Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with 'no meaningful process'

[Nevilledog]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/us-citizen-deportation-donald-trump-00311631

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https://archive.li/hpF5v

A federal judge is raising alarms that the Trump administration deported a two-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with “no meaningful process,” even as the child’s father was frantically petitioning the courts to keep her in the country.

U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, said the child — identified in court papers by the initials “V.M.L.” — appeared to have been released in Honduras earlier Friday, along with her Honduran-born mother and sister, who had been detained by immigration officials earlier in the week.

The judge on Friday scheduled a hearing for May 16, which he said was “in the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.”

The child, whose redacted U.S. birth certificate was filed in court and showed she was born in New Orleans in 2023, had been with her mother and sister during a regular immigration check-in at the New Orleans office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday. Officials there detained them and queued them up for deportation.

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[Lovie777]

1. Oh my GOD.......................

[sakabatou]

2. There's no bottom with this administration

[Deuxcents]

3. There is no bottom for my disdain I have for this administration and those who carry out his cruel policies

[SunSeeker]

4. Sickening. Pure evil. Heads should roll for this kind of shit.

She's a US citizen for fuck's sake.

[Ms. Toad]

5. Now there are three - one with a rare metastatic brain cancer.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/ice-deports-3-u-s-citizen-children-held-incommunicado-prior-to-the-deportation

[LW1977]

6. Disgusting!

Trump is a vile piece of shit who can’t enter Hell soon enough!

[spanone]

7. I can only imagine what they put people through

[Grins]

8. Sing it, everybody!! "And I'm proud to be an American..."

There’s a reason the world HATES US!

[reACTIONary]

9. NYT, No Paywall

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/us-citizen-deported.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ck8.PIvv.J17hbUiakPBN&smid=url-share

A federal judge in Louisiana said the deportation of the child to Honduras with her mother, even though her father had filed an emergency petition, appeared to be “illegal and unconstitutional.”

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