Prevent unconstitutional deportations of U.S. citizen children

Congress must take action to prevent the unjust deportation of U.S. citizens and their family members. Recent reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deporting a 1-year-old American infant along with her Cuban mother, as well as three U.S. citizen children ages 2, 4, and 7 being deported with their Honduran mothers, are deeply concerning violations of their fundamental rights. These cases demonstrate an alarming disregard for due process and a failure to properly consider the best interests of American citizen children. Deporting U.S. citizens, even minors, goes against our core values as a nation. Separating infant children from their parents and deporting them to foreign countries they have never known is an unconscionable act that can inflict severe trauma. Citizen children should never be forcibly separated from loving parents in the U.S. without adequate legal safeguards. Congress has a duty to conduct rigorous oversight into these disturbing deportations and ensure ICE policies fully comply with the constitutional rights of citizens. Clear statutory protections should be established to prevent citizens, especially children, from being wrongfully deported without a fair opportunity to contest their removal. No American family should have to endure the nightmare of illegally losing their citizen children to deportation.