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ICE deports 4 yo citizen with cancer

ICE deports 4 yo citizen with cancer

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/14/ice-lawsuit-louisiana-immigration-deportation


@sonhouse said
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/14/ice-lawsuit-louisiana-immigration-deportation
you are telling a lie...the child was not deported

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@Mott-The-Hoople said
you are telling a lie...the child was not deported
You're the boy who cried liar.

😂

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@Mott-The-Hoople said
you are telling a lie...the child was not deported
There is an allegation that they were not given due process - from the article:

The parents “were never given a choice as to whether their children should be deported with them and were prohibited from contacting their counsel or having meaningful contact with their families to arrange for the care of their children”, the lawsuit claims.

The mothers, pseudonymously named as Rosario and Julia, allege they wanted their children to remain in the US but the families were “illegally deported without even a semblance of due process”.

One of the children, named as five-year-old Romeo, was diagnosed with a “rare and aggressive form of kidney cancer” at age two and had been receiving treatment in the US.


It is denied by DHS, though:

The Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to NBC News that US children were not being “deported” and denied that the parents were not given a choice regarding the care of their children before being sent to Honduras.

“Rather than separate their families, ICE asked the mothers if they wanted to be removed with their children or if they wanted ICE to place the children with someone safe the parent designates. The parents in this instance made the determination to take their children with them back to Honduras,” McLaughlin said.



This probably does need to go to trial.

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@Philokalia said
There is an allegation that they were not given due process - from the article:

The parents “were never given a choice as to whether their children should be deported with them and were prohibited from contacting their counsel or having meaningful contact with their families to arrange for the care of their children”, the lawsuit claims.

The mothers, pseudonym ...[text shortened]... n with them back to Honduras,” McLaughlin said.



This probably does need to go to trial.
Nah, people cannot live here illegally. Having a child is not a pass to break our laws.

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@Mott-The-Hoople said
Nah, people cannot live here illegally. Having a child is not a pass to break our laws.
Do any of us think that someone should live in the United States illegally? I have never heard that said. If so, it required changing the law. Libs always want to change our laws.

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@Mott-The-Hoople said
Nah, people cannot live here illegally. Having a child is not a pass to break our laws.
I agree.

However, there is the possibility that the bureaucracy did not do the right things within the letter of the law.

As a note, I support the movement to remove birthright citizenship in the US because giving citizenship to the children of illegals is a foolish policy, just completely illogical particularly in the case of the most prosperous nation in the world.