This 2-year-old American girl was ‘deported' with her undocumented parents
POTÉ, Brazil — Elioni Gonçalves awoke with a feeling of dread. Her first thought was of her 2-year-old daughter, Manu.
Manu is American. She was born Emanuelly Borges Santos in a Fort Lauderdale hospital in September 2022. But in February, she was taken into custody in Florida alongside her mother and father, both of whom were undocumented, and placed on a deportation flight to Brazil, where the family has been plunged into a bureaucratic morass.
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