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pnwmom

(110,324 posts)
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 09:47 PM Aug 2025

Child with stage 4 cancer deported by ICE despite being US citizen, lawsuit says

A 4-year-old boy’s ongoing care for stage 4 kidney cancer was interrupted when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers illegally deported him, his sister and mother “without even a semblance of due process,” attorneys for the family say.

Though they are U.S. citizens and were born in Louisiana, the boy and his 7-year-old sister were deported to Honduras along with their 25-year-old mother, who is a Honduran citizen, on April 25, according to a federal lawsuit filed in the Middle District of Louisiana on July 31. The filing uses pseudonyms for the family, referring to the brother and sister as Romeo and Ruby and their mother as Rosario.

Before their deportations, Romeo, now 5, was receiving “life-saving” treatment at a New Orleans children’s hospital for his “rare and aggressive form” of cancer, following his diagnosis at age 2, a complaint says.

“As a direct consequence of ICE’s unlawful conduct, Romeo was deprived of much-needed continuity in his treatment, and he has faced substantial health risks due to his inability to access emergency specialized care and the routine critical oncological care that was available to him in the United States,” his family’s attorneys wrote in the complaint.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article311666872.html#storylink=cpy
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Child with stage 4 cancer deported by ICE despite being US citizen, lawsuit says (Original Post) pnwmom Aug 2025 OP
Most of trumps victims will be faceless. Like with COVID 19. Turbineguy Aug 2025 #1
Melania should write a letter to her husband newdeal2 Aug 2025 #2
Ice Ice Kristi should be the other defendant in this suit! n/t ReRe Aug 2025 #3
The sheer cruelty and heartlessness of trump and his MAGA morons is simply staggering. mwb970 Aug 2025 #4
Is God still blessing America? twodogsbarking Aug 2025 #5

newdeal2

(5,614 posts)
2. Melania should write a letter to her husband
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 12:24 AM
Aug 2025

Similar to the one she "wrote" to Putin about abducting children in Ukraine. She can just re-use that one and replace Putin with Donald.

mwb970

(12,162 posts)
4. The sheer cruelty and heartlessness of trump and his MAGA morons is simply staggering.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 11:35 AM
Aug 2025

This is evil in its purest, most noxious form.

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