The judge expressed concern that a plane carrying the mother & her daughters was by then already “above the Gulf of America.” His suspicions were confirmed, he wrote, when a lawyer for the #Trump #DOJ told him at 1:06PM that day that Ms. Lopez Villela & presumably her #children “had just been released in Honduras.”

“The government contends that this is all OK because the mother wishes that the #child be deported with her,” wrote Judge Doughty, a conservative #Trump appointee. “But the court doesn’t know that.”

Asserting that “it is #illegal & #unconstitutional to deport” a #UScitizen, Judge Doughty set a hearing for May 16 to explore his “strong suspicion that the government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.”

In a brief order issued from Federal District Court in the Western District of Louisiana, Judge Terry A. Doughty questioned why the #Trump admin had sent the #child — known in court papers only as V.M.L. — to Honduras with her mother even though her father had sought in an emergency petition on Thurs to stop the girl from being sent abroad.

“All around them people are crying, fainting, & having panic attacks due to the stress,” Welch said. She’s interviewed hundreds of #kids who’ve been detained after crossing the #border. In #Texas, though, she had an unusual experience—some of the #children she met weren’t recent #immigrants. They had been in the country for years.

In late March, Leecia Welch, a deputy #litigation director at #ChildrensRights, a #legal nonprofit that represents #children in government custody, visited a #family #jail in #Texas that the #Trump Admin had recently reopened. The immigrant children Welch met were #hungry, #SleepDeprived, & bored [lacking educational activity].

The grants sent millions of dollars to organizations that support #intervention programs for #nonviolent youth offenders; programs to avert #opioid-related deaths in #Newark; programs aimed at identifying community-based approaches to preventing #HateCrimes against #Arab, #Jewish & #Asian Americans; & a confidential hotline run by the National Center for #Victims of #Crime to inform crime victims about their rights.

Harsono met his future wife in 2022 while studying for his MBA, & they married the next year. They now have an 8-month-old daughter, Adalet, who recently learned how to say “da da” during calls with her jailed father.

“I just wanna kiss my wife on her forehead, & hold my daughter as tight as I can,” Harsono said Wednesday night. “I wanna be there for my daughter.”

@heidilifeldman

Quite frankly, I don’t know what to do with this cruel immoral dictator Trump.

If I had my way, I would rather hire mercenaries to break into that #ElSalvador prison and BRING HIM BACK!

@exchgr

About 60 letters canceling contracts were sent over the past week, including for major projects w/the #WorldFoodProgram, the world’s largest provider of #food aid, a #USAID ofcl said. An ofcl w/the #UnitedNations in the #MiddleEast said the #WFP received termination letters for US-funded programs in #Lebanon, #Jordan & #Syria.

The projects were being canceled “for the convenience of the US Government” at the direction of #JeremyLewin, a top lieutenant at #Trump *adviser* #ElonMusk’s #DOGE whom the Trump admin appointed to oversee & finish dismantling the #USAID, acc/to letters sent to USAID partners & viewed by the AP.

@georgetakei #TheCrueltyIsThePoint

The #Trump admin intends to terminate the #UnitedStates’ financial support for #Gavi, the org that has helped purchase critical #vaccines for #children in developing countries, saving millions of lives over the past quarter century, & to significantly scale back support for efforts to combat #malaria, one of the biggest killers globally.