Translation (DeepL, no quality check):
Three US children from two different families were deported together with their mothers by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on Friday morning. This was reported by the “Washington Post” on Sunday, citing information from the lawyers of the families concerned.
According to the report, two mothers and their children were deported. According to the report, one of the children was a four-year-old toddler with terminal cancer. It was deported without medication and without being able to contact its doctors, said the family’s lawyer.
The lawyers for the families concerned stated that the deportees were initially arrested during routine checks in New Orleans. They were then taken to Alexandria in the US state of Louisiana, where they were unceremoniously put on a plane that flew the deportees to Honduras. In Louisiana, they were forbidden contact with their family members and legal representatives by the authorities, the report continues.
Judge wants to review deportation of two-year-old One of the deported mothers was deported together with her two-year-old girl. The child is a US citizen, but was deported together with her Honduran mother and her eleven-year-old sister.
Federal judge in the state of Louisiana, Terry Doughty, scheduled a court hearing for May 16 “in the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the government has just deported a U.S. citizen without due process.”
The US government argues “that this is all fine” because the undocumented mother had expressed a wish for the child to be deported with her. “But the court doesn’t know that”, the judge emphasized. At the same time, Doughty pointed out that the deportation of US citizens is “illegal and unconstitutional”.
It is illegal and unconstitutional to deport, detain or recommend the deportation of a US citizen. ~Terry Doughty
Lawyers had applied on behalf of the two-year-old’s father to have the child returned to the USA. Honduran President Xiomara Castro offered her country’s support to the mother and child on Saturday via the online service X.
Immigration authorities forbade contact with the father According to court documents, the girl had accompanied her mother and her eleven-year-old sister to an appointment with immigration authorities in New Orleans on Tuesday morning. About an hour later, her father, who had driven the family to the meeting in New Orleans, received a phone call in which he was simply told that the family had been taken into custody.
That night, the girl’s father was allowed to speak with her mother for only a minute before an immigration agent ended the conversation, attorneys said. The man did not have another opportunity to speak to his partner until after she was released in Honduras, they added.
Trump administration’s deportations heavily criticized Since US President Donald Trump took office almost 100 days ago, the authorities have been pursuing a restrictive immigration policy. Opposition Democrats as well as judges and human rights groups accuse the Trump administration of ignoring rights guaranteed in the US constitution when deporting migrants and not even granting a hearing to people threatened with deportation.
The executive director of the civil rights organization ACLU, Alanah Odoms, criticized the circumstances of the deportations to the “Washington Post”. “I don’t know how much more blatant and clear a constitutional violation can be than these recent deportations of US citizens without due process.” The deportations are all the more appalling “because some of these citizens are among the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable: Children. And not just any children, but children with serious medical conditions.”
On Friday, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in the state of Wisconsin arrested Judge Hannah Dugan on charges that she obstructed an immigration detention of a migrant.
In March, “NBC” reported on the case of a deported ten-year-old US citizen. According to the report, she had a brain tumor and was being treated in the USA until she and her family were deported to Mexico. (mira, AFP)
Mother had legal custody.
Father didn’t petition the court, his sister did.
This story is stupid. It has nothing to do with Trump.
Edit: For the downvoters…
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69940863/6/v-m-l-v-harper/
Mother had legal custody. And mother expressly desired to bring her child home with her.
And ICE gave the “father” a chance to prove who the fuck he was… and he didn’t.
And the “petitioner” is NOT the father. As expressed here.
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Edit2: Hah more downvotes. Just remember, you were yelling about separating families not that long ago. Now you’re advocating for separating the mother from her kids… to give to an unknown man who can’t produce anything to show that he’s even related to them. Wild.
Nothing says MAGA like taking the highground over a kid dying of terminal cancer. Your prioties are just as fucking awful as the people you vote for.
Nothing says seething Democrat like calling someone who isn’t in the MAGA crowd MAGA…
Coulda fooled us
Nah, you lot are just as rabid as the MAGA people… You can’t understand nuance and discussion.
Enjoy the bonus down vote for your asinine second edit proving you’re not just a stickler-for-legalism reply-guy and entirely missed the point. Is this one of those examples of conservatives approaching the world differently because they just fundamentally don’t understand the concept of empathy?
Yes. OP never even considered that not deporting the mom with a fucking terminally ill child was even an option. Their literal first move is to rip this woman from her home, and justify it by blaming her.
Bullshit, you have no idea what I considered. Have you considered that the child’s mother might have options for healthcare in Mexico? That they chose to do this on purpose? Wouldn’t you think that the mother would have thought her options through?
That they purposely got deported to Honduras because they have options for healthcare in Mexico? Pardon?
