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Honduran Family With Leukemic Child Released From ICE, Flown Back to Los Angeles

Their release follows a groundbreaking lawsuit challenging courthouse arrest policies that had halted the boy’s chemotherapy.

Immigration advocates protest recent detentions by ICE outside the immigration court in San Antonio, Texas, Tuesday, July 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents look over lists of names and their hearing times and locations inside the Federal Plaza courthouse before making arrests on June 27, 2025, in New York.
Lawyers from Columbia University and the Texas Civil Rights Project filed the lawsuit against ICE after the family was arrested leaving their asylum hearing on May 29 in Los Angeles.
FILE - In this July 8, 2019, file photo, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer looks on during an operation in Escondido, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Overview

  • ICE released the mother, her 6-year-old leukemia-stricken son and 9-year-old daughter on July 2 without a court order and flew them to Los Angeles where they are staying in a shelter.
  • Civil rights groups including the Texas Civil Rights Project and Columbia Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit arguing that expedited removals at courthouses violated the family’s Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights.
  • The family had been held for more than a month at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center after ICE agents arrested them on May 29 in the hallway outside a Los Angeles asylum hearing following an abrupt dismissal of their removal proceedings.
  • Attorneys say the boy missed at least one medical appointment during detention and showed leukemia symptoms such as easy bruising, bone pain and appetite loss that threatened his treatment timeline.
  • The family, who entered legally last October via the CBP One app, will resume their asylum case and arrange for the boy’s chemotherapy in Los Angeles after DHS disputed claims of medical neglect.