Horrifying and baffling’
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have deported three American children aged 2, 4 and 7 along with their undocumented immigrant mothers, their lawyers said on Saturday.
The deportations, which took place from the southern US state of Louisiana, come amid the Trump administration’s push to carry out mass expulsions of undocumented migrants.
The National Immigration Project said the deportations were hastily ordered and carried out in the early hours of Friday
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US: ICE deports 3 American children, say lawyers
Immigration officials in the United States have in recent days deported three children aged 2, 4 and 7 who are US citizens along with their Honduran-born mothers, their lawyers said.
People whose faces are blurred in the back of a van and an officer in a Police ICE jacket looks at them
The Trump administration promised the deportation of illegal migrants but US citizens have also been deportedImage: The Wichi
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have deported three American children aged 2, 4 and 7 along with their undocumented immigrant mothers, their lawyers said on Saturday.
The deportations, which took place from the southern US state of Louisiana, come amid the Trump administration’s push to carry out mass expulsions of undocumented migrants.
The National Immigration Project said the deportations were hastily ordered and carried out in the early hours of Friday.
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‘Horrifying and baffling’
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a separate statement that the deportations are “illegal and inhumane.”
One of the US children removed from the country has “a rare form of metastatic cancer” and was deported without medication or medical consultations, the ACLU said.
Gracie Willis of the National Immigration Project said the mothers weren’t given a fair opportunity to decide whether they wanted the children to remain in the United States.
“What we saw from ICE over the last several days is horrifying and baffling. Families have been ripped apart unnecessarily,” she said. “We should be gravely concerned that ICE has been given tacit approval to both detain and deport US citizen children.”
Willis said the 4-year-old and the 7-year-old were deported to Honduras within a day of being arrested with their mother.
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