Harrisburg, PA. (AP)-Immigration and customs officers in recent days have deported the Cuban mother to a 1-year-old girl, dividing them indefinitely-and three children aged 2, 4 and 7, who are US citizens, along with their mothers born of Honduran, said their lawyers on Saturday.
The three cases raise questions about who has been deported and why and come against the backdrop of a battle in the federal courts about whether President Donald Trump’s immigration repression has gone too far and too quickly at the expense of fundamental rights.
The lawyers in the cases describe how women were arrested in routine inspections in ice offices, given almost no opportunity to speak with lawyers or members of their families and then deport within three days or less.
The American Union for Civil Freedoms, a National Immigration Project and several other allied groups have said in a statement that the way icy children who are children who are citizens of the United States and their mothers are “shocking – though increasingly common – abuse of power.”
Gracei Willis of the National Immigration Project said mothers, the least, have no honest opportunity to decide whether they want the children to stay in the United States.
“We have no idea what ICE tells them and in this case what came to light is that ICE did not give them another alternative,” Willis said in an interview. “They did not give them the choice that these mothers only had the opportunity to take their children with them, although they like to offer care in the United States to keep them here.”
The 4-year-old is suffering from a rare form of cancer and the 7-year-old has been deported to Honduras within a day after arresting with her mother, Willis said.
In the case of the participation of the 2-year-old Federal Judge in Louisiana, he raised questions about the deportation of the girl, saying that the government did not prove that it had done it correctly.
The girl’s father’s lawyers insisted that she wanted the girl to stay with him in the United States, while Ice claimed that the mother wanted the girl to be deported to her to Honduras, claiming that she was not fully checked by US county judge Terry Douti in Louisiana.
D, on Friday’s order scheduled a hearing on May 16, “In the interests to dispel our strong suspicion that the government has simply deported a US citizen without a meaningful process,” he writes.
Born from Honduran’s mother-who was pregnant-baby arrested on Tuesday on an exceptional deportment order with a 2-year-old girl and her 11-year-old sister, born of Honduran during a meeting in a New Orleans ice cabinet, lawyers said. The family lived in Baton Rouge.
Doughty called the government attorneys on Friday to talk to the woman while she was in the air on a deportment plane just to be called less than an hour later and said that a conversation was impossible as “she was just released in Honduras.”
At a court institution on Thursday, the father’s lawyers said Ice said she was holding a 2-year-old girl in an attempt to make the father turn. His lawyers did not describe his immigration status, but said he had delegated the lawful custody of his daughters to his daughter -in -law, a US citizen who also lives in Baton Rouge.
Cuba -born woman is deported, leaving behind a child and husband
In the meantime, in Florida, a woman born of Cubin, who is the mother of a 1-year-old girl and the wife of a US citizen, was detained on a planned appointment to register with immigration and customs execution in Tampa, her lawyer said on Saturday.
Heidi Sanchez was kept without any communication and flew to Cuba two days later. She is still breastfeeding her daughter, who suffers from seizures, said her lawyer Claudia Kanizares.
Cañizares said she had tried to submit documents with ICE to challenge the deportation on Thursday morning, but Ice declined to accept it, saying that Sáncez had already disappeared, although Cañizares said he did not think this was true.
Cañizares said she had told Ice that she plans to reopen Sanchez’s case to help her stay in the US legally, but Ice told her that Sanchez could pursue the case while in Cuba.
“I think they follow orders that they have to remove a certain amount of people every day and do not care, frankly,” Kanizares said.
Sanchez is not a criminal and there is a serious case of humanitarian grounds to allow her to stay in the United States, Kanizares said, but Ice does not take into account when she has to meet what the lawyer said was deporting.
Sanchez had an exceptional deportment order arising from a missed hearing in 2019, for which she was detained for nine months, Kanyazarez said. Cuba apparently refused to accept Sanchez at the time, so Sanchez was released in 2020 and was ordered to maintain a regular schedule of ice checks, Kanyazares said.
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