Overview

• A two-year-old U.S. citizen, identified as VML in court documents, was deported to Honduras with her mother by U.S. immigration authorities earlier this week.
• Federal Judge Terry Doughty ruled the deportation illegal and unconstitutional, citing a lack of formal procedures and due process protections.
• The Trump administration claims the mother requested her child be deported with her, but the court has expressed uncertainty over the validity of this consent.
• The child's father filed an emergency injunction seeking her release before the deportation, but the child was already en route to Honduras when the court intervened.
• This case is the latest in a series of legal challenges to the administration’s aggressive immigration policies, including wrongful deportations and judicial pushback against expedited expulsions.