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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Claudia Mendoza in Santa Cruz de Yojoa, Honduras, and Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro

Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown

Génesis Gutiérrez Castellanos
‘The day I separate from my daughter will be the most painful of my life,’ Génesis’s mother said. Photograph: Claudia Mendoza

Five-year-old Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos misses her cousins, classmates and kindergarten teachers in Austin, Texas. Despite being a US citizen, she was deported on 11 January alongside her mother, Karen Guadalupe Gutiérrez Castellanos, to Honduras, a country Génesis had never known.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were acting on an administrative deportation order against Gutiérrez, 26, issued in 2019, before Génesis was born.

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