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Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’ (www.politico.com)

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The girl was deported Friday with her mother to Honduras, despite her father’s efforts to keep her in the United States.

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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

Baby was deported together with parents and they were all released from custody into Honduras. So it's not quite like they just chucked a two year old off the plane into a foreign land with nothing.

Thing is, by law the family has a right to have this child live with relatives in the United States. But ICE pulled a bunch of bullshit with limiting phone calls and the like to stop that from happening.

The Trump executive order on birthright citizenship is currently enjoined and not in effect in this country. Even if not, it's not like it can go back in time and strip citizenship from a child two years ago.