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The Bloody Lies of Marco Rubio [1]
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Date: 2025-04-28
Sunday, SOS Marco Rubio went on NBC’s Meet the Press program to declare that contrary to all the available evidence, the US was not forcibly deporting any US citizen children to Central America. Echoing ‘Border Czar’ Tom Homan’s infamous quip that we’re not really deporting American children since their mothers supposedly chose to take them with them: “I imagine those three US citizen children have fathers here in the United States. They can stay with their father. That’s up to their family to decide where the children go.”
One of the attorneys hired by those families begs to disagree. This harrowing account is from the Guardian:
Two women who were deported to Honduras alongside their US citizen children were held in “complete isolation” and denied any opportunity to coordinate the care and custody of their children before being put on a flight, according to one of the lawyers representing them. The mothers were unable to contact attorneys or loved ones, and were not allowed the option to transfer the custody of their citizen children to another parent or caregiver, said Gracie Willis, an attorney with the National Immigration Project who is representing one of the families and coordinating with the team representing the other family. “Here we had moms held completely in isolation, being told what was happening to their children. They didn’t have an opportunity to talk this through, to weigh the pros and cons of taking or leaving their children in the US,” Willis said. One of the mothers, who was deported with her seven-year-old and her four-year-old, both of whom are citizens, was unable to access medications and care for her youngest, who has a rare form of late-stage cancer. Another woman, who is pregnant, was put on a plane to Honduras along with her 11-year-old and two-year-old daughters, even as the children’s father and a caretaker designated by the family were desperately trying to contact them.
What kind on moral monsters would do this sort of thing, particularly to young children? Deporting a four-year-old being treated for late-stage metastatic cancer without even their medications? That is some really twisted Third Reich level of depravity.
Both families were detained at regular check-in appointments with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) in New Orleans, according to lawyers, and then taken hours away from the city and prohibited from communicating with family members. ... After lawyers for VML, the two-year-old who is identified in court documents by only her initials, filed an emergency motion to prevent the US citizen toddler’s deportation, a federal district judge raised concerns that he had a “strong suspicion that the government just deported a US citizen with no meaningful process”. A hearing in VML’s case has been scheduled for 18 May. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has been claiming that the family’s cases were handled legally and with due process.
Three weeks just to hold a hearing the government will most likely blow off anyway? How about an immediate injunction to seek some relief, or at least accountability, instead?
On 22 April, VML’s mother had been told to bring her children to her check-in with Ice, according to Willis. The father, who had brought them to the check-in appointment, began to worry that the appointment was taking longer than usual – and was later told that his partner and daughters had been detained. When he was eventually able to speak to them, he could hear his partner and daughter crying on the phone and his call was cut off before he was able to give them a number for the family’s attorneys. … Before their deportation, both families had been dutifully complying with Ice orders to regularly check-in. VML’s mother had arrived at the US southern border during the “remain in Mexico” program instituted during the first Trump administration, which forced non-Mexican asylum seekers to wait south of the border while their cases were processed. The mother, and her now 11-year-old, had reported to an initial appointment with immigration officials but had been kidnapped in Mexico – and were unable to attend their second immigration hearing. When the mother and daughter managed to return and seek safety in the United States, immigration officials released them into the country on the condition that they regularly check-in – which they had been doing for about four years, according to Willis. The other woman deported with her children had entered the US as an unaccompanied minor child, and had been issued deportation orders after she failed to report at a hearing that she was not aware was happening, as she never received a summons, Willis said.
Rubio, Homan, Trump, and the rest of this lawless crowd that masquerades as the US Government need to be hounded by the press at every opportunity over this ongoing crime against humanity!
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