The Questions No One Wants to Answer: Where Were the Children, and Why Were We Kept in the Dark?

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The Questions No One Wants to Answer: Where Were the Children, and Why Were We Kept in the Dark? - Daily Kos

Nearly 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children, ages 10 to 17 according to NPR and the NYT, were quietly rounded up and loaded onto chartered planes in the dead of night over a holiday weekend. These kids were minutes away from being deported when District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan issued an emergency 14-day injunction that forced ICE to return them to U.S. custody. Court filings confirm the planes were on the tarmac in Texas, children already seated, when the order hit. (Washington Post, Politico)

This wasn’t rumor. It was a planned, covert operation that bypassed oversight — and it was only stopped because lawyers moved fast and a judge answered her phone at 2:30 a.m.

And now, in the stunned silence that’s followed, the real story lingers in the questions no one seems willing to answer.

This isn’t about partisan differences or policy debates. This is about basic humanity. Any administration willing to move children in secret, with no transparency and no public accountability, has shown the country something deeply troubling — that these children were treated as problems to move, not lives to protect.

I think it shows us far more than THAT.