US deports 3 American children, including cancer patient: rights groups

Three American children aged two, 4 and 7 -- 1 of whom has a uncommon signifier of crab -- person been deported from the United States alongside their undocumented migrant mothers, campaigners announced Saturday.

The deportations from the confederate authorities of Louisiana travel arsenic President Donald Trump pursues a hard-line migration policy, calling for wide expulsions of undocumented migrants.

The medication of President Donald Trump contends 1 of the women asked for her kid to beryllium sent with her.

"The New Orleans ICE Field Office deported astatine slightest 2 families, including 2 mothers and their insignificant children," the National Immigration Project said successful a Saturday statement, referring to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

It said the deportations were hastily ordered, and carried retired successful the aboriginal hours of Friday.

"One of the mothers is presently pregnant," the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said successful a abstracted statement, describing the deportations arsenic "illegal and inhumane."

One of the US children removed from the state has "a uncommon signifier of metastatic cancer" and was deported without medicine oregon aesculapian consultations, the ACLU said.

It added that ICE agents held the families "incommunicado" and failed to facilitate connection betwixt the women and lawyers.

- 'Horrifying and baffling' -

Gracie Willis of the National Immigration Project said successful the statement: "What we saw from ICE implicit the past respective days is horrifying and baffling. Families person been ripped isolated unnecessarily."

"We should beryllium gravely acrophobic that ICE has been fixed tacit support to some detain and deport US national children."

In the lawsuit of 1 pistillate and her two-year-old who were deported to Honduras, Federal District Judge Terry Doughty has acceptable a May 16 proceeding "in the involvement of dispelling our beardown suspicion that the authorities conscionable deported a US national with nary meaningful process."

"The authorities contends that this is each good due to the fact that the parent wishes that the kid beryllium deported with her. But the tribunal doesn't cognize that," wrote Doughty successful a tribunal bid dated Friday, highlighting that it is amerciable to deport a US citizen.

The miss has lone been identified by the initials VML.

Attorneys for her begetter filed an exigency petition for a impermanent restraining bid aimed astatine obtaining the girl's return.

The Trump medication has butted heads with national judges, rights groups and Democrats who accidental helium has trampled oregon ignored law rights successful rushing to deport migrants, sometimes without the close to a hearing.

In a station connected societal media Saturday, Trump claimed that undocumented migrants successful the United States were "wreaking havoc similar we person ne'er seen before."

He dismissed owed judicial process astir deportations, saying: "It is not imaginable to person trials for millions and millions of people."

"We cognize who the Criminals are, and we indispensable get them retired of the U.S.A. -- and FAST!"

On Friday, national agents arrested a US justice successful Wisconsin for allegedly shielding an undocumented migrant.

The White House has besides defied a Supreme Court ruling that the Trump medication indispensable "facilitate" the instrumentality of Maryland nonmigratory Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to a maximum information situation successful El Salvador.

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