Two-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Was Deported With 'No Meaningful Due Process,' Says Trump-Appointed Judge Michael Luciano

Michael Luciano
Apr 25th, 2025, 10:02 pm

A two-year-old U.S. citizen was deported to Honduras with her mother and sister without “meaningful due process,” according to a federal judge in Louisiana.

Identified in court filings as “V.M.L.,” the child was born in New Orleans, according to a birth certificate that was filed with the court. She was released in Honduras on Friday after her father tried to keep her in the U.S. The girl’s mom and sister were born in Honduras.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty scheduled a hearing on the matter on May 16 that will be “in the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.”

Lawyers for the Trump administration claimed that the mother wanted to take the daughter with her to Honduras. In a filing, the government included a handwritten note in Spanish to that effect that was purportedly from the mother.

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