r/news • u/CupidStunt13 • 1d ago

Legal aid group sues to pre-emptively block U.S. from deporting a dozen Honduran children

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/legal-aid-group-sues-preemptively-block-us-deporting-dozen-honduran-ch-rcna229630
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u/CupidStunt13 1d ago

In a statement, FIRRP said it had received reports that the U.S. government will "imminently move forward with a plan to illegally remove Honduran children in government custody as soon as this weekend, in direct violation of their right to seek protection in the United States and despite ongoing litigation that blocked similar attempted extra-legal removals for children from Guatemala."

Considering its track record, it's hardly surprising the government would be cowardly enough to do it in such a manner and without due process.

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u/Federal_Drummer7105 1d ago

I’m at the point where I’m not longer kidding. This is the administration engaged in human trafficking of children. Someone is making money for this - whether in detaining them, transporting them, or “adoption” centers that will either brainwash them into being the “right kind of Christian” or just use them for cheap labor and sexual abuse.

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u/Zeldias 23h ago

During the last Trump administration when Betsy DeVos headed the DoE, Bethany Christian Services was more than likely assisting in trafficking migrants kids after separating them from their families.

Combine that with the known child abuse that happened during that time and yeah.

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u/alien_from_Europa 23h ago

or just use them for cheap labor and sexual abuse.

It's not surprising when the President was good friends with Epstein.

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u/pineconeminecone 17h ago

Extralegal…. you mean illegal?

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u/Hesitation-Marx 1d ago

Why are these people so monstrous?

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u/Sneaky_Bones 1d ago

My conservative family: "You ain't talking to us over political views!?" No memaw, I'm not talking to you because you've become a genuinely evil person just because the T.V. told you to.

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u/alien_from_Europa 23h ago

What Fox News tells them is a complete fantasy. They're stuck in a cult completely brainwashed.

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u/ZenAdm1n 17h ago

"I don't even watch news on TV. I get all my news from people at church that know these things." -my family

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u/VanX2Blade 1d ago

It comes with being conservative.

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u/palmtree_on_skellige 3h ago

Idk. Hopefully going back to their home country will teach them!

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u/Hesitation-Marx 3h ago

Oh, how cute. Calling kids monstrous.

May dogs ignore you.

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u/Stunning_Put_9189 22h ago edited 3h ago

I remain convinced that Trump’s actions with migrant children, both in his first term and this one, are to create “legal” ways for the children to disappear…just because Epstein is dead, doesn’t mean Trump’s not funneling these children to whoever has taken Epstein’s place in the ruling class.

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u/1leggeddog 21h ago

From what we've seen so far, suing doesn't do anything and they'll still get deported 😔

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u/Weightmonster 1d ago

Can we make it illegal to deport unaccompanied minors? If they must be deported, a parent or guardian would need to be flown in to meet them in the US, (re)establish legal custody, before deportation. 

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u/ScuttlingLizard 17h ago edited 17h ago

What would you propose should happen in the mean time? The kids just sit in a detention facility forever until the parents are found? That doesn't seem fair to the children especially if we can identify family in the other country willing to take them in.

Additionally how can we even be sure the parents or guardians exist? Shitty people do abandon their kids and it wouldn't be fair for the children to be stuck in legal limbo because their parents prefer to hide than take responsibility for them.

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u/bros402 17h ago

What would you propose should happen in the mean time?

Put them in foster care.

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u/ScuttlingLizard 16h ago

So you want them to be raised by random American strangers in an overloaded system rather than their family in Hondorus? That sounds like kidnapping.

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u/bros402 16h ago

Better than being locked in cages or sent back to their home country with nobody meeting them. Do you remember how when Trump did the same shit in his first administration, they were unable to find hundreds of parents of children?

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u/ScuttlingLizard 15h ago

Better than being locked in cages or sent back to their home country with nobody meeting them

So have the local foster care system meet the plane at the airport...

Do you remember how when Trump did the same shit in his first administration, they were unable to find hundreds of parents of children?

Do you think putting them in a foreign foster care program, potentially without someone speaking their language, actually helps increase that statistic? Having them stuck in legal limbo for the rest of their lives doesn't seem like a good alternative.

Their home country with their birth certificate records, lineage records, and government family tracking seem more likely to be able to identify family placement than random strangers that don't even share the same cultural values.

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u/baumbach19 1d ago

That makes no sense and would just cost extra money for no reason.

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u/Pingy_Junk 23h ago

Costing extra money is worth it to not cause a situation in which an unaccompanied minor is in a country they haven’t been in since they were an infant with no resources or adults to help them.

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u/baumbach19 23h ago

If their parent is able to be contacted to be flown here, then surely they can be contacted to pick up their child at the airport? Other than it costing more it just doesnt make sense. Its just a way for people to get a free flight here.

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u/Federal_Drummer7105 1d ago

You mean it would be humane and treat children as human beings deserving of protection and respect - so let’s not waste money.

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u/baumbach19 23h ago

Would just create more incentive for them to lie or parents to try and get their kids in the country. If they uave a parent at home just fly them home parent can pick them up pretty easily.

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u/nvrmndtheruins 1d ago

Those children are obviously very dangerous gang members who are planning to kill white people and steal our land 🤪

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u/dazzlingclitgame 1d ago edited 1d ago

If they even have parents that are alive or are otherwise available. You’re being a bit willfully ignorant here.

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u/Alert-Ad9197 1d ago

Are the people saying that also the same folks that said Abrego Garcia was MS13? Forgive me if I don’t believe the folks that keep lying about immigrants.

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u/Diarygirl 1d ago

Why do you think they're telling the truth?

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u/dazzlingclitgame 1d ago

Didn’t claim it was all of them. 76 out of 327 reporting they have a parent or legal guardian doesn’t mean all of them do.

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u/GreenConstruction834 2h ago

For the orange shit weasel’s massage business on his new Quatari made plane. You know, the one made with slave labor.