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

JosephZ said:

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.”

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JosephZ said:

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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.

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JosephZ said:

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.

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JosephZ said:

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.

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Hans Blaster said:

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

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