Three children of US citizens, one with cancer deported to Honduras, say lawyers

Three young children who are US citizens – including one with cancer – were deported to Honduras with their mothers last week, according to advocacy lawyers and families’ attorneys.

One of the children is four years old with stage 4 cancer, who was sent without medication, said a lawyer for the child’s family.

Donald Trump’s border king Tom Homan said the mothers had made the choice of their civil children to be removed with them. “The presence of a child of US citizens does not make you immunized by our laws,” he said, adding that mothers were illegal in the United States.

Trump faced a reaction during his first term of office for a policy that had given thousands of children from their parents.

On Friday, Immigration and Customs Law enforcement officers (ICE) deported both mothers and three children aged two, four and seven, in Honduras from Louisiana, according to a statement from the US Civil Freedom Union (ACLU).

The two families – including a pregnant mother – have lived in the United States for years and have been “deported from the United States in deeply worrying circumstances that cause serious problems with the due process,” Aklu said.

One of the children of US citizens, removed, suffered from metastatic cancer and was deported without the ability to consult doctors, according to the intercession group.

Speaking to reporters at a press conference on Monday morning, Homan said that deportation of families together was better than separating them.

“We keep families together,” he said. “What we did was to remove the children with their mothers who asked the children to go with them. There is a parenting decision.”

Homan rejected the use of the word “deported” to describe the removal of children from the country.

“They were not deported. We do not deport US citizens. Their parents made that decision, not the government of the United States,” he said.

Last week, a federal judge said there was a “strong suspicion” that one of the children deported to Honduras, a two -year -old citizen, was sent with a “no meaningful process”.

The child born by Louisiana and her family members were detained during a routine meeting at the New Orleans Immigration Service on April 22, according to court documents.

Homan, in an interview with CBS, was facing the nation on Sunday, said “the judge should have been proposed a process,” adding that the mother of the two -year -old “had a proper process for a major taxpayer expense and was ordered by an immigration judge after these hearing, so it had a proper process.”

The case has been scheduled for May 19 to turn to the government whether the family has been given a proper process.

The second family was detained on April 24, when ICE refused to respond to the requests of their lawyers and family members to contact them, ACLu said.

White House press secretary Carolyn Levitt on Monday announced the actions to implement the immigration of the administration during his first 100 days.

Levitt said Trump will sign two new executive orders as part of his immigration repression, including one that directs employees to publish a list of places that the administration has identified as “sanctuary cities”.

The term “city of the sanctuary” has been popular in the United States for more than a decade to describe places that limit their help to federal immigration authorities. As this is not a legal term, cities have taken different approaches, some by establishing policies in the law, while others simply change police practices.

Levit also advertised an immigration raid at the underground nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Sunday, where she said employees detain more than 100 undocumented immigrants and seized weapons and drugs.

The drug administration wrote in an X publication that 114 immigrants were arrested and placed “on processing buses and possibly possible deportation.”

Thousands of undocumented immigrants have been detained since Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20.