{"id":17535,"date":"2025-04-29T17:41:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17535"},"modified":"2025-04-29T17:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:42:21","slug":"judge-says-2-year-old-us-citizen-appears-to-have-been-deported-with-no-meaningful-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17535","title":{"rendered":"Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with \u2018no meaningful process\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“A federal judge is raising alarms that the Trump administration deported a two-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with \u201cno meaningful process<\/a>,\u201d even as the child\u2019s father was frantically petitioning the courts<\/a> to keep her in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, said the child \u2014 identified in court papers by the initials \u201cV.M.L.\u201d \u2014 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.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Trump administration officials said in court that the mother told ICE officials that she wished to take V.M.L. with her to Honduras. The filing included a handwritten note in Spanish they claimed was written by the mother and confirmed her intent. But the judge said he had hoped to verify that information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Government contends that this is all okay because the mother wishes that the child be deported with her,\u201d Doughty wrote. \u201cBut the Court doesn\u2019t know<\/em> that.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The court battle ignited Thursday, when lawyers for the family filed an emergency petition in the Western District of Louisiana seeking V.M.L.\u2019s immediate release from ICE custody and a declaration that the girl\u2019s detention had been unlawful. The petition was filed under the name of Trish Mack, who the lawyers indicated had been asked by V.M.L.\u2019s father to act as the child\u2019s custodian and take her home from ICE custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lawyers for the guardian told the court that V.M.L.\u2019s father had been attempting to contact the girl\u2019s mother to discuss plans for their child but ICE officials denied him the chance to have a substantive phone call. He says ICE allowed the two to speak for about one minute on Tuesday, while the mother was in ICE custody, but that they were unable to make any meaningful decisions about their child.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/25\/us-citizen-deportation-donald-trump-00311631<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“A federal judge is raising alarms that the Trump administration deported a two-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with \u201cno meaningful process,\u201d even as the child\u2019s father was frantically petitioning the courts to keep her in the country.
\nU.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, said the child \u2014 identified in court papers by the initials \u201cV.M.L.\u201d \u2014 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.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Trump administration officials said in court that the mother told ICE officials that she wished to take V.M.L. with her to Honduras. The filing included a handwritten note in Spanish they claimed was written by the mother and confirmed her intent. But the judge said he had hoped to verify that information.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Government contends that this is all okay because the mother wishes that the child be deported with her,\u201d Doughty wrote. \u201cBut the Court doesn\u2019t know that.\u201d”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The court battle ignited Thursday, when lawyers for the family filed an emergency petition in the Western District of Louisiana seeking V.M.L.\u2019s immediate release from ICE custody and a declaration that the girl\u2019s detention had been unlawful. The petition was filed under the name of Trish Mack, who the lawyers indicated had been asked by V.M.L.\u2019s father to act as the child\u2019s custodian and take her home from ICE custody.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for the guardian told the court that V.M.L.\u2019s father had been attempting to contact the girl\u2019s mother to discuss plans for their child but ICE officials denied him the chance to have a substantive phone call. He says ICE allowed the two to speak for about one minute on Tuesday, while the mother was in ICE custody, but that they were unable to make any meaningful decisions about their child.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/25\/us-citizen-deportation-donald-trump-00311631<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2137,169,87,2108,838,1638,26,493,25,201],"class_list":["post-17535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-birthright-citizenship","tag-children","tag-citizenship","tag-deport","tag-deportation","tag-due-process","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-rule-of-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17538,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535\/revisions\/17538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}