This makes me sick. The Republican party are the ones that do no care for… children.
A federal judge delivered a blow to President Donald Trump‘s immigration crackdown on Friday, halting his administration’s efforts to speed up deportations without due process — noting how “everyone would be at risk” of losing their rights if the government got its way, “not only noncitizens.”
“The government could accuse you of entering unlawfully, relegate you to a bare-bones proceeding where it would ‘prove’ your unlawful entry, and then immediately remove you,” wrote U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, a Joe Biden appointee, in a 48-page opinion handed down in District Court for the District of Columbia.
“By merely accusing you of entering unlawfully, the government would deprive you of any meaningful opportunity to disprove its allegations,” Cobb said. “Fortunately, that is not the law. The Constitution guarantees that ‘no person shall be removed from the United States without opportunity, at some time, to be heard.’ That is equally true of those here unlawfully.”
Cobb refused to mince words throughout her ruling, accusing the Trump administration of shredding due process in a rush to deport people from the country without giving them “the right to hire counsel, examine and present evidence, and cross-examine witnesses,” according to the Washington judge.
In a separate case, Cobb blocked the Trump administration earlier this month from summarily deporting immigrants who were previously allowed into the country and harshly upbraided the federal government over its various removal schemes. Plaintiffs did not raise a constitutional due process claim, but Cobb did note how immigrants at the center of the case — and Trump’s deportation crusade in general — have “fled oppressive regimes and perilous conditions in their home countries” and “played by the rules” to get to the United States, and now they’re being punished for it, per Cobb.
Guatemalan children seen deplaning in Texas after judge blocks Trump deportation plan
— Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) August 31, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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This is not merely deceptive but evil
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
— Peter Sterne (@petersterne.com) August 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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