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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)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Have you considered that the child’s mother might have options for healthcare in Mexico? That they chose to do this on purpose?

That they purposely got deported to Honduras because they have options for healthcare in Mexico? Pardon?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (6 children)

That stuck in your head, but not the deportation of terminal US children

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The child wasn't deported. The mother was, and the mother chose to bring her child with her. The child was not deported.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

Edit: op continues to be full of shit

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/women-children-citizens-deported-honduras

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Edit: op continues to be full of shit

Not at all. She had deportation orders, which means that the immigration court came to an conclusion. Your article continues to echo the same things I've been saying which is the mother was deported, not the children. And that the mother wrote a letter stating she wants to bring her child with her.

It's absurd to believe that she had no decision to make there. Very odd that the "family's lawyers" can know what the mother wants at all if she wasn't allowed to coordinate anything don't you think?

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