BREAKING: Judge Kelly (Trump appointee) bars the Trump administration from deporting Guatemalan kids in HHS custody [View all]
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/18/guatemalan-children-deportation-ruling-00570828
BREAKING: Judge Kelly (Trump appointee) bars the Trump administration from deporting Guatemalan kids in HHS custody, finding the claim they were âreunifyingâ kids with their parents âcrumbled like a house of cardsâ upon review. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2025-09-18T14:27:18.945Z
Trump allies attacked the first judge who blocked this deportation, Biden appointee Sparkle Sooknanan, under the false claim she was blocking kids from reunifying with their parents. They repeatedly highlighted her foreign heritage. Wonder what they'll say about Kelly.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2025-09-18T14:29:27.519Z
This is the claim that the Trump-appointed Judge Tim Kelly said "crumbled like a house of cards."
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2025-09-18T14:33:49.595Z
NEW: A Trump-appointed federal judge says the Trump administration falsely claimed to be "reunifying" Guatemalan children with their parents when they launched a middle-of-the-night deportation operation that violated the law.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2025-09-18T16:16:08.527Z