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August 10, 2018

Judge Threatens to Hold Sessions in Contempt of Court over Asylum Seekers' Deportation
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A federal judge has threatened to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions
and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in contempt of court
after learning immigration authorities had already begun the deportation
of a Salvadoran mother and her daughter, despite the two being
plaintiffs in a pending ACLU lawsuit challenging Sessions's efforts to
stop people fleeing gang violence and domestic violence from qualifying
for asylum. Federal judge Emmet Sullivan slammed the administration,
saying, "This is pretty outrageous. That someone seeking justice in U.S.
court is spirited away while her attorneys are arguing for justice for
her?" Judge Sullivan has now ordered the administration to return the
mother and daughter to the United States immediately. They had already
been flown to El Salvador. They've now been returned to Houston.


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