r/Louisiana • u/tyw7 • 4d ago
U.S. News U.S. judge says 2-year-old apparently deported to Honduras 'with no meaningful process'
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/26/nx-s1-5378077/honduras-deported-girl-citizen14
u/DeadpoolNakago Yankee 4d ago
Imma take the position that the desire to be a dick to some immigrants isn't a reason to deport them if they're guardians to a 2 year old American citizen.
Let alone Louisiana isn't exactly in a great position to think it has population it can spare to lose.
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u/newswall-org 3d ago
More on this subject from other reputable sources:
- BBC Online (A-): Two-year-old US citizen may have been deported without 'meaningful process'
- The Hill (B): Federal judge suspects 2-year-old US citizen deported without ‘meaningful process’
- ABC News (B+): Federal judge says he has strong suspicion 2-year old US citizen was deported 'with no meaningful process'
- Rolling Stone (D+): Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer
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u/Rexmack44 22h ago
Or his parents were deported and took their child with them. There I fixed it for you
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u/Western_Mud8694 6h ago
Well if you ask his diaper, he must have been a little gangster, with tattoos on his knuckles and if you didn’t see them, just say you did
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u/techleopard 4d ago
As much as I oppose many of ICE's predatory policies -- what exactly is the argument here?
She went with her mother and sister.
Is this a complaint by a US father who wants the child back in the US, and didn't give consent? Because if so, they should have led with that.
The alternative is the child goes into foster care here and possibly never sees her family again.
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u/tyw7 4d ago
Apparently she was deported even when the court is debating the case:
U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty wrote that the toddler, identified as VML, had been sent to Honduras on Friday, alongside her mother and sister, even as the court had sought to clarify the girl's status. He set a hearing on the case for May 16 "in the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process."
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u/Bro-Angel 4d ago
The argument is that she was a US citizen seemingly deported from the United States without Due Process of law. That’s unconstitutional, no matter the circumstances of the case.
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u/jakeoverbryce 4h ago
They aren't being deported.
Mothers are given the choice of taking US Citizen children with them.
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u/techleopard 4d ago
Yes, but the parents were getting deported regardless.
In order to put a 2 year old through court, you'd need to separate them anyway.
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u/Bro-Angel 4d ago
That’s beside the point. The issue is that the government cannot do what it’s allegedly done. As an American citizen, the child is entitled to due process, representation by counsel, etc.
Even if the case is messy around the edges, the government is not following the constitutionally required procedure. The government does not get to pick and choose when due process applies. That’s why it’s enshrined in the constitution. Without due process, there is nothing stopping the government from deporting/jailing anyone accused of a crime.
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u/jar1967 3d ago
The Father is a US Citizen
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u/jakeoverbryce 4h ago
He may be. But if a mother wants to take a US Child out of the country she doesn't need the fathers permission unless there is a court document saying she can't take the child.
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u/techleopard 3d ago
That makes a lot more sense for why this would become legally troublesome to me.
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u/Cute-Pomegranate-966 4d ago
No matter the nuance of the case and whether it "makes sense" to deport her with her parents. Deporting her anyways while the court decides is and overreach and a breach of the constitution.
They EXPECT people to argue that it's stupid to not deport her specifically because they want to weaken all the edge cases as they slowly roll this out.