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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Marc Levy

ICE deports the mother of a breastfeeding infant and a 2-year-old who is a US citizen

Immigration-Mothers-Deported - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have in recent days deported the breastfeeding Cuban-born mother of a 1-year-old girl, separating them indefinitely, and in another case a 2-year-old girl who is a U.S. citizen along with her Honduran-born mother, their lawyers say.

Both cases raise questions about who is being deported, and why, and come amid a battle in federal courts over whether President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has gone too far and too quickly at the expense of fundamental rights.

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