A federal judge in Louisiana has set a hearing next month to discuss his concerns that the Trump administration may have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras without due process and against her family’s wishes.
Louisiana Federal District Court Judge Terry Doughty issued the order Friday and set a hearing date of May 16. The judge said he questioned whether the child, identified in court papers as V.M.L., was deported with her mother over her father’s objections. The child was sent to Honduras even though an emergency petition was filed to prevent her deportation, the judge said.
“The government contends that this is all OK because the mother wishes that the child be deported with her,” wrote Judge Doughty. “But the court doesn’t know that.”
The judge, a Trump appointee, said he called the hearing “in the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.”
Ben Shapiro defends the Trump administration after a judge noted a two-year-old US citizen may have been removed from the country with “no meaningful process”
Ben Shapiro and the Trump administration argue that the mother wanted the child to be deported with her. The Trump-appointed judge in the case wrote that "the court doesn’t know that.”
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From the April 28, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): On immigration, President Trump has been fighting the good fight. It remains the bright spot of his administration in terms of the polling data.
Despite all the attempts by the media to simply lie about President Trump's immigration policy, to suggest that he's deporting innocent people — innocent two year-olds, for example. They just lie about what exactly he is doing.
The latest example of this, by the way, a judge over the weekend is raising alarms the Trump administration deported a two year-old US citizen to Honduras with, quote, no meaningful process, even as the child's father was frantically petitioning the courts to keep her in the country. US District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, said the child appeared to have been released in Honduras earlier Friday along with her Honduran-born mother and sister, who'd been detained by immigration officials earlier in the week.
Well, it sounds from this article as though this kid was just basically randomly — US citizen randomly deported with mom.
OK. Except that mom wanted the child to go with her. That's the actual story here.
Trump administration officials pointed out the mother told the ICE officials that if she was deported, she wanted to take her two year-old with her, which is a perfectly natural thing to do. Most people don't leave their two year-olds behind in a foreign country.
The filing from the Trump administration included a handwritten note in Spanish that was claimed was written by the mother and confirmed her intent. So, again, the media tried to report that as the Trump administration kind of stealing away in the dead of night two year-olds. That's not happening.