Judge Demands Answers After U.S. Citizen Child Deported: A federal judge wants the Trump administration to explain why a two-year-old U.S. citizen was deported to Honduras with her mother and older sister.
Lawyers for the girl say she, her mother, and her 11-year-old sister were detained when they showed up at an ICE office on Thursday for a routine appointment. When the girls’ legal custodian, a U.S. citizen, went to federal court seeking their release, administration lawyers claimed the mother wanted her daughters to go with her.
Judge Terry Dougherty asked to speak with the mother about her wishes but was told they had already been released in Honduras. Dougherty, a Trump appointee, ordered a hearing in three weeks “in the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.”
Source: raialkhalij + aljazeera