The Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras alongside her mother and sister on Friday. A federal judge said he suspects the move was carried out “with no meaningful process.”
The girl’s father, also an American citizen, desperately tried to keep her in the United States by petitioning the courts. The government claims the mother wished to take her daughter with her to Honduras, citing a handwritten note allegedly confirming the woman’s intent.
U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty raised skepticism about the note and process by which the girl was deported on Friday.
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“The government contends that this is all OK because the mother wishes that the child be deported with her,” Doughty, a President Donald Trump-appointed judge, wrote. “But the court doesn’t know
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