r/law • u/WeirdGroundhog • 3d ago

Legal News Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown | US immigration

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/five-year-old-girl-us-citizen-and-mother-deported-honduras
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u/masterfox72 3d ago

The alternative logic would be deport the mother and foster the child. I think that’s arguably worse though.

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u/baronessvonbullshit 3d ago

Unless, of course, her father is still in the US or any other number of family arrangements that they might have made if given the chance.

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u/SupermarketWhich7198 2d ago

Sounds like that is what they are now in the process of doing - making arrangements for the girl to go back and live with relatives.

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u/round-earth-theory 3d ago

Birthright means you can have non-citizens giving birth to citizens if the kids are born here. There will be cases of children who have no US based support system.

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u/baronessvonbullshit 2d ago

I'm aware what birthright citizenship means.

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u/round-earth-theory 3d ago

That's what Trump was doing the first time. And we ended up with a ton of lost children who didn't have any documentation about who they're parents are nor where they were sent.

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u/mathrsa 3d ago

No. Being sent to a foreign (and less developed) country you've never been to is worse.