The Republicans who chose Donald Trump to be president of the United States must be over-the-moon delighted to see his administration addressing the greatest threat America faces: children who are U.S. citizens.
That’s right. We recently learned a 2-year-old, a 7-year-old and a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer – all citizens – were whisked out of the country April 25 and deposited in Honduras with their mothers, who were being deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Regarding the 2-year-old, who, if I’m sure, posed the biggest threat of them all, a Trump-appointed federal judge wrote that he has a “strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.” The child’s father wanted her to remain with him in the United States, but the mother and child were spirited away with a speed that tells you all you need to know about the process.
Now I assume from their lack of outrage that Republican lawmakers are in favor of citizen-toddlers being denied due process. I mean, have these kids really earned it yet?
I also assume folks out there cheering on Trump in the face of all available evidence and pitiful polling numbers – he has the lowest 100-day approval rating of any president in 80 years – are okey dokey with ICE creating situations like this, described by the ACLU as: 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.”