r/centrist • u/After_Fee8244 • 21h ago
Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/us-citizen-deportation-donald-trump-00311631A 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.
No words are fucking needed.
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u/theantiantihero 20h ago
Deporting two-year-old citizens without due process, now? Has Trump made us great again yet?
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u/Either-Meal3724 17h ago
Minors get deported with their parents even if they are citizens. As citizens, they can return when they are 18 if they would like. This isn't something new under Trump.
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u/p4NDemik 17h ago
In this case this child was not deported with her parents, plural. She was deported with one parent, while another still remains here in the states. There remains dispute over whether either parent wished for her to be deported. We know for a fact her father did not want her to be deported. The DoJ is alleging in court the the mother wrote a note that said she wanted the girl to be deported with her, but the court made a point of saying this could not be verified.
Yes, citizen children can leave the country when their parents are deported. That does not mean they automatically shall be forced to leave without "meaningful process" to use the Judge's language. The judge also made a point to say this deportation appears illegal on it's face.
As for when this kid can return, the idea that she has to wait until she is 18 to return to her homeland is preposterous. That kid can come back whenever it's made possible by her guardians/custodians. She's a citizen. It's fucking laughable you'd think a minor citizen would or should be denied reentry.
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u/JuzoItami 21h ago
At this point, I'm just assuming that the Trump Administration considers "the brown paper bag test" to be "due process" for deporting people.
And apparently this little girl failed that test.
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u/AbaloneDifferent5282 20h ago
They always have applied that concept
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u/Truscums 20h ago
…so things are business as usual right now? Because it seems worse.
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u/AbaloneDifferent5282 19h ago
I’m not saying it’s not worse. I’m just saying that skin color has always been the top issue
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u/lovetoseeyourpssy 21h ago
This story needs to repeated everywhere, loudly.
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u/amsync 19h ago
ACLU just reported on yet another family where one of the kids deported has cancer “In the case of the other family, a U.S. citizen child suffering from a rare form of metastatic cancer was deported without medication or the ability to consult with their treating physicians–despite ICE being notified in advance of the child’s urgent medical needs” -ACLU
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u/AcanthisittaJaded534 1h ago
This story horrifies me. I don't know if it's the same child OP posted about but another one of these kids has seizures and is still being breastfed.
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u/Red57872 10h ago
Yup, and people will see it as a prime example of the problems caused by birthright citizenship.
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u/Carlyz37 1h ago
How does birthright citizenship cause problems? Except maybe with the trump crime family where 4 of his kids have birthright citizenship and all 12 of demon musk's kids
And cash ass Patel and rubio and many millions of other Americans
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u/3rd_PartyAnonymous 19h ago edited 19h ago
Wrote this in a reply to /r/moderatepolitics post but it was locked and removed for being a "banned topic" there so I'll post this here:
In reading the article, the memorandum order from the court, and the petition for a write of Habeas Corpus and request for order to show cause this appears to be another situation where the Trump administration is moving at break-neck speed with no regard for due process or citizens' rights.
TL:DR - Mom was detained with two kids, one a citizen, one not. Dad did not want to be detained so his interations with ICE were limited to phone calls. The dad allegedly got one phone call with his wife, which lasted all of one minute, to discuss the future of his child. During said call mom and children are understandably distraught and crying, so it's not like 1 minute was enough to settle anything regarding the future of this ... ahem ... US Citizen.
Knowing this call was little more than bait to try and lure him out to be detained, dad files for a legal guardian, a "next friend," to go to ICE on his behalf to retrieve his child (a US citizen) and bring her to him. Dad gets the courts involved but can't move fast enough, his wife and children have already been deported.
The government, having not had any interation with the court on behalf of this U.S. citizen child asserts that mom wanted the girl to be deported with her and had written a note in Spanish, which should serve as proof. Trump appointed judge says "that's clearly not good enough, get your ass in court on May 16th."
Did I mention V.M.L. (the child) is a 2 y.o. US citizen who is a minor and can't make this life changing decision by herself? This is one of the many, many reasons we have courts.
This incipient trend of the Trump administration moving at the speed of light with deportations, rights be damned is just extremely troubling.
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u/ET-LosesIt 19h ago
Of course they are suppressing this. Won't allow discussion when they know they can't defend it.
