The deportations from the southern state of Louisiana come as President Donald Trump pursues a hard-line immigration policy, calling for mass expulsions of undocumented migrants.
“The New Orleans ICE Field Office deported at least two families, including two mothers and their minor children,“ the National Immigration Project said in a Saturday statement, referring to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
“One of the mothers is currently pregnant,“ the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a separate statement, describing the deportations as “illegal and inhumane.”
It added that ICE agents held the families “incommunicado” and failed to facilitate communication between the women and lawyers.
Gracie Willis of the National Immigration Project said in the statement: “What we saw from ICE over the last several days is horrifying and baffling. Families have been ripped apart unnecessarily.”
In the case of one woman and her two-year-old who were deported to Honduras, Federal District Judge Terry Doughty has set a May 16 hearing “in the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the government just deported a US citizen with no meaningful process.”
The girl has only been identified by the initials VML.
The Trump administration has butted heads with federal judges, rights groups and Democrats who say he has trampled or ignored constitutional rights in rushing to deport migrants, sometimes without the right to a hearing.
He dismissed due judicial process around deportations, saying: “It is not possible to have trials for millions and millions of people.”
On Friday, federal agents arrested a US judge in Wisconsin for allegedly shielding an undocumented migrant.
The White House has also defied a Supreme Court ruling that the Trump administration must “facilitate” the return of Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.
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