https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2025-07-03/ice-releases-6-year-old-with-leukemia-from-detention-following-lawsuit-public-outcry

Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday released a Honduran family — including a 6-year-old boy with leukemia and his 9-year-old sister — following a lawsuit and mounting public pressure.

The story captured attention for being a stark contradiction from President Trump's promise to target "violent criminals" in mass deportations.

In this case, a mother and her two children showed up to Los Angeles Immigration Court to make their case for asylum.

Like thousands of immigrants across the country, they saw their case quickly dismissed — with ICE agents waiting to arrest them in the hallway.

They were detained and transferred to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas, where they were held for the last month. During that time, the 6-year-old missed a medical appointment in Los Angeles to be treated for leukemia.

That's when the Texas Civil Rights Project and Columbia University Immigrant Rights Clinic stepped in and filed a lawsuit on their behalf in federal court in San Antonio.

“This family’s release shows that ICE responds to public pressure. When people across the nation expressed concern about this family being snatched out of their community, subject to arrest at a courthouse and detention for weeks, ICE released them," said Elora Mukherjee, director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic.

The family had crossed the border legally in October of last year for a court appointment through the now-defunct CBP One App to seek asylum due to threats of violence in Honduras.

They were granted parole status in the U.S. and had been staying with a relative in Los Angeles for the previous seven months — where they had become embedded in the community.

"It was terrifying for the children and their mother and their community to have this family who is doing all the right things forcibly disappeared," Mukherjee said.

During their detention in Dilley, questions arose about the treatment of the family — especially the child with leukemia.

In its court filing, lawyers for the family said the mother "must watch her children suffer while [the boy] exhibits concerning symptoms of a deadly disease, and she is left powerless to ensure that he receives specialized medical treatment."

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, responded to this characterization in a statement on X, saying it "prioritizes the health, safety, and well-being of all detainees in its care."

"At no time during detention is a detained individual denied emergency care," the post said. "Fortunately, the minor child in question has not undergone chemotherapy in over a year and has been seen regularly by medical personnel since arriving at the Dilley facility."

Lawyers for the family said they heard from people across the country asking how they could help after news of the arrest and detention.

DHS did not respond to a request for comment about the family's release, but the lawyers say they believe public outcry played a role.

"We're really grateful for all the people who responded to this case, and who cared about this family across Texas and across the nation, because it really did have an impact. ICE responded to public pressure," said Kate Gibson Kumar, staff attorney for the Texas Civil Rights Project's Beyond Borders program.

The family is staying at a shelter in South Texas following their release on Wednesday evening. The mother plans to return to Los Angeles and continue trying to seek asylum in the United States.

"They're making their way back and hopefully going to continue to live a normal life — going to church, going to school, doing all of their recreational activities that they love to do, which involves playing soccer and painting, and just spending time with their family and friends there, and, of course, continuing forward with their asylum case."

The future of the family's lawsuit challenging the Trump administration policy is unclear as the relief they sought was their immediate release.

Legal challenges to the ICE courthouse arrest directive continue in several jurisdictions across the country.

"The family’s arrest and detention were in flagrant violation of the U.S. Constitution’s protections and federal law. We must stand together and speak out against unlawful, unconstitutional and un-American policies that inflict cruelty on children and families," Mukherjee said. "On this July 4th, let’s remember that the choices we collectively make determine what our nation is and what our nation becomes."
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>stories that will make you go 'fuck borders and laws and shieet'

>>1418154
Silly anon. If you in fact care about laws, why don't you care that their family entered legally?

>>1418172
>entered legally
Why were they being deported then?

I. C. E. Released her because there was no need to stick her into the oven because she'll be dead soon anyway

>>1418175
It's like ICE has top-down directives to abuse their power as long as they don't get too much litigation pushback. Strange isn't it.

>>1418183
On top of that they hired a bunch of poorly-trained morons who couldn't cut it in police departments and think it's their job to act like stormtroopers.

I'm safe. ICE will never come for me. Even if they banish every single person who doesn't vote GOP, I'm still safe. Even if they then start banishing GOP voters who don't contribute to the RNC, I'm still safe for awhile.

When they start upping the minimum contribution under threat of banishment, I might have to take out a few loans once in awhile, but I'm still safe. Right?

>>1418261
Stormtroops had strict leadership. ICE is able to do whtat they please without restriction. They are a terrorist organization.

>>1418265
Palantir is making a list of every time an antisemitic meme was posted from an IP address assigned to you.

>>1418183
>>1418261
They wouldn't be arrested by ICE if they were here legally.

>>1418279
you're literally not american

>>1418279
Yes they would. ICE is corrupt.