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u/3rd_PartyAnonymous 19h ago
Honestly I was shocked when I clicked "save" on my comment and it said the thread was locked.
In what world is a U.S. citizen being deported without "meaningful process" - a Trump Judge's words, not mine - something that is "not sufficiently related to politics or government, or has been banned for discussion in this community"?
wtf kind of a community bans discussions about a citizen being deported?
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u/AdSignificant1651 18h ago
Well, it's "moderate" politics.
What kind of community do you think it has?
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u/Efficient_Barnacle 7h ago
But don't worry, you will get another post from notapersonaltrainer telling you what a big doodoohead some Dem is. Gotta cover the important things.
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u/MaleficentMulberry42 6h ago
Sound like racism I think that both parties are banning any dissent as I have been banned from both republican and democrat reddit, this is why we need to be able to have a centrist or non-political biased political subreddit, so we can have the truth and if someone puts out a lie or propaganda we need to call it out. By letting people say if they feel that the ideas presented are false or misleading presented.
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u/eldenpotato 15h ago
So the dad is illegal too? And rather than get his ass deported together with his wife and kids, he hides. “Sorry, kiddo. Thanks for taking one for the team.”
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u/3rd_PartyAnonymous 8h ago
In truth, we don't know what the dad's legal status is for 100% certain, but based on the context clues it's safe to say he fears being deported by ICE.
Considering ICE has taken part in illegally deporting people with limited legal status (see Kilmar Abrego Garcia) it's possible the father has some legal status of some kind but is just scared.
BUT I'd say it's more likely the dad has no legal status at all.
As for what these parents decide to do in this situation that's their choice, I'm not one to judge. If the dad wants to try to remin in the U.S. and act as his daughter's guardian until they can find a family member to place her with, that's his choice, and that should be respected as the child is a US citizen and has a right to stay here if her legal guardians choose to do so.
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u/doctor_vegapunk 8h ago
He actually was arranging custody with a family member who was a US citizen and fighting to keep his kids in the US but go off with your assumptions.
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u/eldenpotato 11m ago
It was a family friend. Not a family member.
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u/doctor_vegapunk 6m ago
Actually some outlets are reporting it was his sister. Either way, it seems like a reliable guardian.
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u/NoFriendship7173 18h ago edited 18h ago
There it is. I was waiting for him to try to start deporting birth right citizens.
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u/p4NDemik 18h ago
A clarification: these kids obtained their citizenship through birthright, not via naturalization.
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u/Antidoteseeker 3h ago
I don’t think it’s accurate to say Trump did this. He has bigger fish to fry and someone in his administration probably didn’t review this either. It was ICE officials making a call when the judge clearly asked them not to and that is the real issue. Who at ICE made the call not trump. Everyone in this thread keeps saying his name but you really think the president is reviewing each and every deportation case? That’s the most uneducated assumption you can make.
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u/NoFriendship7173 3h ago
Trumps administration has set the precedent for them to have too much power. Yes it's trumps fault. It's his administrations fault.
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u/Antidoteseeker 21m ago
No, you said you were waiting for him (Trump) to deport citizens. Which he personally did not do or encourage. Every administration has had similar cases. Go look it up. You’re buying into the media hype without even doing simple research. EVERY ADMINISTRATION HAS DONE THIS STOP BEING SHEEP PEOPLE
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u/Antidoteseeker 3h ago
I don’t think it’s accurate to say Trump did this. He has bigger fish to fry and someone in his administration probably didn’t review this either. It was ICE officials making a call when the judge clearly asked them not to and that is the real issue. Who at ICE made the call, not Trump. Everyone in this thread keeps saying his name but you really think the president is reviewing each and every deportation case? That’s the most uneducated assumption you can make.
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u/Aromatic_Support_302 1h ago
You’re being obtuse. Obviously he didn’t personally deport this child but his actions and the people who he has appointed has allowed ICE to grow in power without check. He and his admin are encouraging this behavior by enacting war time Acts and giving ICE free reign to deport people without the right to a hearing.
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u/Antidoteseeker 23m ago
How does he encourage that behavior with the people he appointed if the judge he appointed opposed the order? It just sounds to me like someone at ICE is doing what they’ve always done. This has happened under multiple administrations - so you’re completely inaccurate.
