A federal judge says a 2-year-old Louisiana girl and U.S. citizen may have been deported to Honduras this week with her mother and 11-year-old sister without due process, according to court documents obtained by CBS News.

In an order Friday, Judge Terry Doughty, who sits on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, wrote there was a “strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.”

When Doughty, appointed to the bench by Trump during his first term, sought Friday afternoon to arrange a phone call with the mother of the girl, Justice Department lawyers informed him that a call with the child’s mother “would not be possible because she (and presumably VML) had just been released in Honduras.” The girl is identified in court documents as VML.

    • @gibmiser@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      1012 hours ago

      Well, they do need to link it to what the admin is calling it so that people understand the deportation process has been corrupted and is no longer what it used to be.

      Aka when trump admin says they are deporting people, this is what they mean