A Honduran mother and her two young children — including a six-year-old leukemia patient — attended an immigration court hearing in Los Angeles on May 29, expecting to make their case for asylum in the United States.
Instead, like hundreds of other immigrants who have attended hearings only to have their cases swiftly dismissed, federal agents arrested the family and placed them in removal proceedings. The woman and her two children were sent to an immigration detention center in rural Texas, roughly 1,300 miles from home.