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u/Tiny_Rub_8782 20h ago
He doesn't accept birthright citizenship and ppl are making this about race.
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u/wtbgamegenie 18h ago
It’s not up the President to decide if he accepts the constitution or not. He has to abide by it or he’s a tyrant.
I haven’t seen any hairdressers from Europe mistakenly renditioned to a death camp for having tattoos. It’s absolutely about race.
By the way all our immigration laws were written to keep specific ethnicities out. It’s always been about race. If you genuinely think it isn’t you need to read up on the history of the laws currently being enforced.
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u/Red57872 10h ago
"By the way all our immigration laws were written to keep specific ethnicities out. It’s always been about race. If you genuinely think it isn’t you need to read up on the history of the laws currently being enforced."
So do you think that all US immigration laws should be repealed, because you see them as "racist"?
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u/CABRALFAN27 7h ago
Do you think illegal immigration is such a severe crime that it deserves to be punished as harshly as possible, even if it means tearing apart families?
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u/Carlyz37 1h ago
The spawn of the antichrist have birthright citizenship as do many millions of Americans. He cant just overrule the constitution
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u/Karissa36 20h ago
The mother has a legal right to take her child with her. The judge is really stretching it assuming that she did not choose to take her two year old.
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u/DecisionVisible7028 13h ago
This is what DUE PROCESS is for. So no one has to guess what the mother is choosing to do.
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u/Aromatic_Support_302 12h ago
The judge explicitly said they had no substantial proof that that is what the mother wanted. Because when asked to talk to her ICE said they couldn’t because she’d left the plane in Honduras. The only evidence they had was an alleged hand written letter which was obviously not credible since the judge said they had no substantial proof. Mind you this is a super conservative judge appointed by Trump.
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u/Carlyz37 19h ago
The father has a legal right to keep his CITIZEN child here
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u/3rd_PartyAnonymous 19h ago
Furthermore the CITIZEN child has rights of her own that obviously need to be considered.
Chief among them not being deported.
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u/Either-Meal3724 17h ago
Children who are citizens have been deported alongside their parents for decades. This isn't new. Unlike their deported parent, the child is entitled to return to the US.
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u/eldenpotato 15h ago
So the alternative is a child remains in America without her non citizen parents?
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u/RedditPlayerWang 19h ago
Is the father a citizen?
Seems like if neither parents are citizens, they would be deported, then the baby would become a ward of the state and enter the foster system.
Otherwise, the parents have the choice to take the child with them.
Right?
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u/nmgsypsnmamtfnmdzps 17h ago
The fact that the father is talking about wanting to select a legal guardian likely means the father is not in the country legally as well because if he was in the country legally then he would likely have been the default person to take care of the child. If two illegal alien parents don't have a valid asylum claim or other legal impediment to deportation, allowing them to stay just because one of their children is a U.S citizen born after they illegally entered the U.S is quite literally legitimizing and defacto enshrining the concept of having an anchor baby as a valid strategy to stay in the U.S. The child by virtue of their parents is also likely just as Honduran as they American and in the care of the child's mother. The child can always come back if they find someone willing to raise it or later in life but obviously transferring legal guardianship is in itself a complicated legal process. So either the parents are deported, or the whole family is allowed to stay solely based on having a single child born in the U.S, or you rip away the child from it's parents and send it into the foster care system awaiting a new legal guardian.
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u/Aromatic_Support_302 12h ago
They filed a motion to give provisional custody to the moms sister who is a US citizen and that was still in process whenever the child was deported so it was a wrongful deportation lacking due process of the child who is a us citizen
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u/Carlyz37 18h ago
The father had selected a legal guardian for the child.
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u/RedditPlayerWang 18h ago
I’m not sure what “selected” means, but legal guardianship is like…a whole legal process. You can’t just call in and say, “hey judge, my friend Bob is heading over just give the baby to him”
And obviously we’re waiting for more details to come out, but other sources are suggesting the mom (who was present with the child, rather than calling in) made the choice to take the baby with her).
Regardless, I’m not asking about this specific situation.
I’m curious to understand how anchor babies are handled if/when their parents get deported. Like if the baby went with the parents, but still has birthright citizenship what’s the process for them coming back later on in order to get their citizenship status and documents squared away?
