'Turn the Plane Around': Judge Stops Deportation During Emergency Hearing

A district judge in Washington halted a deportation already in progress for an El Salvadoran mother, going by the pseudonym Carmen, and her daughter. They had sought asylum in the U.S. after claiming they feared for their life in their homeland. When Judge Emmet Sullivan, who was holding an emergency hearing Thursday, learned that immigration authorities had already put Carmen and her daughter on a plane back to El Salvador, he ordered they return her "forthwith."