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)
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.
The Fifth and Fourteenth amendments of the United States Constitution are the ones that contain the due process clauses. That little bit that says no one shall be “deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.”
The fact that you cherry picked the Constitutional part but cut the bit about ICE being in violation of the courts and the laws is kind of telling. They all go hand in hand.
I’m not sure why you’re arguing in bad faith but I won’t engage with you further and I’d encourage anyone else do the same.
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.