Immigration and customs agents (ICE) have in recent days deportee Mother of Cuban origin of a one -year -old girl, separating them indefinitely and, in another case, a two -year -old girl who is an American citizen with her mother of Hondurienne origin, according to their lawyers.
Both cases raise questions about who is expelled, and why, and come in the middle of a battle in the federal courts to find out if the president Donald Trump Immigration repression went too far and too quickly to the detriment of fundamental rights.
Lawyers in both cases described how their customers were arrested during routine checks to ICE Offices, given practically no possibility of speaking with lawyers or family members, then expelled within two or three days.
A federal judge from Louisiana raised questions about the expulsion of the two -year -old girl, saying that the government had not proven that this had done it correctly.
The American Civil Liberties Union, National Immigration Project and several other Allied groups declared in a press release that this case and another in New Orleans which implies expelled children who are American citizens are a “shocking abuse – although more and more current – of power”.
The lawyers of the girl’s father insisted that he wanted the daughter to stay with him in the United States, while Ice argued that the mother wanted the daughter to be expelled with her in Honduras, said that the American district judge was not entirely verified by the district judge Terry Doughty in Louisiana.
Doughty, in an order on Friday, planned an audience on May 16 “in the interest of dissipating our strong suspicion that the government has just exported an American citizen without a significant process,” he wrote.
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The Hondurian mother was arrested on Tuesday with the two-year-old girl and her 11-year-old sister of Hondurienne origin during a recording appointment in an ice desk in New Orleans. The 11 -year -old mother and girl apparently had exceptional expulsion orders. The family lived in Red Baton.
Doughty called government lawyers on Friday to talk to the woman when she was in the air on an expulsion plane, to be recalled less than an hour later saying that a conversation was impossible because she had just been released in Honduras “.
In a judicial file on Thursday, the father’s lawyers said that the ice said that she was holding the two -year -old girl in order to get the father to go. His lawyers did not describe his immigration status, but said that he had legally delegated his daughters to his sister-in-law, an American citizen who also lived in Baton Rouge.
In Florida, for his part, a woman born in Cuban who is the mother of a one-year-old girl and the wife of an American citizen was detained during an appointment recorded in an immigration and customs office in Tampa, said her lawyer on Saturday.
Heidy Sánchez was detained without any communication and stole in Cuba two days later. She is still breastfeeding her daughter, who suffers from convulsions, said her lawyer, Claudia Cañizares.
Cañizares said that she had tried to file documents with Ice to challenge the expulsion on Thursday morning, but Ice refused to accept it, saying that Sánchez had already left, although Cañizares said that it did not think it was true.
Cañizares said that she had told Ice that she planned to reopen the case of Sánchez to help her stay legally in the United States, but Ice told her that Sánchez could continue the case while she was in Cuba.
“I think they follow the orders they need to withdraw a certain amount of people during the day and they don’t care, honestly,” said Cañizares.
Sánchez is not a criminal and has a solid argument for humanitarian reasons to allow him to stay in the United States, said Cañizares, but Ice does not take this into consideration when he has to respond to what the lawyer said they were expulsion references.
Sánchez had an exceptional expulsion prescription resulting from a failed hearing in 2019, for which she was held for nine months, said Cañizares. Cuba apparently refused to accept Sanchez at the time, then Sanchez was released in 2020 and ordered to maintain a regular checkout of checks with ice, said Cañizares.
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