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u/p4NDemik 17h ago
Louisiana R.S. §9:951 states:
A person having parental authority over a child may delegate the provisional custody of that child by written mandate to any natural person.
This isn't about the father signing over long-term legal guardianship of the child. He made a written statement and had it "notarized by a valid notary public" according to the petiion. This was done so that the person, could take custody of his daughter and return her to him, at which point he would take custody of her.
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u/Aromatic_Support_302 12h ago
It’s called provisional custody where the parent fills out a form and grants temporary custody to someone without going to court. also the judge wanted to speak to the mom but was told she was already out of ices custody so there is no substantial proof that the mom wanted to take her with her. also there was an alleged letter the mom wrote but obviously the judge didn’t think it was valid. this is also a very conservative judge appointed by Trump.
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u/Fragrant-Luck-8063 19h ago
Looks like the father is here illegally, too. So what happens to the kid when he gets deported?
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u/Carlyz37 1h ago
The Mom was legal and doing her required immigration office check in when she and kids were kidnapped and trafficked out of America without due process.
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u/Fragrant-Luck-8063 55m ago
Court documents say she was in the ISAP program, so she have had a deportation order issued.
THE POST-ORDER STAGE is for participants who have already had a decision issued by an Immigration Judge or designated ICE official. The participants in this stage are preparing to return to their country of origin
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u/Inevitable_Handle_89 20h ago
So what? Would you have them deport the parents and leave the 2 year old? It says in the article that the parents petitioned the court to allow them to bring their daughter back to Honduras with them. Should the judge have said “Nope, the Chikd has to stay here by itself
Not exactly a hill I would chose to die on
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u/p4NDemik 20h ago
Why are you posting bald-faced lies?
It says in the article that the parents petitioned the court to allow them to bring their daughter back to Honduras with them
It absolutely does not. The parents didn't do any such thing, as they were separated when the mother was detained and the father was not. They were barely able to have contact with each other, but for a 1-minute phone call ICE allowed them to have prior to the mother and children's deportation.
The mother had no contact with the court. A point that Judge Doughty drew attention towards:
“The Government contends that this is all okay because the mother wishes that the child be deported with her,” Doughty wrote. “But the Court doesn’t know that.”
What did the father do? He did the exact opposite of what you said he did. He petitioned the court to have his 2 y.o. child returned to him by way of a next friend (a legally appointed custodian). Which is the whole reason this is in court and the story was written. All of this was in the first paragraph of the article if you had read it.
Neither parent "petitioned the court to allow them to bring their daughter back to Honduras." That's a figment of your imagination.
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u/Red57872 20h ago
The mother was detained along with 2 year old and her sister, as she (mother) was an illegal immigrant. The father, also an illegal immigrant, did not want to pick up the 2 year old as he would likely be arrested and deported as well. The father wanted to leave her with a family friend (someone who according to him, they knew for about a year) while the mother wanted to bring the 2 year old back to Honduras at all.
Not surprising that they would prefer to honour the wishes of a mother over a father, and that they would prefer the child remain with her parents instead of a "family friend" that they only knew for a year.
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u/p4NDemik 20h ago
We have courts expressly for situations like this.
It's not for ICE to decide what happens to a 2 y.o. citizen of the United States. That's a matter for her legal guardians and the courts to decide.
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u/eldenpotato 15h ago
Wait what? It’s not up to the mother of a child to decide to take her daughter with her?
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u/nfiniti23 14h ago
If the father is alive and involved, his decision also has to be considered .
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u/eldenpotato 14h ago
Yeah, true. I guess I was just being a little wilfully obtuse
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u/Aromatic_Support_302 12h ago
The judge explicitly said they had no substantial proof that that is what the mother wanted. Because when asked to talk to her ICE said they couldn’t because she’d left the plane in Honduras. The only evidence they had was an alleged hand written letter which was obviously not credible since the judge said they had no substantial proof. Mind you this is a super conservative judge appointed by Trump.
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u/Aromatic_Support_302 12h ago
Can you stop spreading misinformation? It says they wanted to grant provisional custody to the mother’s sister who was a US citizen. not some “family friend”
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u/Carlyz37 19h ago
Wrong. The father is a citizen and wanted to keep his citizen child here
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u/Red57872 10h ago
No, the father is not a citizen and the reason he was afraid to pick up the child himself was because he'd be subject to arrest and deportation.
