Welcome to the show and truly tragic, just disgusting news to start with today.

The Trump administration has done it again, except this time they deported a two-year-old American citizen, Manu, as she is known,

Emanueli Borges Santos, born in Florida, American passport, social security number,

American citizen, even if people like Ted Cruz don't like that, but none of that stopped

Donald Trump's deportation machine. They packed her up, along with 94 others, put her on a plane

and shipped them to Brazil. This is a two-year-old who is now stateless, almost like the Tom Hanks movie

where he's stuck in an airport terminal after his country goes into some kind of non-status,

I guess, I don't remember the movie exactly. And she is on a tourist visa in a rural town with no access to health care and no access to school.

Visa's about to expire.

And Brazil, stunned by what happened, is now scrambling to invent a legal category that doesn't exist, something called temporary citizenship, which would

vanish when she turns 18, clearly a move done out of empathy for her situation, but also not

particularly reassuring, since it is something that evaporates when she turns 18. Her parents

undocumented, yes, but asylum seekers who were fleeing violence and corruption in Brazil.

This is another MAGA would like the law to be different, but the law is the law.

And they don't like to acknowledge that if you are seeking asylum and you've done so in the legal process,

you have a temporary status in the United States.

You don't have permanent status, but this is a distinction that seems lost accidentally

or deliberately on so many people.

So they were fighting their case in court, the now two-year-old born in 2022, a judge paused

their deportation, but then ICE summons them,

hands them forms in a language they don't understand, and simply deportes them anyway.

They say they were never told they had a choice about the fate of their daughter.

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