Judge Claims Trump Deported 2-Year-Old American Citizen with “No Meaningful Process” – Here’s What Really Happened

[Valletta]

The Trump Administration did not deport the 2-year-old American citizen. Rather, the government was generous enough to pay for the child’s transportation back to Honduras at the legal custodian/mother’s request.
The American citizen is welcome to return to the US at a future date.

Judge Claims Trump Deported 2-Year-Old American Citizen with "No Meaningful Process" - Here's What Really Happened | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

In a startling claim, a federal judge asserts that a 2-year-old American citizen was wrongfully deported under the Trump administration. Unpack the implications of this controversial ruling and its broader impact.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

The judge should not have tried to prevent the mother, the legal custodian, from taking her child home.

 

[JosephZ]

The article in the OP left out this important bit of information:

A federal judge in Louisiana said the deportation of the child to Honduras with her mother, even though her father had filed an emergency petition, appeared to be “illegal and unconstitutional.”

In a petition filed by the child’s custodian, Trish Mack, on Thursday, her father claimed that when he spoke briefly with Ms. Lopez Villela, he could hear her and the children crying. The father reminded her, the petition said, that “their daughter was a U.S. citizen and could not be deported.”

The father, who was not identified by name in the petition, tried to give Ms. Lopez Villela the phone number for a lawyer, but he claims that officials cut short the call.

The detention of V.M.L. “is without any basis in law and violates her fundamental due process rights,” the petition said. “She seeks this court’s urgent action and asks the court to order her immediate release to her custodian Trish Mack, who is ready and waiting to take her home.”

 

[Valletta]

The article in the OP left out this important bit of information:

A federal judge in Louisiana said the deportation of the child to Honduras with her mother, even though her father had filed an emergency petition, appeared to be “illegal and unconstitutional.”

In a petition filed by the child’s custodian, Trish Mack, on Thursday, her father claimed that when he spoke briefly with Ms. Lopez Villela, he could hear her and the children crying. The father reminded her, the petition said, that “their daughter was a U.S. citizen and could not be deported.”

The father, who was not identified by name in the petition, tried to give Ms. Lopez Villela the phone number for a lawyer, but he claims that officials cut short the call.

The detention of V.M.L. “is without any basis in law and violates her fundamental due process rights,” the petition said. “She seeks this court’s urgent action and asks the court to order her immediate release to her custodian Trish Mack, who is ready and waiting to take her home.”

From the original article: "the government was generous enough to pay for the child’s transportation back to Honduras at the legal custodian/mother’s request."
While the father may wish to separate the mother from her child, no matter how many Democrats may support him the bottom line is he has no legal right to do so.

 

[JosephZ]

From the original article: "the government was generous enough to pay for the child’s transportation back to Honduras at the legal custodian/mother’s request."
While the non-custodial father may wish to separate the mother from her child, no matter how many Democrats may support him the bottom line is he has no legal right to do

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The father isn't a non-custodial parent. The father and mother are still together and he is the one that drove her to the "routine" immigration appointment where she was detained.

 

[Say it aint so]

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The father isn't a non-custodial parent. The father and mother are still together and he is the one that drove her to the "routine" immigration appointment where she was detained.

Gateway Pundit is straight trash. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[Valletta]

The Gateway Pundit is a fake news site. You shouldn't believe anything that's posted on that website.

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The father isn't a non-custodial parent. The father and mother are still together and he is the one that drove her to the "routine" immigration appointment where she was detained.

It's better than the New York Times no matter what a left-wing "fact checker" states. Having worked with the major media trying to get them to not omit key facts or make corrections to their errors, it was summed up best when I was told "You missed the spirit of the story." I see the article didn't state the status of the father, but did properly state she's the custodial mother. They have a letter from her in Spanish.

 

[JosephZ]

I see it didn't state the status of the father, but did properly state she's the custodial mother. They have a letter from her in Spanish.

The Gateway Pundit didn't state the status of the father because it doesn't want it's readers to know the whole story. The truth doesn't fit its agenda.

 

[Valletta]

The Gateway Pundit didn't state the status of the father because it doesn't want it's readers to know the whole story. The truth doesn't fit its agenda.

