Judge stops mother and daughter's deportation, threatens Jeff Sessions with contempt of court

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While lawyers argued a migrant mother and daughter's asylum case in Washington, D.C., the pair was apparently being deported from Texas.

Carmen, as she's known in court papers, is one of 12 plaintiffs in an ACLU court case challenging recent changes to America's asylum policy, The Washington Post reports. Two of the plaintiffs were already deported, and Carmen was about to be the next — if the federal judge hearing her case didn't intervene.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.