," and insisted that Assistant US Attorneys and Probation Officers do the same. I applaud them for it. CHILDREN, you asses at DOJ, CHILDREN who have absolutely nothing to their names, and

3/ sometimes not even their names!

i appreciate drew ensign's work ethic. he doesn't have much help.

I can’t believe this is our country now. You would think there would be no one who would approve of this. But looking at other MSM, there are a lot of truly awful and hateful individuals out there who are fine with this cruelty! This sickens me.

So, when the trials and subsequent punishments for these fascists begins, we will all remember the roll Drew Ensign played, correct? You don’t get to enable fascists and the terrorizing of children and avoid the gallows.

Great news. But, until someone pays actual penalties for their illegal actions, these kabuki dances that tear peoples’ lives apart will continue to the delight of the Trump sociopaths.

I thought there was a total of around 600 children. Am I remembering that incorrectly?

The number of kids on the planes is smaller than the number of kids in the putative class of people covered by the judge’s TRO

The number of children in the class action versus the number of children on the plane(s) (I think)

Right. So what is happening with the rest of the kids?

this is not a researched or informed answer, but I presumed they were not at risk of like-tonight imminent deportation, but were added to the class so if the action prevails, they would all receive protection

Right

I give the current administration zero benefit of the doubt. I'd like to see this specifically spelled out.

No, heard that too...

Here is a CNN report that gives the 600 number. Trump Admin Sending 600 Guatemalan Kids Back Home in New 'Repatriation' Move—Report - Newsweek share.google/R8Ko0xRcQCW3...

Our brilliant host M. Bowers says "hundreds" here: Emergency Hearing over the Removal of Unaccompanied Minors to Guatemala | Lawfare share.google/NaS2PKPI9WOm...

But the most recent updates only say 76. Of which 10 are named. Did the other 524 never exist? (Reporting was fast and loose). Or are they covered by implication?

I think that there were a total of 600 that they wanted to deport, but a much smaller number involved with this particular action.

Well, they want to deport anyone darker than ecru, but I get your point.

Yeah, which is why I’m happy that class action covers all of the kids.

Does it? (Please understand that I am not being intentionally argumentative) Can you give a reference? Everything I have seen lists the class as 76 children with 10 named.

I could be wrong. I thought all 600 were protected, maybe not as part of the class but as part of her order.

And our host M. Bowers has answered in the affirmative.

But has he lied

their hearing was at 12:30 noon the day before and the kid didnt get to ORR until 1:30am?

And what exactly was the Trump administration facilitating with the deportation of 600 children (assuming I’m getting all the facts correct)? Is the administration actively trafficking children to foreign countries and for what/who’s purpose? This is Epstein level evil

On a petty note I'm so glad this jerk DOJ lawyer had to work over the whole Labor Day weekend

👍💗

She persisted!