Todd Blanche: A Local D.C. Judge Stopped Process of Returning Children Back to Their Parents in Guatemala

GOWDY: “I want you to help our viewers sort through removal. Do those who are here unlawfully get to sit down with the travel agent and pick which country would make them happiest to go to? The judge might say you can’t send them to a certain country, but we don’t run a travel agency. I mean, if we want to send somebody to a country that’s willing to take them, and the judge doesn’t block it, that’s where we send them.”
BLANCHE: “Of course. That’s right. By the way, that’s what our immigration laws allow us to do. That’s what we’ve done for decades. That’s what we’ve done during Democrat administrations. That’s what we’ve done in past Republican administrations and that’s what we are doing in this administration. Speaking of which, Trey, today, today you saw something extraordinary in Washington D.C., and by extraordinary, I mean disgusting. In the middle of the night, at 3:30 A.M. a local judge in D.C. enjoined the Department of Justice, ICE and DHS from sending Guatemalan children back to their parents in Guatemala. Now think about that. Think about that for a minute. In the middle of the night, without even asking the government for their position, this judge enjoined the conduct of ICE and DHS. What she said is that notwithstanding the work the State Department had done working with the Guatemalan government for over a month to identify children who were smuggled into this country, away from the parents, who are know sitting in foster homes and orphanages around this country, to send them back to their parents in Guatemala, this judge said, ‘No, you cannot do it.’ In the middle of the night.”