Trump’s administration seemed to deported a two -year -old American citizen “without a meaningful process,” the federal judge said on Friday because the child’s father tried to return it to the United States.
The judge of the US district Terry A. Doughty said that a girl who was referred to as “VML” was deported with her mother in court documents.
“It is illegal and unconstitutional deporting, detaining deportation or recommending a US citizen deportation,” Doughty said.
He planned to hear on 19 May “In order to distract our strong suspicion that the government was just deporting a US citizen without a meaningful process.”
On Tuesday, VML was detained by immigration and customs enforcement with her mother Jenny Carolina Lopez Villel and an older sister when Villela took part in a routine appointment in the New Orleans office, according to Trish Mack, who said her father asked to act as a child.
According to Mack, when his father spoke briefly with Villele, he heard her and the children cry. During this time, according to the court document, he reminded her that their daughter was a US citizen “and could not be deported”.
However, the prosecutors said that Villel, who has legal links, said Ice that she wanted to keep the girl’s care and let her go with her to Honduras. They said a man who claims that his father VML was, despite the request, did not do so.
“Therefore, it is in the best interest of VML to remain in the legal custody of her mother,” Trump administration said on Friday. “Furthermore, VML is not endangered by an irreparable harm because he is an American citizen.”
VML is not forbidden to join the US, the prosecutors added.
The Ministry of Internal Security and the Ministry of Justice did not respond immediately to the request for comment.
The American Union of Civil Freedoms described the case of VML – and other similar – as “shocking … abuse of power”.
“These actions are in direct violations of their own and informal ICE directives that entrust the coordination for the care of smaller children with willing caregivers – regardless of immigration status -” he said.
US President Donald Trump, whose presidential campaigns focused strongly on immigration, said that at the beginning of this month he wants to deport some violent criminals who are American citizens in Salvadorian prisons.
The comments raised concerns about the proposal concerning the advocates of civil rights and many lawyers are considered unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court ordered Trump’s administration that had already deported hundreds of people to Salvador to “make it easier and make” the return of Maryland’s resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia, sent to the country on March 15, despite the order that protects him.
