Key points
- One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer: The Washington Post
- Trump seeks mass expulsions of undocumented migrants
- White House has defied SC ruling in “erroneous” deportation of US resident
ISLAMABAD: Three American children aged two, four and seven — one of whom has a rare form of cancer — have been deported from the United States alongside their undocumented immigrant mothers, AFP cited the campaigners as saying.
The deportations from the southern state of Louisiana come as US President Donald Trump pursues an immigration policy, calling for mass expulsions of undocumented migrants, Western media reported.
“The New Orleans ICE Field Office deported at least two families, including two mothers and their minor children,” AFP cited the statement of the National Immigration Project as saying. It stated that the deportations were hastily ordered, and conducted in the early hours of Friday.
The Washington Post reported that the family’s lawyer said one of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors,
“One of the mothers is currently pregnant,” the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a separate statement, describing the deportations as “illegal and inhumane.”
It said that ICE agents held the families “incommunicado” and failed to facilitate communication between the women and lawyers.
“Horrifying”
AFP reported that Gracie Willis of the National Immigration Project said in the statement: “What we saw from ICE over the last several days is horrifying and baffling. Families have been ripped apart unnecessarily.”
“We should be gravely concerned that ICE has been given tacit approval to both detain and deport US citizen children.”
The White House has also defied a Supreme Court ruling that the Trump administration must “facilitate” the return of Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, AFP reported.
