Judge orders asylum-seeking mother, daughter returned to U.S.

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A judge in a Washington D.C. threatened to hold the attorney general and other Trump administration officials in contempt for deporting a mother and her daughter against the judges' orders. The case is part of an ongoing legal battle over asylum claims. In his written order, District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan scolded Attorney General Jeff Sessions and ordered the government to "return Carmen and her daughter to the United States." -- More....