US: ICE deports 3 American children, say lawyers – DW – 04/27/2025

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In case no read any articles on it, the mothers were illegal, these kids were anchor babies, and when the moms got deported, they had the choice of taking their kids with them or giving them up. The mothers made the decision to keep the kids.
- The government has no proof the mothers made that decision because they never had any contact with a lawyer or a court, and when one father managed to call his wife they cut off the call in less than a minute, as soon as he tried to tell her his lawyer's number. The only option the mother was given besides taking her baby with her was to hand it over to the same ICE agents who had kidnapped them, and we all know how well that went last time.
- anchor babies
  Lovely term, that. What it really means is that the children were born in the United States of America and are therefore AMERICAN CITIZENS and have all the rights that all other American citizens have. The simple fact that you don't like that provision of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America is completely irrelevant. This is now at least four American citizens that have been illegally deported without being given any semblance of the due process that the very same Constitutional Amendment requires be given to all RESIDENTS (legal or otherwise) of the united states, including their allegedly undocumented mothers.
  And, "in case no read" the link I've provided above, this will save you the effort of clicking. The relevant parts are highlighted for you too.
  All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
  ICE and Trump have clearly and unarguably violated the Constitutional rights of both the parents and children here.
  Edit for clarity
- The article itself notes that the mothers were not given adequate time and given the complexity of having children who are legally US citizens, it can be readily argued that due process was denied in these cases:
  One of the US children removed from the country has "a rare form of metastatic cancer" and was deported without medication or medical consultations, the ACLU said.
  Gracie Willis of the National Immigration Project said the mothers weren't given a fair opportunity to decide whether they wanted the children to remain in the United States. Willis said the 4-year-old and the 7-year-old were deported to Honduras within a day of being arrested with their mother.
  
  What due process do you expect for a baby? 10 years of lawyers going back and forth?
  
  THE SAME AS FOR EVERYONE IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM YOU ASS
  If they’re in court, they deserve, and are required by law, to have proper representation!
  
  God Republicans are dumber than a box of rocks.
  Yes the toddlers get due process with a lawyer representing their case IN COURT. It's not hard to understand, a fourth grader could understand this concept.
  Which btw have you read over your own posted source on immigration and how unlawful presence is a civil infraction and not a criminal one? Or do you still not understand your own citation?
  
  I agree that if they're found to be here illegally, they should be given the choice of whether their American children should remain with them when they're deported.
  I think this should only occur after they receive due process.
  The way to avoid delays in judgment is not to do away with due process. That's trying to cure the disease (dysfunction) by treating the symptoms.
  The way to solve it is by dramatically increasing the number of immigration judges to help reach resolutions quickly. Thousands more. That's a constructive change, not a destructive change. One is long-lasting; one only lasts as long as this administration. Both parties have failed at dramatically expanding the immigration courts like they should have, because this is a political issue they can campaign on.
  But constructive changes are still the right way to improve the system.
- People aren't illegal
  
  Nah. They become illegal immigrants the moment they immigrate illegally. I think it's pretty self explanatory.
  
  Borders are imaginary. People aren't illegal.
  Your bigoted hateful views should be illegal, but that would violate amendment 1.
  
  You can't have a welfare state and no borders, that's not how that works, you'll just attract every free loader on the planet and the system would collapse.
  
  Thanks for confirming that you're lazy as well as bigoted.
  
  I'm lazy because I know lazy people exist? Explain that logic to me
  
  The fact that you jump to that projection of others first, screams that is what you would do if you had the chance. Projection at its finest.

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