U.S. citizen children, including 4-year-old with cancer, deported to Honduras, legal advocates say

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Gracie Willis, an attorney with the organization, told NBC News that the boy and and his 7-year-old sister were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday.
42% : The National Immigration Project said the women were in incommunicado detention by ICE, making them unreachable by lawyers or family members.
42% : Representatives for ICE did not immediately respond to a NBC News request for comment.
40% : Recent headlines have highlighted U.S. citizens being mistakenly detained by ICE and, in some instances, receiving official paperwork incorrectly telling them to leave the country.
36% : The National Immigration Project has accused ICE of violating its own mandates on the "coordination for the care of minor children with willing caretakers -- regardless of immigration status -- when deportations are being carried out.
36% : " Willis accused the government of "purposefully manipulating facts," calling it an "absurdity" that ICE was the sole conduit for expressing the mothers' wishes.

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