A 4 -year -old boy and a 7 -year -old boy with American citizenship were deported with his mother to Honduras last week, said the family’s lawyer, which adds to the recent series of US citizens caught on the cross of the hairs of Trump’s offensive.
The children and their mother were put on a flight to Honduras on Friday, the same day as another boy with American citizenship, a 2 -year -old girl, was sent to that country with her undocumented mother.
The lawyers of both families said the mothers were not giving the option of leaving their children in the United States before being deported. In the case of the 2 -year -old girl, whose 11 -year -old brother was also sent to Honduras, a federal judge in Louisiana said Conern Conn, the Administration, had deported the American boy against her wishes, who remembered the country.
But President Trump’s border tsar, Tom Homan, denied that any American child was deported. Speaking about the case of the 2 -year -old girl in “Face the Nation” of CBS on Sunday, Homan said that federal immigration agents cool their mother an option to be deported with or without her son, and that she had the country with her daughter to her discretion.
Children are from two different families living in Louisiana. The mother of the 2 -year -old is pregnant, and the 4 -year -old boy, a child, has a rare form of late stage cancer, families’ lawyers said. They said that the child did not have access to his medications or his doctor while he was in custody with his 7 -year -old sister and mother.
The movements occur when the Trump administration has increased its immigration application and mass deportation efforts. In Florida last week, almost 800 immigrants were arrested in an operation that involved the immigration and customs officers of the United States and the state officials of the law.
Immigration defenders and the American union of civil liberties have condemned the actions of the administration, increasing the conerns of due process.
Gracie Willis, a lawyer from the National Immigration Project that is involved in the case of 2 years, said: “What we saw in ICE in recent days is horrible and disconcerting,” referring to the application of immigration and customs.
But the administration has remained firm. “Having an American citizen son after entering this country is illegally not a free card to get out of jail,” said Homan.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, also defended the immigration agenda on Sunday, insisting that the administration had only deported mothers in boats, not their children.
“The children were with their mothers,” he said in “Meet The Press” of NBC. “Those children are American citizens. They can return to the United States if there is their father or someone here who wants to assume them.”
The National Security Department did not immediately respond to a request for comments on Sunday.
Both families were arrested earlier last week. They were in the intensive supervision appearance program, a probability program that allows people subject to immigration procedures to remain in the country.
The 2 -year -old girl and her mother, along with an 11 -year -old brother who is not a American citizen, were arrested on April 22. The family with the 4 -year -old girl was detanated on Thursday morning, said Erin Hebestyer, her lawyer.
When they were arrested, the families were in New Orleans, the site of their appointments, their lawyers said, adding that they prohibited communicating with the members of the Ohnher family or their lawyers. The lawyers of both families said they could not reach the mothers until after arriving in Honduras.
Mrs. Hebert said she had attended the appointment with the family she is representing, but the family was quickly in custody before she could talk to them. She said she and her team plan to challenge family deportation, but are still evaluating their next steps.
In a brief order issued on Friday of the Federal District Court in the West district of Louisiana, Judge Terry A. Doughty asked why the administration had sent the 2 -year -old girl, identified in the judicial records only as VML, to Honduras with her mother despite the fact that her father had searched, through an emergency request on Thorsday’s day, to prevent her from being downwards.
Judge Doughty, designated from Trump, said he had a “strong suspicion that the government simply deported an American citizen without a significant process,” and established a hearing for May 16 to explore the problem.
“I’ve never seen anything like that,” said Hebert. “There is simply no good faith interpretation for what happened to these children.”
Alan Feuer” Minho Kim and Brandon K. Thorp Contributed reports.
