Most Americans just enjoyed the last official summer days on the long laboratory day weekend when federal judge Sparkle Sooknanan was woken up by an urgent message at 2.30 a.m. on Sunday. A group of lawyers alerted the judge at the Washington district court that the Trump government wanted to deport numerous unaccompanied children from Guatemala into their country of origin within the next four hours. Three machines were ready to go at two airports in Texas.