The major media has a solid anti-Trump agenda. They cover-up so much of the criminality of many of the illegals the Democrats let into our country. They ignored the unjust treatment of conservatives and the political prisoners of the Biden regime.

 

[JosephZ]

VERIFIED PETITION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS AND REQUEST FOR ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

On April 22, 2025, Respondents took custody of V.M.L. along with her mother, Jenny Carolina Lopez Villela, and her eleven-year-old sister, Valeria, when Ms. Lopez Villela was attending a routine check-in with their Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP).

On or around April 22, 2025, around 8:30am, V.M.L.’s mother attended a scheduled check in at the New Orleans ISAP office with V.M.L. and her eleven-year-old sister. On information and belief, at that appointment, ICE officers apprehended V.M.L.’s mother and the two girls.

Roughly an hour after V.M.L.’s mother and the girls went into the ISAP office, V.M.L.’s father, who had taken them to the appointment, received a call from a person inside the ISAP office. That person said the family had all been taken to the immigration office and gave him an address. When he arrived at the address, he saw that it was the ICE Field Office in New Orleans at 1250 Poydras St, Suite 350, New Orleans, LA 70113. ICE officers took him outside and gave V.M.L.’s father a paper saying that V.M.L.’s mother was under their custody. The ICE officers said they could not give him any more information but that V.M.L.’s mom would call him soon.

That afternoon, an attorney representing V.M.L.’s father called and spoke with ICE Officer John Harnett. The attorney communicated that V.M.L. is a U.S. citizen. ICE Officer Harnett stated that V.M.L.’s mother’s deportation was certain and that he believed they were all in a hotel, but would not say where. He was not able to provide a legal call between the attorney and V.M.L.’s mother.

Around 7:30pm the same day, V.M.L.’s father received a call from an ICE officer, who spoke to him for about a minute. The officer said that V.M.L.’s mother was there, and that they did not have much time to speak to each other and that they were going to deport his partner and daughters. V.M.L.’s father was able to speak with his partner for only about or less than a minute. He heard his daughters crying and his partner crying. He reminded ISAP required V.M.L.’s mother to bring both of her daughters to her check-ins, which V.M.L.’s mother had been regularly attending for almost four years.

V.M.L.’s mother that their daughter was a U.S. citizen and could not be deported. The officer overheard and said that V.M.L. would not be deported and explained that V.M.L.’s mother and sister had deportation orders. V.M.L.’s father began to give V.M.L.’s mother the phone number for their attorneys, but before he could, he heard the ICE officer take the phone from her and hang up the call.

Also on April 22, 2025, V.M.L.’s father executed a Provisional Custody by Mandate under Louisiana Revised Statutes § 9:951, temporarily “delegat[ing] the provisional custody of” his two daughters to his U.S. citizen sister-in-law, who also lives in Baton Rouge, LA. The Mandate was notarized by a valid notary public in the state of Louisiana.

On April 22, 2025, at about 9:30pm, an attorney representing V.M.L.’s father sent an email to Respondent Mellissa Harper, expressing concern for his youngest daughter, V.M.L., and identifying key directives that the family’s detention violated. To the email, the attorney attached V.M.L.’s birth certificate and the notarized Provisional Custody by Mandate.

The attorney spoke with Respondent Harper over the phone the next morning, April 23, at which point Respondent Harper began interrogating the attorney as to V.M.L.’s father’s immigration status. The attorney declined to answer any questions about V.M.L.’s father, asking about the location of V.M.L. Respondent Harper refused to honor a request to release V.M.L. to her custodian, stating that it was not needed because V.M.L. was already with her mother. Respondent Harper stated that the father could try to pick her up, but that he would also be taken into custody. Respondent Harper later sent an email further evincing her refusal to release V.M.L. to her custodian, and stating that she would instead require V.M.L.’s father to turn himself in for detention and deportation, indicating that she was detaining V.M.L.––a two-year-old U.S. citizen––in order to induce her father to turn himself in to the immigration authorities.

The attorney sent a follow up email shortly thereafter, reiterating her questions about the whereabouts of V.M.L. Respondent Harper has not replied to that email.

Also on April 23, 2025, Next Friend Petitioner Trish Mack made a series of calls to check on the welfare of V.M.L., her mother, and her sister. She spoke with an officer by phone who informed her that the family was in a hotel, but she was not given their location or any way to contact them.

