A federal judge in Louisiana said the deportation of the child to Honduras with her mother, even though her father had filed an emergency petition, appeared to be “illegal and unconstitutional.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen after she accompanied her mother and her older sister to an immigration appointment.
An updated lawsuit filed in Washington was the latest in a flurry of suits challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to send migrants to a prison in El Salvador.
The case, involving a 20-year-old Venezuelan, comes on the heels of another legal battle over the fate of a different man wrongfully sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration.
A view of the Santa Ana Penitentiary Agricultural Industrial Complex in El Salvador, where Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is reportedly being held after he was wrongfully sent to the country by the Trump administration.
President Trump’s aides have dug in on insisting that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was lawfully sent to a prison in El Salvador after the administration had admitted to an “administrative error.”
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, left, meeting with Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland in San Salvador in April, in a handout photo provided by Mr. Van Hollen’s office.
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