The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) dropped its lawsuit alleging the department unlawfully deported a U.S. citizen child along with the child’s mother to Honduras. In an announcement Saturday, DHS referred to the suit as “baseless lawfare.”
The ACLU filed the lawsuit after ICE removed Jenny Carolina Lopez-Villela, an illegal alien and Honduran national. According to ICE, Villela chose to leave the United States with her two-year-old child. Shortly after the removal of Villela, the ACLU filed the lawsuit questioning the circumstances of the departure of Villela’s child against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security.
According to the suit, Villela’s child, referred to in court documents as “V.M.L.,” was born on January
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