In a move that has drawn widespread condemnation, a 2 year old citizen deported with her mother by New Orleans ICE officials on Friday highlights troubling due process issues under President Trump’s immigration crackdown. According to the ACLU of Louisiana, two U.S. citizen children—a two-year-old and her siblings, aged four and seven—were abruptly removed from the country, despite one child undergoing treatment for metastatic cancer and another mother being pregnant.
2 Year Old Citizen Deported Under Troubling Circumstances
Both families had lived in the United States for years and were deeply rooted in their communities, the ACLU says. They detained them separately—one on Tuesday. The other on Thursday—and rushed onto a deportation flight without meaningful access to counsel or medical care. In one harrowing incident, they allowed a mother less than a minute to call her spouse before ICE cut off the line, even as he tried to provide a lawyer’s phone number.
- Children Involved: U.S. citizen minors aged 2, 4, and 7.
- Medical Emergency: One child with a rare form of metastatic cancer was sent abroad without medication or physician consultation.
- Pregnancy at Risk: A pregnant mother was deported without ensuring continuity of prenatal care.
The ACLU of Louisiana’s Executive Director, Alanah Odoms, delivered a sharp rebuke:
“Once again, the government has used deceptive tactics to deny people their rights. These outrageous actions must be condemned. We as a nation are better than this. These families deserve better. They must be returned.”
Due Process Concerns and Legal Fallout
Late Friday, media coverage intensified after a judge demanded an urgent hearing. Noting in court filings that the administration appeared to have “just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.” Advocates point out that ICE’s own directives require coordination for the care of minor citizens and permit family members or enlist willing caretakers during detainment. Procedures that they blatantly ignored.
Mich P. Gonzalez, founding partner of Sanctuary of the South, argued for accountability:
“A government agency that sequesters and deports vulnerable mothers with their U.S. citizen children without due process must be defunded, not rewarded with an additional $45 billion at taxpayers’ expense. These families were lawfully complying with ICE’s orders. Yet they suffered cruel and traumatic separation. If this is what the Trump administration is orchestrating just three months in, we should all be terrified of what the next four years will bring.”
Historical Pattern: Second Child with Cancer Deported
This incident marks at least the second time under the current administration. They expelled a citizen child battling cancer. Last month saw a 10-year-old U.S. citizen with brain cancer deported from Texas back to Mexico with her undocumented parents. In both cases, medical teams and civil rights groups had alerted ICE to the children’s life-threatening conditions. Alerts that went unheeded.
The recurring pattern raises urgent questions about the balance between immigration enforcement and the rights of American citizens, especially the most vulnerable.
What Happens Next
Legal advocates are pushing for immediate court intervention to reunite these families and secure medical care for the ill child. The ACLU demands that the two mothers and their U.S. citizen children be allowed to return, restore their due process rights, and obtain necessary medical and prenatal treatment.
Whether the deportations will stand or be reversed remains to be seen. But the political and legal fallout is already significant. With public outcry growing and lawmakers from both parties expressing concern, ICE’s policies and leadership could face increased scrutiny—and possible reform.
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