Apparently, Democrats do not want children to be reunited with their parents, you know, the same parents who sent the kids on a long, dangerous trip to the U.S. in the hope that once the kids were here the parents would be allowed to come….oh, that’s why Dems want the kids to stay
Judge orders US to halt deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children
A US judge on Sunday ordered an emergency halt to a plan by the Trump administration to deport a group of nearly 700 unaccompanied Guatemalan children back to their home country after immigrant advocates lawyers called the plan “illegal”.
Attorneys for 10 Guatemalan minors, ages 10 to 17, said in court papers filed late on Saturday that there were reports that planes were set to take off within hours for the Central American country. But a federal judge in Washington said those children couldn’t be deported for at least 14 days, and after a hastily scheduled hearing on Sunday, she enforced that they needed to be taken off the planes and back to the Office of Refugee Resettlement facilities while the legal process plays out.
Judge Sparkle L Sooknanan, a Joe Biden appointee, began the Sunday afternoon hearing by ensuring that the justice department had received her expanded order and that government officials were aware of it. “I do not want there to be any ambiguity,” she said, adding that her ruling applies broadly to Guatemalan minors who arrived in the US without their parents or guardians.
Did you think I was kidding about Judge Sparkle? Unsurprisingly, she’s a DC judge and a liberal woman
Government lawyers, meanwhile, maintained that the children weren’t being deported but rather reunited at the request of their parents or guardians – a claim that the children’s lawyers dispute, at least in some cases.
“I have conflicting narratives from both sides here,” Sooknanan said. She said that what she was hearing from the government lawyers “doesn’t quite line up” with what the children’s advocates had told her.
Similar emergency requests were filed in other parts of the country as well. Attorneys in Arizona and Illinois asked federal judges there to block deportations of unaccompanied minors, underscoring how the fight over the government’s efforts has quickly spread.
They were already boarding planes after a deal with the Guatemalan government, after which they would have been returned to their families. Dems hate that.
Lawyers for the Guatemalan children said the US government doesn’t have the authority to remove the children and is depriving them of due process by preventing them from pursuing asylum claims or immigration relief. Many have active cases in immigration courts, according to the attorneys’ court filing in Washington.
They’re children: they do not get due process. They should be sent back to their parents. How soon till the judge and the whiny-assed Democrats demand that the parents are flown to the U.S. for court?
Anyhow, you just had to know that Judge Sparkle would rule this way. Will she be overruled by an appeals court?
Elian Gonzalez was unavailable for comment.
Mr teach, with nary a nanogram of self-awareness, mocks District Judge Sooknanan’s given name, LOL!! How can someone with an unusual first name be taken seriously, LOL?? Rush, Barron, Porter, Reince, Marco, Newt, Dinesh, Kashyap, Grover, Rudy, Antonin, Condoleeza, Elon…
Further, Mr teach makes the outrageous claim that children “do not get due process”. Children DO have due process rights (see In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1, 20 (1967)). Anyway, Judge Sooknanan’s order is to slow the process for 14 days. Why the secrecy and rush? The administration has made several mistakes in their theatrical attacks on “illegals”.
Judge Sooknanan:
But is it really surprising? We already know that administration lawyers are ordered to lie for their chief, so a delay won’t hurt.
BTW, Mr Dana. Elián González is now an engineer in Cárdenas, Cuba and a member of the National Assembly in the Cuban parliament, so IS available for comment!
In 1999, his mother, her partner and others, with Elián (then 5 yr), fled Cuba by boat which sank, drowning most. Elián was found floating in an inner tube by fishermen near Ft Lauderdale and was delivered to the U.S. Therefore, he was an “illegal”! His father, back in Cuba, said the mother fled Cuba with Elián without the father’s knowledge. The father wanted Elián back in Cuba. Elián received “due process” in spades. His case was heard in federal appeals court! He and his father returned to Cuba 6 months after Elián was rescued from the ocean.
A few, some, most, all, the Guatemalan kids will end up back in Guatemala.