ICE deports the mother of a breastfeeding infant and a 2-year-old who is a US citizen

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53% : Cañizares said she told ICE that she was planning to reopen Sánchez' case to help her remain in the U.S. legally, but ICE told her that Sánchez can pursue the case while she's in Cuba.
52% : Cuba apparently refused to accept Sanchez back at the time, so Sanchez was released in 2020 and ordered to maintain a regular schedule of check-ins with ICE, Cañizares said.
50% : Sánchez is not a criminal and has a strong case on humanitarian grounds for allowing her to stay in the U.S., Cañizares said, but ICE isn't taking that into consideration when it has to meet what the lawyer said were deportation benchmarks.
48% : " In a Thursday court filing, lawyers for the father said ICE indicated that it was holding the 2-year-old girl in a bid to induce the father to turn himself in.
47% : HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have in recent days deported the breastfeeding Cuban-born mother of a 1-year-old girl, separating them indefinitely, and in another case a 2-year-old girl who is a U.S. citizen along with her Honduran-born mother, their lawyers say.
40% : " Lawyers for the girl's father insisted he wanted the girl to remain with him in the U.S., while ICE contended the mother had wanted the girl to be deported with her to Honduras, claims that weren't fully vetted by U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty in Louisiana.
23% : Cañizares said she tried to file paperwork with ICE to contest the deportation Thursday morning but ICE refused to accept it, saying Sánchez was already gone, although Cañizares said she doesn't think that was true.

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