USA - Three young children who are US citizens - including one with cancer - were deported to Honduras alongside their mothers last week, according to advocacy groups and the fam-ilies' lawyers.
One of the children is a four-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was sent without medication, a lawyer for the child's family said.
Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan said the mothers had made the choice for their citizen children to be removed with them. "Having a US citizen child does not make you immune from our laws," he said, adding the mothers were in the US illegally. Trump faced a backlash during his first term for a policy that separated thousands of children from their parents.
On Friday, New Orleans Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials deported the two mothers and three children aged two, four, and seven, to Honduras from Louisiana, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a statement. The two families - including one pregnant mother - had lived in the US for years and were "deported from the U.S. under deeply troubling circumstances that raise serious due process concerns", the ACLU said.
One of the US citizen children who was removed was suffering from metastatic cancer and was deported without the ability to consult with doctors, the advocacy group alleged. (BBC)
