The family lawyer said that a 4 -year -old was deported and US citizenship was deported alongside their mother to Honduras last week, adding to the last series of American citizens who were arrested in the Hair Cross from the Trump administration’s migration campaign.
The children and their mother were placed on a trip to Honduras on Friday, on the same day another child with American citizenship, A two -year -old girlHe was sent to that country with her undocumented mother.
Lawyers told both families that mothers had not been given an option to leave their children in the United States before they were deported. In the case of the two -year -old, whose 11 -year -old brother was sent to Honduras, a federal judge in Louisiana expressed concern that the administration had deported the American child against the desires of her father, who remained in the country.
But President Trump, the border, Tom Human, denied that any American child was deported. Speaking of a two -year -old issue to “confront the nation” to CBS on Sunday, Mr. Human said that federal immigration agents gave her mother a choice to deport her child or without him, and that she left the country with her daughter according to her discretion.
Children from two different families lived in Louisiana. Family lawyers said that the mother of the two -year -old is pregnant, and she has a 4 -year -old boy, who has a rare form of late stage cancer. They said that the boy could not reach his medications or doctors while he was detained with his 7 -year -old sister and mother.
The movements come at a time when the Trump administration has increased efforts to enforce immigration and mass deportation. In Florida last week, Nearly 800 immigrants They were arrested in an operation that included American immigration and customs staff and law enforcement officials.
The advocates of immigration and the American Civil Liberties Union condemned the actions of the administration, which raised concerns about the due legal procedures.
“What we have seen from the past few days is terrifying and confusing,” said Greisi Willis, a lawyer for the National Migration Project, which is participating in the case of the two -year -old migration.
But the administration stood firm. Mr. Human said: “Having an American citizen after entering this country illegally is not a prison -free card,” said Mr. Human.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio also defended the immigration agenda on Sunday, and insisted that the administration had only deported mothers in both cases, not their children.
“Children went with their mothers.” “These children are American citizens. They can return to the United States if there is their father or someone here wants to bear them.”
The Ministry of Internal Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday.
Both families were held earlier last week during the routine examination with ICE. They were in the emergence of intense supervision, a test program that allows people who are subject to immigration procedures to stay in the country.
Erine Heppert, the lawyer, said that the two -year -old girl and her mother, along with a 11 -year -old brother, not an American citizen, were arrested on April 22.
When they were detained, the families were transferred hours from New Orleans and their appointments, as their lawyers said, adding that they are prohibited from communicating with other family members or their lawyers. Lawyers told both families that they could not reach mothers until after they arrived in Honduras.
Ms. Hepbert said she had attended the appointment with the family she represented, but the family was being held quickly before she could talk to them. She and her team said to be planning to challenge the deportation of the family, but they are still holding their next steps.
In a summary order issued on Friday by the Federal Provincial Court in the West Province in Louisiana, I asked Judge Terry a. Dutti is why the administration sent a two-year-old player-he was determined in court records only in the name of VML-to Honduras with her mother, although her father sought, through an emergency petition on Thursday, to prevent her from sending her abroad.
Judge Dutti, one of the appointed Trump, said he had “a strong doubt that the government has just deported an American citizen without any meaningful operation”, and set a hearing on May 16 to explore this issue.
“I haven’t seen anything like him,” said Ms. Heberret. “There is no good explanation for what happened to these children.”
Alan Fuwirand Minho Kim and Brandon K. Thorb The reports contributed.
