Trump-appointed judge rules against the president

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00:00Trump appointed judge rules against the president.

00:03A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump has ruled against the Trump administration

00:08in a case involving a late-night attempt to deport dozens of children on flights out of the country.

00:14The ruling marked a bold rebuke of the president's hardline immigration policies.

00:19News.com can report.

00:21Trump-appointed Judge Timothy J. Kelly issued a preliminary injunction halting the federal government's plan

00:26to deport Guatemalan kids in the dead of night, finding that the Trump administration's actions

00:31likely breached federal immigration and human trafficking laws.

00:34While government officials claimed the deportations were a reunification effort,

00:39Judge Kelly found that argument crumbled like a house of cards.

00:43According to Mediaite, Guatemala's attorney general provided evidence that parents of more than 600 minors

00:48did not request their children to be returned.

00:51About 70 children between 10 and 17 were awakened from U.S. shelters in September.

00:56where they were being held and bused to planes, Mediaite reported.

01:01At 1 a.m., lawyers rushed to court in an effort to stop the Guatemala-bound flights,

01:06arguing that some of the children who arrived in the U.S. alone

01:09still had unresolved asylum cases or other legal protections,

01:13cautioning that U.S. law prohibits children from being whisked off under cover of darkness

01:17at the whim of any government.

01:20Another judge, Sparkle Suknanen, a nominee of former President Joe Biden,

01:24granted an emergency order to stop the flights from taking off.

01:28Judge Kelly later expanded that order, putting the deportations on hold indefinitely.

01:33The judge's ruling revealed one child was so scared that she vomited.

01:37Another minor said he felt he'd lost his breath.

01:40Some children explained in declarations that they didn't want to be sent back to Guatemala

01:44because they were afraid of violent gangs

01:46and worried they would be neglected or even killed if they were returned to the Central American country.

01:51According to Judge Kelly, it goes without saying that makes that irreparable harm.

01:56Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin responded to Judge Kelly's ruling,

02:02saying,

02:02In the dead of night,

02:15the Trump administration ripped vulnerable, frightened children from their beds

02:19and attempted to return them to danger in Guatemala, he said in a statement.

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