The administration of American president Donald Trump denied on Monday that he expelled three children who had American citizenship last week, attributing their departure to a “parental decision”.
The three children in question were sent to Honduras with their mothers, two migrants in an irregular situation expelled on Friday to their country of origin.
Mothers have made this choice
assured that that Donald Trump named the “Tsar des Frontières”, Tom Homan, during a press briefing at the White House.
He thus contradicted the respective lawyers of the two families to which the three children belong. family lawyers argued that the authorities had not offered the two women the option of leaving their children in the United States and had not allowed them to contact lawyers or their family during their detention.
These young Americans include a 7 -year -old girl and her 4 -year -old brother, suffering from a rare form of stadium cancer 4, according to the lawyer for this family. The latter also said that the boy had not had access to his drugs during his detention.
The third child, a 2-year-old girl sent with her pregnant mother and her 11-year-old sister who did not have American nationality, left the United States despite an emergency judicial request launched by the father to keep her in the country.
The six people, who lived in Louisiana, were detained after a routine verification of mothers with border authorities, according to the New York Times. According to this daily life, mothers were part of a probationary program that allows migrants to the migration center to stay in the United States.
The clandestine migrants are responsible for the fate reserved for their children, argued Mr. Homan.
If you stay in this country illegally and ignore the order of a judge to expel yourself, if you choose to have a child who is an American citizen while knowing that you are in this country illegally, you put yourself in this situation. You put your family in this situation
he said.
If we didn’t have [envoyé les enfants avec leurs mères]the news would be for the Trump administration to separate families again
he added, referring to a contested policy implemented during the first term of Donald Trump.
Between 2017 and 2018, thousands of children had been separated from their parents arrested on the American border for having crossed it undocumented under a policy of zero tolerance
which aimed to discourage illegal immigration.
Upon his return to the White House, Donald Trump adopted a decree which puts an end to the reunification work of the group implemented by his predecessor Joe Biden.
Hundreds of children have still not been united with their parents.
A judge says he is concerned
A few hours after the 2-year-old American girl’s departure, a Louisiana district judge, appointed by Donald Trump, expressed doubts before the merits of his departure, to whom her father opposed.
The government claims that everything is fine because the mother wants the child to be expelled with her. But the court does not know it
wrote the judge.
He set an audience on May 16 to investigate his strong suspicion that the government has just expelled an American citizen without any valid procedure
. He is illegal and unconstitutional
To expel American citizens, he insisted.
The law of the soil gives any person born in American territory the right to obtain American nationality under the 14th amendment of the Constitution, of which Donald Trump disputes the usual interpretation.
-One of his decrees, already disputed to the Supreme Court, also aims to greatly limit the scope of the law of the soil.
The management of the disputed migration issue
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Border services agents in the United States (ICE) led a raid to Denver, Colorado, February 12, 2025.
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In the morning, Tom Homan said that the Trump administration had expelled 139,000 undocumented migrants since his post into post, a number of that reached by the administration of Joe Biden in his last year in power.
There are fewer migrants crossing the border, he argued.
Donald Trump also signed a decree on Monday which orders the Department of Justice to develop a list
of cities and states which, according to the White House, make obstruction
to the application of the policy of massive expulsion of migrants.
He started a pass of arms with cities and states that claim the status of sanctuary
and threatens to cut them with the payment of federal funds. Last week, a judge had already prohibited the Trump administration from conditioning the allocation of federal funds, considering this policy contrary to the Constitution.
The massive expulsion of migrants in an irregular situation was one of Donald Trump’s flagship promises.
A majority of Americans continue to support this objective, but the polls indicate that they do not mainly appreciate the way it is done.
Several migratory decisions implemented in recent weeks are subject to an showdown before the courts.
The file of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoral Migrant whom the government admitted having expelled in a mistake
In Salvador, where he is imprisoned, is one of those who make the headlines. The Supreme Court has ordered the federal government to “facilitate” its return.
The highest court in the country has also suspended the expulsion of Venezuelan migrants presented as members of a criminal gang and expelled in Salvador under an exceptional law without being entitled to the usual legal procedures.
According to a CNN/SSRS survey published on Monday, 54 % of Americans disapprove of the way in which Donald Trump manages immigration, against 45 % who approve of it. At the beginning of last month, a majority, however, was in accordance with his approach.
A survey Associated Press/NORC published on Friday gave results similar to that on Monday.
The probe shot unveiled last week by Fox Newsa network favorable to President Trump reported a larger gap with 48 % negative opinions and 47 % of positive opinions on the specific issue of immigration, by far the aspect of his least criticized work.
With agency information France-press