On April 24, 2025, the mandatary named in the Provisional Custody by Mandate terminated the agreement for personal reasons, and V.M.L.’s father and Next Friend Petitioner Trish Mack executed a new notarized Provisional Custody by Mandate, delegating custodial authority to Ms. Mack. On information and belief, the notary reviewed both children’s birth certificates, the father’s passport, and Ms. Mack’s state issued identification.

 

[Valletta]

VERIFIED PETITION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS AND REQUEST FOR ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

On April 22, 2025, Respondents took custody of V.M.L. along with her mother, Jenny Carolina Lopez Villela, and her eleven-year-old sister, Valeria, when Ms. Lopez Villela was attending a routine check-in with their Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP).

On or around April 22, 2025, around 8:30am, V.M.L.’s mother attended a scheduled check in at the New Orleans ISAP office with V.M.L. and her eleven-year-old sister. On information and belief, at that appointment, ICE officers apprehended V.M.L.’s mother and the two girls.

Roughly an hour after V.M.L.’s mother and the girls went into the ISAP office, V.M.L.’s father, who had taken them to the appointment, received a call from a person inside the ISAP office. That person said the family had all been taken to the immigration office and gave him an address. When he arrived at the address, he saw that it was the ICE Field Office in New Orleans at 1250 Poydras St, Suite 350, New Orleans, LA 70113. ICE officers took him outside and gave V.M.L.’s father a paper saying that V.M.L.’s mother was under their custody. The ICE officers said they could not give him any more information but that V.M.L.’s mom would call him soon.

That afternoon, an attorney representing V.M.L.’s father called and spoke with ICE Officer John Harnett. The attorney communicated that V.M.L. is a U.S. citizen. ICE Officer Harnett stated that V.M.L.’s mother’s deportation was certain and that he believed they were all in a hotel, but would not say where. He was not able to provide a legal call between the attorney and V.M.L.’s mother.

Around 7:30pm the same day, V.M.L.’s father received a call from an ICE officer, who spoke to him for about a minute. The officer said that V.M.L.’s mother was there, and that they did not have much time to speak to each other and that they were going to deport his partner and daughters. V.M.L.’s father was able to speak with his partner for only about or less than a minute. He heard his daughters crying and his partner crying. He reminded ISAP required V.M.L.’s mother to bring both of her daughters to her check-ins, which V.M.L.’s mother had been regularly attending for almost four years.

V.M.L.’s mother that their daughter was a U.S. citizen and could not be deported. The officer overheard and said that V.M.L. would not be deported and explained that V.M.L.’s mother and sister had deportation orders. V.M.L.’s father began to give V.M.L.’s mother the phone number for their attorneys, but before he could, he heard the ICE officer take the phone from her and hang up the call.

Also on April 22, 2025, V.M.L.’s father executed a Provisional Custody by Mandate under Louisiana Revised Statutes § 9:951, temporarily “delegat[ing] the provisional custody of” his two daughters to his U.S. citizen sister-in-law, who also lives in Baton Rouge, LA. The Mandate was notarized by a valid notary public in the state of Louisiana.

On April 22, 2025, at about 9:30pm, an attorney representing V.M.L.’s father sent an email to Respondent Mellissa Harper, expressing concern for his youngest daughter, V.M.L., and identifying key directives that the family’s detention violated. To the email, the attorney attached V.M.L.’s birth certificate and the notarized Provisional Custody by Mandate.

The attorney spoke with Respondent Harper over the phone the next morning, April 23, at which point Respondent Harper began interrogating the attorney as to V.M.L.’s father’s immigration status. The attorney declined to answer any questions about V.M.L.’s father, asking about the location of V.M.L. Respondent Harper refused to honor a request to release V.M.L. to her custodian, stating that it was not needed because V.M.L. was already with her mother. Respondent Harper stated that the father could try to pick her up, but that he would also be taken into custody. Respondent Harper later sent an email further evincing her refusal to release V.M.L. to her custodian, and stating that she would instead require V.M.L.’s father to turn himself in for detention and deportation, indicating that she was detaining V.M.L.––a two-year-old U.S. citizen––in order to induce her father to turn himself in to the immigration authorities.

