This is alleged, I can’t verify it yet as it’s fresh and there is no news reporting. It could end up being a hoax, but it isn’t an unimaginable escalation. I’ll be curious to see if more information comes out:
Again, this guy and his admin of goons doesn’t realize that there was already a mechanism in place. No, “do WTF you want and get me some abductions and kidnapings! Gotta make your quota which might or might not exist!”
Spoiler:
From the WaPo:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/26/ice-arrests-raids-trump-quota/
(Ninja’d by M_S 3 months ago)
“Quotas will incentivize ICE officers to arrest the easiest people to arrest, rather than the people that are dangerous noncitizens,” said Hunker, who, as the agency’s chief counsel in Dallas, oversaw offices in North Texas and Oklahoma from 2003 through January 2024.
“I’ve just never heard of that,” he said, referring to the quotas.
The reality, however, might not be quite as sensational as the headline implies:
Doesn’t a parent leaving the country with a child need to have documented permission from the other parent or have documentation that they’re the sole guardian of the child?
Google tells me yes: Honduras International Travel Information
Different lawyers, but one possible explanation could be inferred here:
Sigh, both for ICE actions and a sloppy headline.
You’d think that the administration would be staffing up on people to properly process immigration cases, given current priorities…
…except that would assume that the government cares about law.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5372681/trump-immigration-judges-fired
Government claims mother wanted to keep 2 year old citizen with her, although the father was trying to get aunt citizen custody. No reason the government could be lying here when deporting a citizen…
Trump appointed judge is not amused in the case. Apparently called the government to find out more details while they were in mid air, then didn’t get a response until after the plane had landed in Honduras.
This seems really problematic under US and international law where the U.S. Federal government seems to be violating the guy’s parental rights and presumably the daughter’s civil rights.
It appears to me to be quite as sensational, if you take the word of the womens’ attorneys, who are duty-bound to advocate for their clients. On the other hand, we can believe in the stellar historical relationship between the Trump administration and the truth.
Legal counsel for the two Louisiana families tells Rolling Stone that both mothers say they were not given the option of keeping their U.S. citizen children in the country. They say the mothers were told their children were being deported alongside them, despite their citizenship status and even though both families had lawful custodians willing to take custody of the children.
Meanwhile, attorneys for the families say their clients were not afforded any kind of due process, nor were they given access to lawyers, a hearing, or even phone calls. This is despite multiple legal motions being filed to try and delay the deportations until a judge could hear their cases.
“She was told she was being deported with her children and she asked ‘Why my children?’” says Hebert. “They refused to answer her. They gave her no options, no ability to make arrangements. She never signed anything. She never gave them permission. She never indicated that she wanted them to come with her.”
On Thursday morning, the mother reported to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices for what she thought was a standard check-in. In less than 24 hours, she and her two children were on a plane to Honduras. “We were immediately working on arranging for alternate custody so that those kids would not get removed with [their] mother once they were all detained,” says [attorney] Hebert. She says ICE had known prior to the check-in that the four-year-old was in active treatment for cancer. They removed him from the country without his medication and without consulting with his doctors.
Both [attorneys] Hebert and Willis attempted to file legal motions to at least temporarily stop the families from being deported, but they were unable to confer with their clients until after they’d arrived in Honduras.
“What has become entirely clear is that ICE’s portrayal of consent is undeniably false and flatly a lie,” alleges Willis. “ICE did not provide the mothers with any alternative other than their U.S. citizen children coming with them. They were not provided a choice. They were not provided options.”
Willis explains that ICE presented a note they claim V.M.L’s mother handwrote. In Spanish it reads, “I will take my daughter with me to Honduras.” Willis says the letter seems to have been written on a hotel notepad, with parts blacked out to hide the name and location of the hotel. “It’s not an expression of want, it’s not an expression of wish, it’s not an expression of desire,” says Willis. “It is an expression of a fact that she was told by ICE.”
The lady in that article is right.
One of these daye they will try to raid a house with s person who is armed and people are going to get killed.
as in, “one of these days like they already have”? see breona taylor.
