2 American civilian children were deported with their mother to Honduras, says lawyer

A 4-year-old and a 7-year-old with American citizenship were deported to Honduras last week, said the family’s lawyer, adding to the recent series of American citizens who were trapped in the cross-hairs of the Trump government’s immigration content.

The children and their mother were put on a flight to Honduras on Friday, on the same day another child with American citizenship, A 2-year-old girlwas sent to that country with her mother without papers.

Lawyers for both families said that the mothers were not given an option to leave their children in the United States before they were deported. In the case of the 2-year-old, whose 11-year-old brother or sister was also sent to Honduras, a federal judge in Louisiana expressed his concern that the government had deported the American child against the wishes of her father, who remained in the country.

But the border of President Trump, Tom Homan, denied that every American child was deported. Speaking of the 2-year-old case on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ on Sunday, Mr. Homan said that federal immigration agents gave her mother the choice or they had to be deported with or without her child, and that she had left the country with her daughter to her own discretion.

The children come from two different families who lived in Louisiana. The mother of the 2-year-old is pregnant, and the 4-year-old, a boy, has a rare form of cancer in the late phase, said the lawyers of the families. They said the boy had no access to his medicines or his doctors while he was in custody with his 7-year-old sister and mother.

The movements come when the Trump remuneration has increased its immigration enforcement and massive deportation efforts. Last week in Florida, Almost 800 immigrants were arrested in an operation involving American immigration and customs enforcement officers and state enforcement officials.

Proponents of immigration and the American Civil Liberties Union have convicted the actions of the administration, which expresses concern about the right process.

Gracie Willis, a lawyer in the national immigration project involved in the case of the 2-year-old, said: “What we saw of ICE in recent days is horrible and astonishing,” referring to immigration and customs enforcement.

But the administration has established. “Getting an American civilian child After you enter this country illegally is not a get-out-of-jail free card,” said Mr. Homan.

A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, Tricia McLaughlin, said on Sunday that it was common for parents who wanted to be removed for their children, and noticed that the 2-year-old mother had made that choice.

“We take our responsibility to seriously protect children and will continue to work with federal law enforcement to ensure that children are safe and protected,” said Mrs. McLaughlin.

Both families were held earlier last week during routine check-ins with ice. They were in the intensive supervisory program, a probation program with which people can remain immigration procedures in the country.

The 2-year-old and her mother, together with an 11-year-old brother or sister who is not an American citizen, were held on April 22. The family with the 4-year-old and 7-year-old was held on Thursday morning, said in Hebeste, their lawyer.

When they were held, the families were taken away from New Orleans, the place of their agreements, their lawyers said that they were forbidden to communicate with other family members or their lawyers. Lawyers for both families said they could not reach the mothers until they arrived in Honduras.

Mrs. Hebert said she had attended the appointment with the family she represents, but the family was quickly taken in custody before she could talk to them. She said she and her team are planning to challenge the deportation of the family, but still evaluate their next steps.

In a short command that was issued on Friday at the federal court in the western district of Louisiana, asked Judge Terry A. Doughty why the administration had sent the 2-year-old-all in the court reports as VML identified Honduras with her mother, although her father had searched for a foreign request on Thursday.

Judge Doughty, a Trump -appointed, said that he had a “strong suspicion that the government simply deported an American citizen without meaningful trial” and has set a hearing before 16 May to explore the issue.

“I’ve never seen anything like that,” said Mrs. Hebeert. “There is simply no divine interpretation for what happened to these children.”

Alan Feuer” Minho Kim” Hamed Aleziz And Brandon K. Thorp contributed reporting.