“A judge says ‘enough’
“Turn that plane around.”
That’s what a federal judge in Washington told government lawyers in an immigration case Thursday.
The judge was not happy when he was told that a woman, known in court papers only as “Carmen,” and her daughter – expected in his courtroom to appeal the Justice Department’s refusal of their asylum request – had just hours before been spirited out the country by the government and put back on a plane to El Salvador.
In short, they’d been deported, despite their scheduled day in court in a lawsuit filed last week by the American Civil Liberties Union.