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

[stevil]

As I said this is something that Trump has been considering.

I very much doubt the Trump administration is going to pay for USA children to go on overseas holidays.

 

[Yarddog]

The U.S. government had no right to take the child away from her mother, a citizen of a foreign country.

They didn't take the woman before a judge to ensure that she needed to be deported. The child has rights. The father is a legal resident of the US. The child could have been awarded to his custody.

The Trump administration is racking up violations of US law at record levels.

 

[JosephZ]

As far as I know there was no custody lawsuit filed while they were in the U.S.

There was no custody lawsuit filed because the mother and father of the child are still together. They are still a family and are expecting a third child to be born in a few months. Again, the Gateway Pundit lied when it stated that the father was a non-custodial parent.

Since the father and mother are still together and there has never been a custody lawsuit filed, the father has an equal right in determining whether or not the child should remain in the United States. The deportation should have been paused until there could be an appropriate hearing before a judge with both the mother and the father present to determine what's best for the child.

 

[JosephZ]

This mother wanted her child to go with her. We don't need to pick a fight with the Honduran government.

ICE provided a letter they claim is from the mother that states:

“I, Jenny Carolina Lopez [Villela], will bring my daughter, Valentina Mendez Lopez, with me to Hondruas.”

The mother doesn't say in that statement that she "wanted" to take her child with her. It's a declaration that doesn't provide information one way or the other about what her desire was.

 

[Oompa Loompa]

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.

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

Kinda sounds like another Elian Gonzales situation.

 

[Hans Blaster]

It's a national security policy.

No it is not. That's the lie they tell you, but it is not. It is just nativism writ large.

 

[wing2000]

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

Yep.

Valletta has yet to acknowledge the father's rights...or the fact that the father filed an emergency petition to stop the deportation - as cited by the judge.

Parents of American children are free to take them with them to countries around the world.

Parents are allowed to take their children where they wish until the child is 18. If I want to go to Canada and take my children with me the U.S. government has no right to detain me or the kids.

A parent (singular) does not have any right to take their child out of the country.
But I suspect you know that already.

 

[JosephZ]

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

ICE provided a letter they claim is from the mother that states:

“I, Jenny Carolina Lopez [Villela], will bring my daughter, Valentina Mendez Lopez, with me to Hondruas.

The mother doesn't say in that statement that she "wanted" to take her child with her. It's a declaration that doesn't provide information one way or the other about what her desire was.

Gracie Willis, an attorney with the National Immigration Project, who represents the 2-year-old, said in an interview on MSNBC that “at every single point ICE denied anybody the ability to know where this family was, denied everybody the ability to contact with them and communicate with them.” She said the child’s father “barely had any opportunity to speak with the mother about what was best for the child before an ICE officer hung up the phone as he tried to give her the number for an attorney.”

ICE has provided a one-page note that it says was written by the mother, who is pregnant, and shows she gave her consent for the 2-year-old to be deported. The note is written in Spanish, with redactions in the top and bottom right corners. The note says, “I will take my daughter [her name] with me to Honduras,” with the date and time and the mother’s name.

“The statement does not show that this was her desire. It doesn’t show that she’s consenting to this. She was just writing down a fact. And after having spoken with her, it’s clear that she was felt forced to do this. She felt absolutely forced to write this,” González said.

Attorneys dispute Trump officials' claim that deported moms willingly took their U.S. citizen children

In new details, attorneys say ICE explicitly told one mother to bring her children with her to a check-in and knew in advance that another mother’s child had Stage 4 cancer.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[stevil]

“The statement does not show that this was her desire. It doesn’t show that she’s consenting to this. She was just writing down a fact. And after having spoken with her, it’s clear that she was felt forced to do this. She felt absolutely forced to write this,” González said.

Doesn't this make you feel proud to be a MAGA!?
Maybe change the slogan to MAWA - Making America White again.

 

[Laodicean60]

I would expect that many Honduran parents, whose child is an American citizen, would prefer that child remain in the United States where they have access to better education, healthcare, and opportunity.

I watched a cable news interview where Tom Homan said the mother signed paperwork to have the child taken with her.

 

[JosephZ]

I watched a cable news interview where Tom Homan said the mother signed paperwork to have the child taken with her.

I quoted what the mother wrote in post #44.

 

[Laodicean60]

Maybe change the slogan to MAWA - Making America White again.

No need to make racist slurs.

 

[Valletta]

Gracie Willis, an attorney with the National Immigration Project, who represents the 2-year-old, said in an interview on MSNBC that “at every single point ICE denied anybody the ability to know where this family was, denied everybody the ability to contact with them and communicate with them.” She said the child’s father “barely had any opportunity to speak with the mother about what was best for the child before an ICE officer hung up the phone as he tried to give her the number for an attorney.”

ICE has provided a one-page note that it says was written by the mother, who is pregnant, and shows she gave her consent for the 2-year-old to be deported. The note is written in Spanish, with redactions in the top and bottom right corners. The note says, “I will take my daughter [her name] with me to Honduras,” with the date and time and the mother’s name.

“The statement does not show that this was her desire. It doesn’t show that she’s consenting to this. She was just writing down a fact. And after having spoken with her, it’s clear that she was felt forced to do this. She felt absolutely forced to write this,” González said.

Attorneys dispute Trump officials' claim that deported moms willingly took their U.S. citizen children

In new details, attorneys say ICE explicitly told one mother to bring her children with her to a check-in and knew in advance that another mother’s child had Stage 4 cancer.

www.nbcnews.com

If I tell a customs official I am taking my child to England there is no legal reason to stop me because I may lack enough "desire." If the mother does not want the child returned to the United States the father must bring a civil lawsuit against the mother in Guatemala.

 

[JosephZ]

If I tell a customs official I am taking my child to England there is no legal reason to stop me because I may lack enough "desire." If the mother does not want the child returned to the United States the father must bring a civil lawsuit against the mother in Guatemala.

The mother didn't want the child to be taken to Honduras to begin with. She wanted her to remain in the United States.

 

[Mayzoo]

Not a lawyer, but truly curious.

If the mother did not have the legal right to take the child out of the country, then the child would be considered kidnapped. If that is the case, did the US aid and abet a criminal in the commission of a crime?

 

[Belk]

I watched a cable news interview where Tom Homan said the mother signed paperwork to have the child taken with her.

Did you read the note? Sounded a whole lot like something written as a CYA for an agency that just deported a US citizen with no legal over site and without the fathers permission.

 

[wing2000]

If I tell a customs official I am taking my child to England there is no legal reason to stop me because I may lack enough "desire." If the mother does not want the child returned to the United States the father must bring a civil lawsuit against the mother in Guatemala.

...still igorning the emergency petition filed by the child's father.

 

[essentialsaltes]

...still igorning the emergency petition filed by the child's father.

Maybe he's a DHS employee.

 

[stevil]

If I tell a customs official I am taking my child to England there is no legal reason to stop me because I may lack enough "desire."

Would they then reimburse you for your child's ticket to England?
Does it matter if it is a return ticket?

 

[stevil]

No need to make racist slurs.

I'm trying to make sense of the situation.
A poster is trying to make out that this is normal. Govt buying a USA child citizen's ticket to a foriegn country.
I'm just wondering, would they buy the ticket of a white child going to a foriegn country, can someone provide any examples?

Or is this a Stephen Miller special?