Trump Admin Deports 2-Year-Old Girl Who Is American Citizen
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Manu’s parents were undocumented, but she was born in the United States.

A 2-year-old American girl has been left stateless after the Trump administration deported her alongside her family.

Emanuelly Borges Santos, known to her family as Manu, was born in a Florida hospital in 2022. She has an American passport and a Social Security card. Nevertheless, Manu and her parents, who are both undocumented, were packed onto a plane with 94 others and shipped to Brazil in February, according to a report from The Washington Post.

When they arrived, Brazilian officials were shocked to find the American toddler among the deportees.

“We’d never seen another case like this,” federal police officer Alexsandra Oliveira Medeiros Reis told the Post.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    20 days ago

    There really is no good answer to the problem Trump has created here:

    1. Deport a US citizen because her parents are undocumented.

    2. Deport the parents and put the kid in a cage foster care, separating the family.

    3. Deny her birthright citizenship.

    4. Acknowledge that the parents are undocumented but allow them to stay because “anchor baby”.

    Really what needs to happen is you give the parents a path to citizenship, but Trump would never allow that.

    • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com
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      20 days ago

      I think “good answer” really depends on your values. If I hate people from or with heritage from South America or Africa or whatever other place, then it’s probably great that the government is illegally deporting citizens with that background. Unfortunately, that’s where a lot of people are. Admittedly, they’re also ok with denying birthright citizenship.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      I see a fifth option. All US passports include this message:

      The Secretary of State of the United States of America hereby requests all whom it may concern to permit the citizen/national of the United States named herein to pass without delay or hindrance and in case of need to give all lawful aid and protection.

      So, since Marco Rubio is so concerned with all US citizens’ lawful aid and protection, someone should escort her back to the US, drop her off with her US passport at the Rubio house, and tell Marco that it’s his job to help her out. It says it right there!