Harrisburg, PA, (AP)-Agents for Immigration and Customs Law enforcement in recent days have deported the mother of a Cuban born of a 1-year-old girl, dividing them indefinitely, and in another case a 2-year-old girl who is a US citizen, along with her mother, born of Honduran, say their lawyers.
Both cases raise questions about who has been deported and why they come against the backdrop of a battle in the federal courts about whether the repression of President Donald Trump’s immigration has come too far and too quickly at the expense of fundamental rights.
The lawyers in both cases describe how their customers were arrested in routine inspections in the icy offices, given almost no opportunity to talk to lawyers or members of their families and then deport within two or three days.
A Federal Judge in Louisiana raised questions about the deportation of a 2-year-old girl, saying that the government did not prove that she had done so correctly.
The US Civic Freedom Union said in a statement that this case and another in New Orleans, which includes deportation of children who are US citizens, are “shocking -macar and increasingly common -use of power.”
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.
The Honduran-born mother was arrested on Tuesday with a 2-year-old girl and her 11-year-old sister, born of Honduran during a meeting of an ice office in New Orleans. Both the mother and the 11-year-old girl have obviously had exceptional deportment orders. 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, saying that a conversation was impossible because she was just released in Honduras.
In a lawsuit on Thursday, 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.
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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