The 2 -year -old US citizen who was deported with his mother to Honduras last month, voluntarily rejected his lawsuit against Trump’s administration, one of the lawyers who represented the family told ABC News.
“Given the trauma experience that the family has passed, they take a step down to discuss fully about all their choices, the safety and welfare of their children, and the best way to continue so that the losses they suffer can be fully handled,” said lawyer Gracie Willis.
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“They voluntarily reject this case to give themselves space and time to consider all the options available to them,” he added.
Last month, a federal judge said he had a strong suspicion that Trump’s government deported a 2 -year -old US citizen for Honduras “without a meaningful process.”
Demonstrators hold signs to condemn ice and doge at a general meeting at Foley Square in New York, May 10, 2025.
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US citizens, who were identified in submission as “VML,” were originally detained with their mothers and sisters, both of whom did not have the legal status to be in the United States, on routine immigration check-in in New Orleans last month. After the father of the 2 -year -old child learned that his family was detained, his lawyer summoned immigration officials to tell them that VML was a US citizen and could not be deported, according to court documents.
Before the court responded to the petition of Habeas and a motion for a temporary detention order, a 2 -year -old child, along with his mother and sister, was deported to Honduras, according to the court submission.
Responding to the motion, a lawyer with the Department of Justice said it was the best interest of a child of a minor that he remained in his mother’s legal detention and that he was not “a risk of damage that could not be repaired because he was a US citizen.”
US Judge Terry Doughty has scheduled a hearing in this case for May 16.
“ACLU canceled his lawsuit on fake claims that DHS deported US citizens,” Assistant Secretary Tricia Mclaughhlin said in a statement on Saturday.
In September 5, 2019, photo files, ice agents are displayed at Revere, Mass.
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“The truth is, and always, that the mother-who in the country illegally chose to bring her 2-year-old child to Honduras when she was moved. The narrative that DHS deported fake and irresponsible American children,” he added.