A two-year-old girl was deported with her mother to Honduras on Tuesday after the Trump administration found the mother was in the U.S. illegally. However a jud
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Baltimore Field Officer director Matt Elliston listens during a briefing, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. A two-year-old girl was deported with her mother to Honduras this week after the Trump administration found the mother was in the U.
S. illegally. However, a judge has stepped in after learning the two-year-old was a U.S. citizen born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, according to court documents. The two-year-old girl, referred to in court documents as V.M.L. was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials alongside her mother and 11-year-old sister at a routine immigration check in New Orleans on April 22. They told a court on Thursday that she and her mother were released in Honduras, despite the father providing them with her citizenship documents. The judge's relief order cited that ICE agents potentially violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, arguing that they did not have probable cause to believe VML could or should be removed from the U.S. and that deportation without a guardian or caretaker to represent her is also a violation. The judge ordered a hearing for May 16, which was "In the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process." "The government contends that this is all okay because the mother wishes that the child be deported with her. But the Court doesn't know that," a portion of a separate memorandum read. According to a relief order from a U.S. federal court in Louisiana, the father and his lawyer were told V.M.L. could not be released to him because she was with her mother. He was only able to speak with the mother or daughter for less than two minutes and was unable to establish a plan for their daughter, per court documents. The documents add that the head of ICE New Orleans' field office, Mellissa Harper, told V.M.L.'s father that he could try to pick her up, but that he would also be taken into custody. A later email from Harper allegedly said she would keep V.M.L. in custody until the father turned himself in for separation. After, the father sought to give provisional custody of his daughters to a family friend, but was still not provided with V.M.L's location.
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