ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation | American Civil Liberties Union

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : " Gracie Willis, National Immigration Project - "What we saw from ICE over the last several days is horrifying and baffling.
50% : ICE detained the first family on Tuesday, April 22, and the second family on Thursday, April 24.
48% : We should be gravely concerned that ICE has been given tacit approval to both detain and deport U.S. citizen children despite the availability and willingness of U.S.-based caregivers who, only because of ICE's own actions, cannot find or contact them.
46% : In both cases, ICE held the families incommunicado, refusing or failing to respond to multiple attempts by attorneys and family members to contact them.
45% : Both families have possible immigration relief, but because ICE denied them access to their attorneys, legal counsel was unable to assist and advise them in time.
44% : In the case of the other family, a U.S. citizen child suffering from a rare form of metastatic cancer was deported without medication or the ability to consult with their treating physicians-despite ICE being notified in advance of the child's urgent medical needs.
40% : In addition, one of the mothers who was deported is pregnant, and ICE proceeded with her deportation without ensuring any continuity of prenatal care or medical oversight.
39% : NOLA ICE has inflicted harm and jeopardized the lives and health of vulnerable children and a pregnant woman.
37% : Instead, just after close of business and after courts closed for the day, ICE suddenly reversed course and informed counsel that the family would be deported at 6am the next morning-before the court reopened.

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