The household of the 2-year-old U.S. citizen who was deported along with her mom to Honduras final month, voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit in opposition to the Trump administration, one of many attorneys who represents the household instructed ABC Information.
“Given the traumatizing experiences the households have been via, they’re taking a step again to have full discussions about all their choices, the protection and well-being of their kids, and one of the best methods to proceed so the harms they’ve suffered may be totally addressed,” lawyer Gracie Willis mentioned.
On this Feb. 24, 2025, file picture, a Federal agent is photographed as ICE conduct raids on a neighborhood tire store enterprise in Colony Ridge, Texas.
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“They’re voluntarily dismissing this case to offer themselves house and time to think about all of the choices which might be out there to them,” she added.
Final month, a federal choose mentioned he had a robust suspicion that the Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras “with no meaningful process.”
Demonstrators maintain up indicators condemning ICE and DOGE at a rally in Foley Sq. in New York, Could 10, 2025.
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The U.S. citizen, recognized within the filings as “V.M.L,” was initially detained along with her mom and sister, who each lacked authorized standing to be in the USA, at a routine immigration check-in in New Orleans final month. After the daddy of the 2-year-old realized that his household was detained, his lawyer known as immigration officers to tell them that V.M.L. is a U.S. citizen and couldn’t be deported, in keeping with court docket paperwork.
Earlier than the court docket responded to the habeas petition and a movement for a brief restraining order, the 2-year-old, alongside along with her mom and sister, had been deported to Honduras, in keeping with court docket filings.
In response to the movement, attorneys with the Division of Justice mentioned it was in one of the best curiosity of the minor that she stay in authorized custody of her mom and that she was not at “threat of irreparable hurt as a result of she is a U.S. citizen.”
U.S. District Decide Terry Doughty had scheduled a listening to within the case for Could 16.
“The ACLU dropped its lawsuit on the false claims that DHS deported a U.S. citizen,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin mentioned in a press release on Saturday.
On this Sept. 5, 2019, file picture, an ICE agent badge is proven in Revere, Mass.
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“The reality is, and has all the time been, that the mom — who was within the nation illegally — selected to deliver her 2-year-old along with her to Honduras when she was eliminated. The narrative that DHS is deporting American kids is fake and irresponsible,” she added.
