'Deported a U.S. citizen': Trump-appointed judge wants ICE to explain removal of 2-year-old

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : In its opposition to the TRO request, ICE said that the girl's mother wanted to take V.M.L. with her back to Honduras, and provided as proof a note written by hand in Spanish.
46% : U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, appointed by Trump in 2018, issued a memorandum order Friday setting a hearing to address the apparent deportation of a 2-year-old identified only as V.M.L. According to a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, or a request that court determine whether a person's detention is unlawful, V.M.L. was born in 2023 in Baton Rouge, as indicated on her birth certificate.
46% : " The judge said in his memo that the handwritten note provided by the government as proof that ICE was doing what V.M.L.'s mother wanted was simply not enough.
43% : A representative "next friend" of the child, who says she has known her since birth, also filed a motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) to block the child's removal, accusing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of engaging in "attempts to disappear" V.M.L., and lying to the child's family and representatives in the process.
27% : A federal judge in Louisiana known for his rulings that tend to align with causes championed by Donald Trump says that the president's administration may have deported a 2-year-old girl who is a U.S. citizen, and has ordered the government to explain itself.

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