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Pedro Camacho

Family Sues Trump Admin After ICE Arrest of 6-Year-Old With Leukemia at Immigration Court

ICE agents waiting to arrest immigrants during mandatory check-ins (Credit: Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

A Honduran mother and her two children have filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested them outside a Los Angeles immigration courthouse. The family includes a six-year-old boy diagnosed with leukemia.

According to the lawsuit, filed by the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School and the Texas Civil Rights Project, the arrest occurred immediately after their asylum hearing was abruptly dismissed on May 29. The suit alleges violations of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, arguing the family was unlawfully seized and denied due process.

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