Lawsuit: ICE Agents Deported Citizen Children in Secret, Including 4-Year-Old on Chemo
Federal suit says DHS officials violated agency policy and constitutional rights in April deportation of Louisiana families
WASHINGTON — A new federal lawsuit filed in the Middle District of Louisiana accuses U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of unlawfully deporting three U.S. citizen children, including a four-year-old with stage-four kidney cancer, alongside their noncitizen parents in April—without due process, parental consent, or access to legal counsel.
The 39-page complaint, filed Thursday by multiple plaintiffs under pseudonyms for their protection, alleges that ICE agents in Louisiana detained the families during routine immigration check-ins, denied them contact with lawyers and family, and then placed both children and adults on flights to Honduras. Among the deported children was a two-year-old girl born in Baton Rouge and a young cancer patient from New Orleans, both U.S. citizens.