Judge orders plane carrying deported mother and child turned around, blocks more removals

[Julian Englis]

Source: NBC

In a federal courtroom in Washington on Thursday, a federal judge heard about something the Trump administration had just done that clearly angered him. The government, he learned, had just deported an immigrant mother and daughter who are plaintiffs in the lawsuit the judge was hearing over family separations.

So the judge did something highly unusual: He demanded the administration turn around the plane carrying the plaintiffs to Central America and bring them back to the United States. And he ordered the government to stop removing people from the country who are seeking protection from gang and domestic violence.

The U.S. district judge, Emmet Sullivan, was presiding over a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. He had earlier been assured by the government in open court that no plaintiffs in the suit would be deported before midnight Friday.

Link to tweet

The ACLU lawsuit had challenged a decision by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to exclude domestic and gang violence as reasons for immigrants to be granted asylum. The ACLU sought a stay of removal for its plaintiffs.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/judge-orders-plane-carrying-deported-mother-child-turned-around-blocks-n899311

[tavernier]

1. Can't wait to see the movie!!!!

Good job Your Honor!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. The tRump "movie" would four years of 13 wk episode sets: 52 weeks to scratch the surface. . . nt

[Amaryllis]

27. And it would span continents...do you think this is the most bigly web of corruption ever spun in

the history of time?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. Yup, tRump will get his wish and be the best at fucking up bigly. . . . nt

[Amaryllis]

29. He will be the subject of the most bigly docmentary maxiseries ever on TV. THe Rise and Fall of

the Biggliest Con in History.

[wiggs]

2. Heinous administration action. Someone needs to be fired. nt

[avebury]

4. They need to be locked up.

Lock them all up into the children are reunited with their parents.

[leanforward]

3. We've been too easy on high level folks (read as white collar criminals)

If memory serves me, Iceland sent those bankers to Jail for their participation in the 2008-09 loan debacle.

It is time for the leaders and underlings to serve time. Even for CONTEMPT of Court.

Most of us would be in jail so fast our heads would be spinning.

Who went to jail for creating all of the bogus accounts at Wells Fargo? They paid a big fine and maybe a few got fired.

I feel for the mother and child. I know they will be cared for back on the ground.

[ooky]

5. Good.

[turbinetree]

6. And today the head cheese that was a former (model which was questionable), her,

mother and father got there green card citizens for this country, while the chief racist in the DOJ, the beauregard, and the orange one, and his side kick, racist policy adviser Miller .................this is just FUCKED UP................and then there is Wolf Blitzer and his fucked up comments.........................

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/09/politics/viktor-amalija-knavs-us-citizens/index.html

[riversedge]

9. Money speaks. damn.

[nature-lover]

7. Yes! Doing his job like a true patriot.

[riversedge]

8. Please contribute to the ACLU if you are able. Thanks.

[BigmanPigman]

18. After hearing the ACLU attorney on Rachel

Maddow I was so grateful for him and the work they do I wrote a small check two weeks ago. Bravo and THANK YOU to all of them!

[secondwind]

10. Who's in charge in that nuthouse??!!???

[mobeau69]

11. His name is Putin.

[heaven05]

12. it's not the wife

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of the AMERICAN vet, 1 tour in Iraq. Vet's names is Temo Juarez, a naturalized American citizen. I think I read that she got deported after living with the vet as his wife for 20 years. I was hoping it was her. I really, really hate AG sessions and dumptrump.

[tavernier]

30. I think it was a different family.

Pretty sure she was already deported as I watched her pleading at the airport days ago and Mexico isn’t a long flight. And they were not seeking asylum or protection... they have lived here for years.

[Gothmog]

13. Judge Sullivan's order requiring our clients to be returned to the United States

Link to tweet

[catrose]

31. Heck, bring them in to court to answer even if they do comply

[Solly Mack]

14. K&R

[aeromanKC]

15. Possible Contempt charge on Sessions

C'mon Judge. Do it!!

[lark]

16. Please, oh please, jail the evil elf.

I don't think he'd have a good time in prison, but needs to experience what he wants so badly for minorities and how the privatived prison system really works. Of course, this probably wouldn't happen, they'd put him in some fancy pants not even real jail. However it is totally what the kidnapper and torturer deserves.

[C Moon]

17. Bush and Cheney got away with everything; so these a-holes believe they'll get the same treatment.

[tavernier]

32. Yes they did.

I’m glad some of us still remember that Iraq wasn’t responsible for 9/11, and that thousands died on both sides (and continue) because Baby Bush was gunning for Saddam due to a personal vendetta.

Suddenly Vincent Van Dubya has become a kind elder statesman and artist, and all is forgiven.

Fortunately, most polls show 100% agreement that Cheney is the bowels and asshole of Satan. At least we have found a small compromise.

[calimary]

41. I haven't forgiven him.

[sl8]

20. ICE spokeswoman says they will comply with court's order

From https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/immigration/judge-halts-mother-daughter-deportation-threatens-to-hold-sessions-in-contempt/2018/08/09/a23a0580-9bd6-11e8-8d5e-c6c594024954_story.html?utm_term=.f3ea9d3f81c7

...
A spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, which implements deportations, did not respond to questions about why the Carmen and her daughter were removed from the country. “We are complying with the court’s order, and upon arrival in El Salvador, the plaintiffs will not disembark and will be promptly returned to the United States,” ICE spokeswoman Justine Whelan said.
...

[Cha]

23. Thanks, sl8!

[sl8]

24. De nada.

[FuzzyRabbit]

25. ICE is playing dirty.

A spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, which implements deportations, did not respond to questions about why the Carmen and her daughter were removed from the country.

Pretty obvious. The government could then claim that because the two were no longer in the US, there was no reason to proceed with the hearing.

[Corgigal]

35. Ice racist policy

are costing us a mint. We're gonna get below 0 unemployment, then everyone will pay more for lots of things.

[Pachamama]

21. All on the same day Melania (illegal alien?) Knauss Trump's parents became US citizens thanks to the

...policies that Trump doesn't apply to others.....

GRRRRRRRRRR.....

[Cha]

22. WOW!! Brilliant! Take that

evil fucking monsters.

[lapfog_1]

26. did the plane actually turn around and bring the woman and her child back?

I can't tell from the link or the information online about this.

[moondust]

33. Yes it did.

They are back in the U.S. Rachel read the dramatic exchange with the upset judge on her show.

[lapfog_1]

34. I heard that... I heard the judge order it

and the DOJ attorney texted it in real time as a judicial order to somebody.

I didn't hear that the plane turned around an delivered the mother and child back to the US.

[moondust]

36. I thought Rachel said

they are, in fact, back in the U.S. but I could be wrong.

[stopwastingmymoney]

37. I think you're right, I saw that on CBS news as well

[McCamy Taylor]

38. I wanna see Sessions in jail.

[area51]

39. +1 n/t

[dlk]

40. We Need to See Jail Time for Contempt

Everyone in the Trump administration has been consistently pushing the envelope to see how much illegality they can get away with. A few nights behind bars for those at the top would go far.

[1cheapbeemr]

42. ...

Guessing he isn't a member of the Federalist Society...

[Hortensis]

43. Safe guess in a number of ways. :)

Link to tweet

It's a shame we don't have a picture of Judge Sullivan when he found out. "Mad" is reportedly somewhat of an understatement.