>>1418283
For what purpose?
Why would Sanchez deport Ramirez?

>>1418284
A xenophobe named Stephen Miller calls the shots.

>>1418285
Stephen Miller is a Jew. How can a Jew be racist?

>>1418286
Netanyahu showed them the way

>>1418284
Racism and power.

>>1418286
Easily.

>>1418287
So is this how it all works out? Republicans are still racist even if they're deporting people of the same race?

>>1418289
They’re not.

>>1418286
More proof jews are white

>>1418280
Do you identify as an American?
Are you trans-american?

gutter-brained esl shill thinks he's funny

>>1418295
Did you know the portmanteau of Transsexual and Nigger is trigger?
Are you triggered?

i rest my case

>>1418297
>moot made an entire board specifically for politically incorrect idiots to shitpost on
>politically incorrect idiots don't use it and shit up every other board instead
Why is this?

>>1418300
Did you actually expect a safe space on 4chan?

>>1418300
so you denouce pol, polfag?

>>1418301
I expected the politically incorrect idiots to stay on /pol/ - politically incorrect, kind of like how wrestling enthusiasts stay on /pw/ and music fans stay on /mu/.

>>1418303
What?

>>1418304
Anon, I've had conversations here with other anons who sacrificed live animals in magical rituals to try to spread ebola through africa.
If nigger makes you uncomfortable then you're not too far gone. Leave while you can.

>>1418305
It's not that it makes me uncomfortable, it's that it doesn't belong here, like posting anime or horsefuckers doesn't belong here.

We have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time, people that whack people over the head with a baseball bat from behind when they're not looking and kill them. People that knife you when you're walking down the street of our dirty democrat cities.

They're not new to our country, they're old to our country, many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here, too, if you want to know the truth. Them and their democrat bosses. I think they belong in the camps with the rest. So maybe that'll be the next job that Trump'll and the rest of America will work on together.

>>1418279
ICE literally stops people on the street and detains them for being brown. You can find videos of this all over the internet. They dont even give you an opportunity to show your ID, or if they do they tell you its fake. And theyre only doing this because they have to fill their quotas, and because they face no consequences whatsoever.

>>1418319
>ICE literally stops people on the street and detains them for being brown
And they have an astonishingly high success rate.
Really makes you think.

>>1418328
At detaining brown people? Yeah, it really does.

>>1418330
The fact that they can just do random stops and have a 90% success rate should highlight the problem we have with illegal immigration

>>1418333
>actually believing Dog Shooter Barbie's quoted statistics
lol

>>1418333
I'm sure the guys grabbing people off the screen for being brown and not even bothering to check IDs and who have actual arrest quotas to fill are 100% truthful about their results.

They plan on deporting babies that are born in America next month. I wonder if they will shove them back inside the mother's vaginas?

>>1418328

• ICE arrested 95,629 individuals from January 2017 to June 10, 2025, with 71.7% having no criminal record.
• ICE detention population was 56,397 on June 15, 2025, with only 7% having violent convictions.
• DHS Secretary Kristi Noem claimed over 150,000 arrests by April 2025; independent data shows 95,629 arrests.

>>1418354
Source?
Also, who has independent records of this and why should they be trusted? Seems like an impossible thing to get an accurate count of without using official numbers

>>1418333
>Ice can stop anyone on the street and throw them into an unmarked van
>no due process so they dont even need to charge you with anything to detain you or send you wherever they want
>high success rate as a result
It really does make you think, for all the 2 seconds needed to figure this out

>>1418368
>Source
ICE

>>1418371
Biden's ICE or Trump's ICE? There is a big difference.

>>1418354
Detained isn't the same as being arrested. If they were arrested, then they had a good reason to be arrested.

>>1418373
How the fuck would Biden's ICE be giving arrest numbers for Trump's ICE in the year of our lord 2025?

>>1418378
>from January 2017 to June 10, 2025,
So it's the reverse of that.

>>1418154
I'm anarchist so yes

>>1418384
That tracks.
Fuck leftists.

>thinking our inefficient and ineffective government organizations can pull off a massive operation like this and NOT fuck it up constantly
Kek @ anyone who thinks our goverment agencies are competent. Thats a good laugh

>>1418151 (OP)
>This family’s release shows that ICE responds to public pressure
>the subhumans of IC so much as thinking of detaining this family
Anyone else affected, get yourself a good lawyer and sue ICE into oblivion until they as an entity cease to exist. Because Trump's ICE never had the right to exist in the first place

>>1418151 (OP)
>This family’s release shows that ICE responds to public pressure
>the subhumans of ICE thinking they had the right to so much as think of detaining this family
Anyone else affected, get yourself a good lawyer and sue ICE into oblivion until they as an entity cease to exist. Because Trump's ICE never had the right to exist in the first place

>>1418414
They can just ignore the courts and due process now.

