April 26, 2025.

Early yesterday morning, immigration and customs enforcement, or ICE, sent three U.S. citizens,

age two, four, and seven from Louisiana, including one with stage 4 cancer, to Honduras when they

deported their mothers. The three are children of two different mothers who were arrested while

checking in with the government as part of their routine process for immigration proceedings.

The women and their children were not permitted to speak

to family or lawyers before being flown to Honduras. The cancer patient was sent out of the country

without medication or consultation with doctors, although, according to Charisma Matarang and

Lorena O'Neill of Rolling Stone, ICE agents were told of the child's medical needs.

The government says the mothers opted to take their U.S. citizen children to Honduras with them.

But as Emmanuel Felton and Megan Vasquez of the Washington Post noted, because ICE refused to let the women talk to their lawyers,

there is only the agent's word for how events transpired. I also deported Heidi Sanchez, a Cuban-born

mother of a one-year-old who was still breastfeeding, leaving the U.S. born child in the U.S.

with her father, who was a U.S. citizen.

Like the women flown to Honduras, Sanchez was detained when she showed up at a scheduled

check-in with ICE. In March, ICE agents set four U.S. citizens, including a 10-year-old with

brain cancer, to Mexico, when they deported their undocumented

parents. In May 23, then presidential candidate Donald J. Trump released a video promising that on

day one of a new presidential term, he would issue an executive order that would end birthright citizenship.

He claimed that the understanding that anyone born in the United States is automatically a citizen

is based on a historical myth and a willful misinterpretation of the law by the open borders advocates.

He promised to make clear to federal agencies that under the

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