Three Children Who Are U.S. Citizens Deported Against Their Families' Wishes

The Trump administration has officially begun deporting U.S. citizens out of the country. But, even worse, some of the first citizens affected have been young children - forced out of the country with no understanding of what is happening, and with no ability to protest.

And one of those citizens - a 4-year-old - has a rare form of metastatic cancer that is already at Stage 4. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) forced him out of the country anyway, without even letting him consult with his doctors or bring his life-saving medication with him.

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Three children who are 2, 4, and 7 years old were recently reported to Honduras along with their mothers, both of whom were born in Honduras. ICE has claimed that it only deported the three young citizens because their mothers decided to bring their children with them.

But more and more evidence is showing that this is not the case.

At least one of the children has a father who is still in the United States, and who pleaded with ICE to let him keep custody of his 2-year-old child instead of deporting her. ICE refused. Instead, the agency told a judge that the mother had supposedly handwritten a note saying she "will bring my daughter ... with me to Honduras."

The father said he could hear his children and partner crying during a brief phone call, but that ICE officials pulled away the phone before he could finish sharing contact details for their attorneys.

But even the judge - a conservative Trump appointee - was not convinced by ICE's narrative. In court, he pushed back, saying he has a "strong suspicion that the government just deported a US citizen with no meaningful process." He continued, saying that the government "contends this is all okay because the mother wishes that the child be deported with her ... But the court doesn't know that."

Now, the mothers are speaking out and making it clear that, no, they did not choose to have their children deported. According to them, ICE agents never gave them a choice. This means that ICE has been flat-out lying - to the courts and to the public.

We have already seen immigrants with protected statuses being disappeared, as in the case of the gay hairdresser Andry José Hernández Romero and the Maryland father of an autistic son, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Now, the Trump administration is escalating its attacks to include actual U.S. citizen.s

When will you be next? We have to speak out now before this keeps getting worse!

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