My mistake, Honduras. Was a few hours since I read the story and haven’t scrolled up in a bit. I was writing a post about how if I violated a law in Mexico I’d be imprisoned and deported all the same and that got stuck in my head I suppose.
That stuck in your head, but not the deportation of terminal US children
The child wasn’t deported. The mother was, and the mother chose to bring her child with her. The child was not deported.
You seem to think that leaving your terminally ill FOUR YEAR OLD CHILD alone in a foreign nation that just forcibly removed you, is a valid choice for anyone.
Just fucking delusional, dude. Stop and think about the implications of what you’re defending here… Have you heard of empathy?
Which part of the boot tastes best in your opinion? I find it’s always helpful to have the opinion of a local when eating out.
You’re arguing to deport a terminally ill American citizen out of state. We don’t have to kick out the mom just to scratch our racist itches.
Guess the 4 year old was part of a gang. /s so we passed the Rubicon for deporting American citizens and we still haven’t shut this country down.
The child wasn’t deported. The mother has legal custody and chose to bring her child home with her. You’re literally arguing that we should separate child and mother and give the child to an unproven “father” expressly against the mothers will.
You missed the point there. The moral thing to do is to not deport either of them.
I didn’t miss any point. You lied. I called it out. And now you backpedal to a completely different arguement.
You seem to be assuming that people wouldn’t interpret the original situation as “don’t deport the mother”. Most people with empathy would have.
I think the point you’re missing from the judge and by most people who are outraged by what’s been going on with the recent actions taken by ICE is the lack of due process and illegal removal of non-citizens.
If the current administration and ICE weren’t in direct violation of the Constitution, the courts and the laws of the US then this situation doesn’t occur.
Or even basic human decency
ICE’s job of removing people who are in the country illegally is not in violation of the Constitution.
Deportation isn’t unconstitutional. Skipping due process is. Learn the difference.
Okay, “learn the difference” person. What part of the process was skipped here for the mother to be deported?
I’m only replying to the comment that you made. No need to argue in bad faith.
If my response to you was in “bad faith” then your logical leap for me was also in bad faith. The previous poster claimed that ICE is in direct violation of the constitution. Then you followed up in claiming that they’re skipping due process. YOU brought that up. Now I ask for this case here what did they skip that would create a situation where a constitutional right was violated?
Do you think they should have been deported?
Define “they”. If I was to enter and remain in Mexico illegally I would expect to be deported. I’ve known many people that have committed very minor offenses and they were jailed for several days then deported. I don’t see how this is any different… except that the US gave the mother years.
What a BS response. “They” are human.
It’s really not.
If you’re claiming that “they” is just the mother. She should be deported, she’s in the country illegally just as I would be if I was in any other country illegally.
If your “they” includes the child, then it’s a bad faith argument as the child was not deported.
But instead of actually communicating clearly, you just want to claim that my response is BS, when it’s not.
“Um actually 🤓 the only logical response is to deprive the child of life saving medical attention or their mother.”
There isn’t room for good faith argument here. I’m done.
Incorrect. Healthcare could already have been addressed by the mother in Honduras. They do have hospitals and cancer treatment facilities.
And nothing stops the mother from re-petitioning correctly to return to the USA, unless she committed some felony crime. So not sure why everyone is under some belief that she would be unable to return.
I feel like very few people who comment here have ever been through the actual process to enter the country properly.
Callous disregard for human life is frankly insane, bit what’s crazier is trying to flex this in to an “I’m smarter than you,” comment
Mother chose to bring child with her… but somehow that fact is me being callous? Child is citizen and could have stayed. The child was not deported and can return.
I think the mother is stupid for making the choice she did. but none the less this is not Trump’s fault. She could have left child here with the “father” if she was so worried about healthcare. She didn’t.
Nothing about my comment was a “I’m smarter than anyone” thing. It’s me calling out shit reporting for making claims that are completely unsubstantiated.
Just to be sure… You’re referring to the four year old child with a terminal illness?
Just wanted to make sure I understood correctly.
In what world is taking a child with cancer away from either her parents or treatment not callous?
The father is illegal so if he showed up competition he’d be arrested and sent away too.
But yeah the mom wanted the kid with her. That’s fine, but they were checking in to their immigrant center and going through the legal steps and still got taken away
Not according to the articles I’ve read. The “father” (quoting because it’s still unconfirmed) was supposedly a citizen. But with reporting as shitty as it is, this could be a bullshit “fact” just like the claim that the 2 year old citizen was “deported”.
ICE had final deportation orders… that usually means that the process was pushed to completion. Court case and all.