US Deports 4 year old citizen with cancer with undocumented mother
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Anonymous
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And now they're coming for the US citizen children with cancer...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/two-children-us-citizens-4-and-7-year-old-deported-honduras-rcna203208 U.S. citizen children, including 4-year-old with cancer, taken to Honduras on mother's deportation flight, legal advocates say Two siblings, ages 4 and 7, were flown out of the U.S. on their mother’s deportation flight before attorneys could reach them, according to the National Immigration Project. The 4-year-old boy, who was actively receiving treatment for a rare form of cancer, was flown to Honduras without his medication, according to Willis and the National Immigration Project. Attorneys were preparing a habeas corpus petition when the children were taken out of the U.S. on an ICE charter flight before the petition could be filed, Willis said. In the cases of the young children, both families had fathers residing in the U.S. and were unable to make decisions about their children before they were flown to Honduras, Willis added. The National Immigration Project said the women were in incommunicado detention by ICE, making them unreachable by lawyers or family members. |
Anonymous
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Disgusting and inhumane.
ICE claims mother wanted to take the kids with her, but did not allow her to speak with anybody outside of ICE. Highly suspect and very scary. |
Anonymous
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How many times do we need to clarify these ridiculous media reports?
The person deported was the mother who has custody of her child. The children who are US citizens can return to the country - they aren’t banned from their homeland at all. We aren’t going to rip children out of their mother’s arms when they are deported without cause. See the uproar a few posts down about the Venezuelan mom who was deported without her kid because she is accused of sex trafficking. |
Anonymous
So you want the United States Government to split up families? That sounds more inhumane and disgusting. |
Anonymous
| Keep deporting children with cancer, Trump! Please! |
Anonymous
GMAFB The US government removed the U.S. citizen children from the country. So far, it seems quite likely neither parent had a choice about this, especially given that the child with cancer didn't even have the opportunity to take their medication with them. |
Anonymous
This isn’t the win you think it is. The family stayed together despite your wanting to rip this toddler from his mother’s arms. |
Anonymous
DP actually what we want is for the government not to remove people from the U.S. inhumanely and without due process. |
Anonymous
| Thai must be traumatizing for a kid. When the next US attack comes from Central America in a decade from now, don’t be surprised |
Anonymous
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BTW we all know you are making ridiculous arguments about these not being deportations to distract from the sh$t show that is the Trump economy. You think people hate immigrants enough that deporting a U.S. citizen cancer patient without their medication is a win for Trump. It's not. It's scary.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-approval-rating-tracker-worst-economic-reviews-in-years-latest-poll-finds/ar-AA1BfEeR?ocid=BingNewsSerp |
Anonymous
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1. The father (or a US citizen if the father doesn’t have legal residency here) needs to fly down to Honduras and bring the child back. Yes it sucks that the child will be without his mother but she doesn’t have legal status - so that was always a possibility.
2. How often does the kid need the lifesaving medicine? Is it available in Honduras? Are people even asking common sense stuff like this or are we just sticking to outrage and not actually helping this child? Also, we need to give the mother some agency. Possibly she was coerced into taking her child with her. That should be investigated. But if she decided it was in her child’s best interest to stay with her - like maybe she knows more about his cancer treatment than we do and determined he could get the treatment he needs in Honduras - then we should respect her parental decisions. |
Anonymous
Of course it's not a "win." The point is that deporting children with cancer is not a good look for Trump. Deporting rapists, murderers, and other violent criminals is--sick children, not so much. |
Anonymous
The Mother was deported, she took her kid with her. You realize if she never came here, this does not happen, so blame her |
Anonymous
Like if Trump’s immigrant mother “never came here, this does not happen, so blame her” for her boy’s vengeance tour? |
Anonymous
Are you going to go give the child their medication? The best way to help is to demand the government OBEY THE LAW. |