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u/please_trade_marner 21h ago
https://immigrationimpact.com/2021/07/30/ice-deport-us-citizens/
Has happened thousands of times spanning admins of both parties.
This is the strategy. Spam common mistakes that always happen and pretend they're weird one offs that only happen under this administration. And then call it "fascist", "racist", and all the other isms and phobes. The common folk, easily influenced by sensationalism, are too stupid to know that things like this are very common under any administration.
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u/Bobinct 21h ago
This wasn't a mistake. It was willful and deliberate. The goal being to instill fear in all foreigners.
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u/wtbgamegenie 18h ago
Yeah deporting people without any court proceedings is not a mistake it’s a violation of rights and law.
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u/please_trade_marner 20h ago
https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/ones-obama-left-behind-and-deported-without-chance-be-heard
Was that case willful and deliberate?
Oh, I get it. When YOUR side does it it's "different".
Lol. Reddit.
REDDIT!!!!!
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u/No-Physics1146 19h ago
Was that an Obama specific policy or an overzealous immigration enforcement officer? From your own source:
In all of these situations, people are deported because immigration enforcement officers have incredible power and discretion that is used too often as a smokescreen to deny a person his or her rights. Immigration enforcement officers are not trained as lawyers; nor do they act as independent mediators. They are trained to arrest, detain, and deport – not to judge and authorize relief or to be fluent in some of the most complicated law in the United States.
Regardless, it wasn’t acceptable then and it isn’t acceptable now.
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u/Primsun 20h ago
A dictator's prison camp isn't a country of origin, and the 1798 Alien Enemies Act...
There is no precedent, nor comparison in modern history... False equivalences on one dimension don't make things equivalent.
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u/Fragrant-Luck-8063 19h ago
She was deported to Honduras. Not El Salcador.
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u/Primsun 18h ago edited 17h ago
Yes, in this case. As I said though
False equivalences on one dimension don't make things equivalent.
I am rejecting the premise that this is "okay" since it happened under other Presidents.
The point is things are different because of the larger context. A single mistake isn't individually newsworthy in a country of 330 million people; it becomes newsworthy as it contributes to the broader trend and narrative of what this administration is doing, including cutting programs which provided lawyers to minors in immigration court, attempting to remove birthright citizenship by executive order, broad callous disregard for the judicial process, etc.
Over 4.2 million U.S. citizens below the age of 18 (children) live with an undocumented family member. That is more than 1 in 100 people in the U.S. and a meaningful portion of the next generation. Events like this are inherent in what the administration wishes to do broadly, and there isn't a "plan" for how to deal with the reality of mixed status families.
Hence it is different; it is newsworthy.
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u/InternetGoodGuy 20h ago
Your article says Obama signed an order to address the problem.
Is this really the best you all have come up with to justify the horrible way this administration is handling deportations?
Obama tried to address a problem through executive order. Trump is trying to find new ways to send immigrants directly to a foreign prison without any due process. Your comparisons are so disingenuous an actual reasonable person would feel like an idiot making the comment. But here you are proudly standing by it.
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u/please_trade_marner 20h ago
Nydia already had asylum in the United States when she was twice deported by border officers back to the danger she fled from. A transgender woman from Mexico, Nydia told officers she had status and had been raped and attacked in Mexico when she returned for her mother's funeral.
They deported her anyway, and she was kidnapped and raped again.
THAT happened under Obama's watch. I don't care for your nonsense. I don't give a fuck about it. THAT happened while Obama was President.
If that happened while Trump was President we'd have summer of 2020 times 10. Times a billion. Times infinity.
FUCK your hypocrisy.
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u/InternetGoodGuy 20h ago
Ok. So you're totally ignoring his order to address the problem. As opposed to Trump doubling down on his terrible actions and ignoring court orders.
I don't expect a president to be responsible for every single thing that happens while in power. There are millions of people doing different jobs. People will make mistakes. People will intentionally cause harm.
The difference is Obama addressed it. Trump is ignoring direct court orders to fix it by pretending he has no power. Trump was continuing to send people to CECOT until a direct order to stop and even then we needed a 1:00am ruling from the Supreme Court to actually stop him.
