Girl, 5, deported to Honduras despite being US citizen, becomes latest victim of Trump crackdown
by Claudia Mendoza in Puerto Cortés, Honduras, and T from US news | The Guardian on (#734KT)
Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative
Five-year-old Genesis Ester Gutierrez Castellanos misses her cousins, classmates and kindergarten teachers in Austin, Texas. Despite being a US citizen, she was deported on 11 January alongside her mother, Karen Guadalupe Gutierrez Castellanos, to Honduras, a country Genesis had never known.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were acting on an administrative deportation order against Gutierrez, 26, issued in 2019, before Genesis was born.
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