A DOJ lawyer acknowledged during a hearing Wednesday that one of her colleagues made representations to a federal judge that she could not back up. The admission comes after attorneys who had successfully blocked Labor Day weekend deportations of "unaccompanied" minors showed through documentation that the assertion that "all of these children have their parents or guardians in Guatemala who are requesting their return" wasn't actually true.

As Law&Crime reported at the outset on the case of L.G.M.L. et al. v. Kristi Noem , the Trump administration planned over the holiday weekend to carry out hundreds of deportations and had planes loaded and reportedly sitting on a tarmac , but attorneys for the plaintiffs swiftly moved to block that action in federal court. What resulted was U.S. Distr

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