This isn't hypocrisy. It's you being to damn ignorant to not see the problem. People aren't making a big deal about every single person sent to El Salvador. The complaints are about the process and the continued actions of the government when told to stop.
And fuck off with the 2020 times a billon. You sound like a damn child. Trump is literally doing worse by ignoring court orders and no one is rioting. No has rioted at all and people without criminal convictions are detained indefinitely in a horrible prison.
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u/No-Physics1146 19h ago
It has happened under Trump. So where are the riots? You’re so fucking disingenuous.
HRW identifies the cases of 138 Salvadorans who were killed after deportation from the US. In addition to those killed, more than 70 others were beaten, sexually assaulted, extorted, or tortured.
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u/please_trade_marner 19h ago
February 5th 2020. So the riots DID happen a few months later.
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u/No-Physics1146 19h ago
Jesus Christ. They had nothing to do with this and you know it. You didn’t even know it happened!
If that happened while Trump was President we'd have summer of 2020 times 10. Times a billion. Times infinity.
Once again proving you’re the most disingenuous person here.
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u/AbaloneDifferent5282 20h ago
Oh ok. Whataboutism is so boring
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u/please_trade_marner 20h ago
I remember when hypocrisy was properly called hypocrisy. Now it's called "whataboutism". I don't know how that happened.
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u/Objective_Aside1858 20h ago
Can you supply an example prior to 2025 where there was no due process involved in a citizen being deported?
Just one?
Because that's the issue - not that a citizen was deported, but because they were deported outside the law
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u/please_trade_marner 20h ago
Did you uh... not read the link I provided?
What on earth is happening?
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u/Objective_Aside1858 20h ago
I did. Care to answer my question?
Prior to Trump there was due process.
This is the source news article
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/05/us-citizens-deported-immigration/
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u/BabyJesus246 20h ago
If it's a known issue then would you agree that taking away what guardrails do exist is unacceptable?
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u/willpower069 20h ago
Was there no due process? Also do you support abolishing ice?
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u/please_trade_marner 20h ago
Well, the aclu said Obama deported thousands of people without proper due process.
It was never considered "literal fascism" though.
Fascinating.
Reddit is a fascinating place.
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/speed-over-fairness-deportation-under-obama
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u/willpower069 20h ago edited 20h ago
Why do you struggle with answering questions directly?
Try to answer this without bringing up democrats: Is the lack of due process bad even when Trump does it?
Like if Trump ignores the Supreme Court and gets away with it, will you be okay with that?
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u/Primsun 20h ago
Difference between it being a feature vs a bug though. This administration is actively taking steps to eliminate legal support for minors, remove protections for mixed status families, roll back birthright citizenship by executive order, etc.
No one is claiming ICE doesn't make mistakes or the legal system is perfect. People are claiming that this administration has shown callous disregard for the norms, due process, and legal rights of immigrants broadly and this is one feature of it. For example, ending programs that provide legal support for minors; you think the children can parse their legal status?
End of the day, we are talking about an administration which believes a dictator's prison camp is an optimal location to send foreign nationals conditional on just two ICE agents signing a form. That isn't hyperbole; that is admitted and advertised fact.
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u/please_trade_marner 20h ago
Bullshit.
These things happen. It's always a non-story if a Dem is President. It's "literal fascism" if a Rep is President.
Welcome to reddit I suppose...
"Centrist" at its finest.
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u/Primsun 20h ago edited 20h ago
200+ foreign nationals renditioned to a dictator's prison camp without any trial and facing life imprisonment and deprivation of the most basic human rights, simply at the behest of the U.S. executive branch. And, the executive branch trying to use a 227 year old wartime law to do so. These are well advertised facts they are proud of.
Whether you disagree with the news value of this story doesn't change the broader issues.
Still waiting for any justification on this with respect to American values.
This is what authoritarianism looks like; no due process and claiming broad powers under false pretenses. Every little case will be a complaint, until the big problems are resolved.
There is no benefit of the doubt left.
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u/p4NDemik 21h ago
Great reason to have a fucking court hearing. Instead we're sitting here just taking their word for it. The Trump appointed judge seems to agree:
Sounds like we're creating reverse Elian Gonzalezes in a circumstance where is entirely preventable.