The attorney sent a follow up email shortly thereafter, reiterating her questions about the whereabouts of V.M.L. Respondent Harper has not replied to that email.

Also on April 23, 2025, Next Friend Petitioner Trish Mack made a series of calls to check on the welfare of V.M.L., her mother, and her sister. She spoke with an officer by phone who informed her that the family was in a hotel, but she was not given their location or any way to contact them.

On April 24, 2025, the mandatary named in the Provisional Custody by Mandate terminated the agreement for personal reasons, and V.M.L.’s father and Next Friend Petitioner Trish Mack executed a new notarized Provisional Custody by Mandate, delegating custodial authority to Ms. Mack. On information and belief, the notary reviewed both children’s birth certificates, the father’s passport, and Ms. Mack’s state issued identification.

These are allegations filed by a woman named "Trish Mack" who is allegedly a friend. We have no idea of the credibility of this person. And you criticize others for bias!

 

[Hans Blaster]

The Trump Administration did not deport the 2-year-old American citizen. Rather, the government was generous enough to pay for the child’s transportation back to Honduras at the legal custodian/mother’s request.
The American citizen is welcome to return to the US at a future date.

Judge Claims Trump Deported 2-Year-Old American Citizen with "No Meaningful Process" - Here's What Really Happened | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

In a startling claim, a federal judge asserts that a 2-year-old American citizen was wrongfully deported under the Trump administration. Unpack the implications of this controversial ruling and its broader impact.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

The judge should not have tried to prevent the mother, the legal custodian, from taking her child home.

There is no "back to Honduras" for the child. The child is an American.

 

[Valletta]

There is no "back to Honduras" for the child. The child is an American.

Once the child is 18 the child can make his or her own decision as to where to live. That's the way it is for all American citizens.

 

[JosephZ]

These are allegations filed by a woman named "Trish Mack" who is allegedly a friend. We have no idea of the credibility of this person.

Actually, it's a petition written on behalf of the petitioners by an attorney and signed under oath. The attorney investigated the case and interviewed several people, not only Trish Mack, before writing it. Is everything in the petition 100% accurate? Probably not, but it does show that the family in all likelihood didn't receive due process and that the father is not a non-custodial parent, as the Gateway Pundit claimed.

 

[Hans Blaster]

Once the child is 18 the child can make his or her own decision as to where to live. That's the way it is for all American citizens.

I wasn't talking about that. I was talking about you characterization of it as taking the child "back to Honduras". The child is not from Honduras.

 

[JosephZ]

They have a letter from her in Spanish.

I have a feeling we're going to learn that the mother was coerced into writing that letter.

 

[Richard T]

Once the child is 18 the child can make his or her own decision as to where to live. That's the way it is for all American citizens.

I am lost here. If the child's father wanted the child to stay, should he be able to have a hearing before the child is sent to Honduras? It sounds like they are poor, never got married, never tried to file a visa for the mother because she probably has to leave the country to file the visa, wait a year or two and show proof of funds, or sponsorship. Only this year do I appreciate Reagan's amnesty. Compassion on illegals that lived here for years and were given a pathway to become legal.

 

[essentialsaltes]

The government says the dad has no rights.
The government says the mom chose to take the kid with her.

The proper place to determine the accuracy of the things 'the government says' is in a court. That appears to be missing in this case.

 

[Belk]

Just like that, parental rights are no longer a thing.

 

[stevil]

Once the child is 18 the child can make his or her own decision as to where to live. That's the way it is for all American citizens.

Are USA citizens under 18 sent to Honduras?

 

[stevil]

The government says the dad has no rights.
The government says the mom chose to take the kid with her.

The proper place to determine the accuracy of the things 'the government says' is in a court. That appears to be missing in this case.

In this Trump admin it seems that the courts don't matter.
The admin makes a claim and takes action based on that claim.
If the courts have a problem with it, they can make a ruling, which then gets ignored, they can file a judgement of criminal contempt and send that through to Trump's DoJ and that will then get ignored.

The MAGAs will continue flooding social media with their claims that the President can do whatever he wants and that the unelected Judges can't obstruct him.

But once the Dems gain power then the MAGAs will flood the social media with claims of governmental overreach.