Three US citizen children, one with cancer, deported to Honduras, lawyers say
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Three young children who are US citizens - including one with cancer - were deported to Honduras alongside their mothers last week, according to advocacy groups and the families' lawyers.
One of the children is a four-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was sent without medication, a lawyer for the child's family said.
Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan said the mothers had made the choice for their citizen children to be removed with them. "Having a US citizen child does not make you immune from our laws," he said, adding the mothers were in the US illegally.
Trump faced a backlash during his first term for a policy that separated thousands of children from their parents...
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