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Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Stephen Miller Melts Down at Reporter Asking About Deported Moms
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on Monday repeatedly questioned a reporter inquiring about the Trump administration's deportations of women with young children. Outside the White House, a reporter wondered whether such deportations made sense financially. 'I'm not disputing the facts surrounding many of these women who were removed with their kids, but given that you're looking for more money from Congress, ICE says they need more beds, they need more money, is it the best use of the administration's resources to be going after moms of young kids, basically?' the reporter asked. Miller at first declined to answer. Instead, he decided to be the one asking questions. 'Do you yourself have an opinion on the subject?' he asked. 'I'm more interested in yours,' the reporter replied. Miller again responded with his own question. 'What percentage of the—let's just pick an even number of say, 10 million illegal aliens,' he said. 'Let's say Biden released 10 million illegal aliens into the country over the last four years. What percentage do you think we stay here of those 10 million?' The reporter replied that he wasn't interested in 'doing a game show' with Miller, who responded with yet another question. 'Is it your view that if a Democrat president releases 10, 15, 20 million illegals into the country, then they all get to stay forever and for all of life?' The reporter, seeming a bit exasperated by this point, told Miller, 'I don't have a view about what Democratic presidents do. 'I'm asking about what the Republican president—' he reiterated, before being cut off. 'Okay, so you don't want to answer the question because you know the answer is obvious: everyone that Biden let in has to go home, of course, and it's a crazy thing to even ask,' the Trump official said. When the reporter reminded Miller that his question was about how the administration is prioritizing its work, Miller finally got around to an answer. 'ICE is going to continue to focus on raids against high criminal aliens,' he said. 'We're going to use the entire force and power the federal government to get them all. Many will choose also to leave voluntarily and take advantage of the CBP Home app. But we're not going ask taxpayers to subsidize the presence of a single illegal alien in this country.' In one particularly egregious case, the Trump administration deported a Honduras-born mother and her 2-year-old daughter, who is a U.S. citizen. The pair are set to have a hearing next month. The judge, Trump appointee Terry Doughty, wrote that the court has a 'strong suspicion that the government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.' Other deportations to Honduras last week, according to civil rights groups and families' attorneys, were of a cancer-stricken four-year-old and their seven-year-old sibling. Both are citizens who were also deported with their mother. In each family's case, the ACLU says, 'ICE held the families incommunicado, refusing or failing to respond to multiple attempts by attorneys and family members to contact them.'
Metro
27-04-2025
- Politics
- Metro
Four-year-old child with rare cancer 'deported despite being a US citizen'
The Trump government has been accused of wrongly deporting a young US citizen with cancer. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have deported mothers and children from three families, and three children involved are US citizens, their lawyers say. A four-year-old, who is suffering with a rare form of cancer, and a seven-year-old sibling were deported to Honduras with a day of being arrested with their Honduras-born mother. In another case, a two-year-old girl and her mother was deported with her pregnant mother and 11-year-old Honduran-born sister to Honduras. And in Florida, a Cuban-born woman who is mother of a one-year-old girl and the wife of a US citizen has also been deported, separating her from her daughter who is still breastfeeding. The case comes as a battle in the federal courts over whether President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has gone too far and moved too quickly. Lawyers say the three women were arrested at routine check-ins at ICE offices, given virtually no opportunity to speak to lawyers or their families, and all deported in fewer than three days. The mothers weren't given a fair opportunity to decide whether their children should remain in the US or not, it is alleged. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), National Immigration Project and several other allied groups said in a statement that the way ICE deported children who are US citizens and their mothers is a 'shocking — although increasingly common — abuse of power'. Gracie Willis, from the National Immigration Project, said: 'We have no idea what ICE was telling them, and in this case what has come to light is that ICE didn't give them another alternative. 'They didn't gave them a choice, that these mothers only had the option to take their children with them despite loving caregivers being available in the United States to keep them here.' In the case involving the 2-year-old, a federal judge in Louisiana raised questions about the deportation of the girl, saying the government did not prove it had done so properly. More Trending US District Judge Terry Doughty scheduled a court hearing on May 16 'in the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the government just deported a US citizen with no meaningful process'. Lawyers for the girl's father insisted he wanted the girl to remain with him in the US, while ICE contended the mother had wanted the girl to be deported with her to Honduras – claims that hadn't been fully vetted by Judge Doughty. Meanwhile, the father's lawyers said ICE had indicated it was holding his two-year-old daughter to try and induce him to turn himself in. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: Inside the mystery of why people keep disappearing in 'America's Bermuda triangle' in Vermont MORE: What happened to the third chair at Trump and Zelensky's Vatican meeting? MORE: Man wanted for hiding cannabis-filled Easter eggs in parks
Yahoo
26-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump Judge Demands Answers in 2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen's Deportation
A federal judge has ordered a hearing to determine whether the Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen with 'no meaningful process.' U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty set the date of May 16 to resolve the matter of the New Orleans-born child who, he said, appears to be in Honduras with her mother. The issue, as Politico reported Friday, stemmed from the deportation of the child's Honduras-born mother. Trump administration officials claimed in court that the woman had told Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials that she wanted to bring her 2-year-old with her. They offered a handwritten letter in Spanish purportedly from the mother saying as much. 'The government contends that this is all okay because the mother wishes that the child be deported with her,' Doughty wrote. 'But the Court doesn't know that.' Also a factor is how the child's father had been asking the courts to allow her to stay in the U.S. Family lawyers filed an emergency petition Thursday in the Western District of Louisiana demanding her release. The petition said that ICE officials denied the father an appropriate amount of time to speak to the mother over the phone about their child—only about one minute on Tuesday. Doughty, a Trump appointee, said he tried to get to the bottom of things Friday by seeking to talk to the mother on the phone. But government lawyers replied that it wouldn't be possible since she was in Honduras. Therefore, Doughty set next month's hearing 'in the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.'
