#usdeportation

In a move that has drawn widespread condemnation, a 2 year old citizen deported with her mother by New Orleans ICE officials on Friday highlights troubling due process issues under President Trump’s immigration crackdown. According to the ACLU of Louisiana, two U.S. citizen children—a two-year-old and her siblings, aged four and seven—were abruptly removed from the country, despite one child undergoing treatment for metastatic cancer and another mother being pregnant.

The supreme court has granted President Donald Trump permission to invoke the rarely‑used wartime law—the Alien Enemies Act—to deport alleged gang members. Originally enacted in 1798 amid fears of war with France, this century‑old law now finds new application in contemporary immigration enforcement.