ICE : – According to their attorneys on Saturday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have deported the Cuban-born mother of a 1-year-old girl, separating them indefinitely, along with three U.S.-citizen children, ages 2, 4, and 7, and their Honduran-born mothers.
In the midst of a legal battle in federal courts over whether President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement has gone too far and too quickly at the expense of fundamental rights, the three instances raise concerns about who is being deported and why.
Attorneys involved in the cases explained how the ladies were deported in three days or fewer after being arrested during routine check-ins at ICE offices and given almost no chance to consult with attorneys or their families.
The deportation of U.S.-citizen children and their mothers by ICE was described in a statement by the American Civil Liberties Union, National Immigration Project, and several other connected organizations as a “shocking — although increasingly common — abuse of power.”
At the very least, the moms were not given a fair chance to determine whether they wanted the children to remain in the United States, according to Gracie Willis of the National Immigration Project.
In an interview, Willis stated, “We don’t know what ICE was telling them, and in this case, what has come to light is that ICE didn’t give them another alternative.”
“They didn’t give them a choice; even though there were caring caregivers in the United States who could have kept their children here, these mothers only had the option to take them with them.”
Within a day of their arrest alongside their mother, the 4-year-old, who has a rare kind of cancer, and the 7-year-old were deported to Honduras, according to Willis.
A federal judge in Louisiana questioned the girl’s deportation in the case involving the 2-year-old, stating that the government had not provided sufficient evidence to support its claim..
U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty in Louisiana refuted ICE’s argument that the mother had intended for the girl to be deported with her to Honduras, while the girl’s father’s attorneys maintained that he wanted the girl to stay in the United States with him.
“In the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process,” Doughty said in a Friday ruling, setting a hearing on May 16.
During a check-in visit at an ICE office in New Orleans on Tuesday, the pregnant Honduran-born mother, the 2-year-old child, and her 11-year-old Honduran-born sister were all arrested on a pending deportation order, according to attorneys. Baton Rouge was where the family called home.
While the woman was flying on a deportation plane on Friday, Doughty called government lawyers to talk with her. Less than an hour later, he was called back and informed that a chat was not possible since the woman “had just been released in Honduras.”
In a court filing on Thursday, the father’s attorneys said that ICE had stated that it was detaining the 2-year-old girl in an attempt to persuade the father to surrender.
His attorneys stated he had lawfully given custody of his girls to his sister-in-law, a U.S. citizen who also resides in Baton Rouge, but they did not elaborate on his immigration status.
ICE : Deportation of a Cuban-born woman leaves her husband and child behind
Meanwhile, in Florida, a Cuban-born woman, the wife of a U.S. citizen and mother of a 1-year-old girl, was arrested Saturday at a planned check-in at a Tampa-based Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, according to her attorney.
Two days later, Heidy Sánchez was flown to Cuba after being detained without communication. According to Claudia Cañizares, her attorney she continues to breastfeed her kid, who has seizures.
Cañizares stated that she attempted to submit documentation to ICE on Thursday morning to challenge the deportation, but ICE rejected it, claiming Sánchez had already left. However, Cañizares stated she doesn’t believe that to be the case.
According to Cañizares, she informed ICE that she intended to reopen Sánchez’s case in order to assist her in lawfully remaining in the United States; however, ICE informed her that Sánchez may continue the case while she was in Cuba.
“Honestly, I don’t care,” Cañizares remarked, “I think they’re following orders that they need to remove a certain amount of people by day.”
According to Cañizares, Sánchez has a compelling humanitarian case for being allowed to remain in the United States and is not a criminal, but ICE isn’t taking that into account when it needs to meet what the attorney claimed were deportation standards.
According to Cañizares, Sánchez was held for nine months in 2019 after missing a hearing, which resulted in an outstanding deportation order.
According to Cañizares, Sanchez was freed in 2020 after Cuba reportedly declined to accept him at the time. He was instructed to keep up a consistent check-in routine with ICE.
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