>>1418304
Politically incorrect is a pun. It doesn't mean liberal safe space. If you can't handle people with different view points, then you're the one that needs to leave. That's why they made Bluesky for your kind

>>1418434
cool headcanon, gramps

>>1418414
It's going to be a long four years for your kind

>>1418412
The government was much more competent before the irrational government-hating billionaires took over in January and started firing the competent workers.

>>1418434
Everyone be sure to point and laugh at this confused poster who thinks he's on /pol/ right now.

>>1418436
Just wait until Trump starts throwing antisemites like you in the same camps with the immigrants.

>>1418436
>Minnesota
>Democrats gaining in even deep red areas in special elections
It'll be a short year to the midterms for MAGAtards to be eating crow flavored lame duck a l'orange. Those Republicans suffering before Trump becoming Kim Don-un the Little Bomber Man and those saying 'I didn't vote for this', thus them and the hardcore cultists eating each other while leopards ate their faces. Those suffering & disillusioned: why should they listen to your opinions here in /news/ and not get their revenge by destroying Trump electorally next year?
Now and said midterms. Tick-tock, tick-tock.

>>1418438
>why should they listen to your opinions here in /news/ and not get their revenge by destroying Trump electorally next year?
Because they're running on a party platform of unlimited illegals, treating criminals as victim and coercing Americans to accept gay race communism.

Your party position is that deporting rapists is bad and making money is evil. You're a fucking idiot, basically.

>>1418451
Not him but everyone is tired of your strawmen. It's like you get everything you know about democrats from Steve Bannon.

>>1418451
...and you'll always be shit out of luck in getting others to so much as acknowledge that your wrong opinions exist when 99.999999999% of said Republicans who are suffering/said 'I didn't vote for this' don't even know 4chan exists, least of all /news/ for them to be swayed by what you subjectively think are 'superior' opinions. After all: they're not you. You're not suffering/feeling betrayed as they are if you're an American, that is. They are, you clearly aren't . So again, why should they allow your retarded pro-Trump opinions to exist in their minds, little cultist?
They voted for a party position that was 'No More Foreign Wars' and fix the post-Biden economy so that said voters wouldn't suffer. So why shouldn't they get their revenge next year after they were lied to and made to suffer for the benefit of billionaires? You tell them, not me. And you're not going to persuade them by continuing to exist in 4chan. You'll have to put in the work in persuading them to not Vengeance Vote in the midterms by not being terminally online here in /news/, little MAGAtard. You'll actually have to stop using that computer/phone of yours and go out and talk to each & every one of those Republican voters about why they shouldn't get their revenge on your orange god in the midterms next year.

>>1418451
Good post

>>1418451
>>1418455
Get a room you two

>>1418452
>strawmen
>literally admit to subverting all norms and trying to destroy america
https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1941456225033728366

>>1418459
>random xshitter post
This is why you no one listens to you.

if a white child had leukemia the left wouldn't care. just stating facts.

>>1418466
A white child wouldn't have been abducted by ICE in the first place, moron.

>>1418468
Do white people actually come to America and have anchor babies? I literally can't find any news articles about it in the news.
I think it's a very niche demographic

>>1418466
And an orange rightard cares less about white people drowned in Texas. Said orange rightard gives absolutely no fucks for white people who aren't billionaires . Just stating facts

>>1418471
Just ask Worst Lady Melania

If Republicans were trees they'd all be big ones because I wish they'd all leave (leaf) the country and they're all bark

>>1418466
MAGAtards trying to 'no u' being racist cunts will never not be funny.

>>1418151 (OP)
Did the Trump administration actually deported any real "violent criminals" so far? I mean with proof and so on, not just by saying these people they deport are criminals. I mean the really heavy cons, Mafia and gang bosses, terrorists etc.. it's OK to get rid of those. It's not OK when innocent sick children are treated like criminals.
Better spent the resources and taxpayer's money on the real criminals would be an good idea.

>>1418522
>Did the Trump administration actually deported any real "violent criminals" so far?
Trumpy's still trying to find those pesky Mexican gang members who have 'MS-13' tattooed on their knuckles and that's the actual numbers & letters, not symbols that could mean anything

>>1418471
It's very rare, I'm willing to wager most "anchor babies" are circumstantial and I mean that they just happen to be pregnant when they're crossing because it takes a while to plan it out/wait for the coyotes' timeline to leave

>>1418558
>most "anchor babies" are circumstantial
and virtually none of them are vasectemal

>>1418558
Planned anchor babies are common on tourist visas.