The narrative pushed by the unconventional Left simply blew up in spectacular trend.
The Gateway Pundit beforehand reported {that a} federal decide, Terry Doughty—a Trump appointee in Louisiana—rebuked the Division of Justice for failing to make sure what he referred to as “significant course of” within the deportation of a Honduran lady and her youngsters, together with a 2-year-old recognized in court docket as “VML.”
Choose Doughty even scheduled a listening to for Might 16, stating it was “within the curiosity of dispelling our sturdy suspicion that the federal government simply deported a U.S. citizen with no significant course of.”
That sparked a media firestorm.
Far-left shops and liberal speaking heads pounced, breathlessly repeating claims that the Trump administration heartlessly deported a U.S.-born baby with out due course of. The ACLU adopted go well with, launching a lawsuit to additional inflame the outrage machine.
However now, your complete narrative has collapsed.
Right here’s what they didn’t inform you.
The mom, Jenny Carolina Lopez-Villela, a serial border jumper who entered the U.S. illegally 3 times in simply two years, explicitly requested that her daughters—together with the U.S.-born toddler—return along with her to Honduras.
A handwritten letter, in Spanish, from Lopez-Villela to ICE learn: “I’ll take my daughter with me to Honduras.”
The mom made her selection. DHS honored it. However the ACLU, determined to stoke outrage and rating factors with their open-borders base, spun a false story—and acquired caught.
Now, the ACLU has quietly dropped its lawsuit.
In accordance with DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, “The ACLU dropped its lawsuit on the false claims that DHS deported a U.S. citizen.
“The reality is, and has all the time been, that the mom—who was within the nation illegally—selected to carry her 2-year-old along with her to Honduras when she was eliminated. The narrative that DHS is deporting American youngsters is fake and irresponsible.”
Extra from the press release:
The mum or dad, Jenny Carolina Lopez-Villela , made the choice to take her baby to Honduras. ICE asks mother and father in the event that they wish to be eliminated with their youngsters or in the event that they want to place a baby with somebody the mum or dad designates. On this case, the mum or dad said they wished to be eliminated with their baby.
Jenny Carolina Lopez-Villela illegally entered this nation 3 times in September 2019, March of 2021, and August 2021. She and her older daughter had been deemed inadmissible to the US the primary time she entered the nation and each her and her daughter got closing orders of elimination in March 2020. When she was taken into ICE custody in April 2025, she selected to carry her youthful daughter, who’s an American Citizen, along with her to Honduras and introduced a legitimate United States passport.
DHS takes its accountability to guard youngsters critically and can proceed to work with federal legislation enforcement to make sure that youngsters are secure and guarded. Mother and father, who’re right here illegally, can take management of their departure. The CBP Dwelling app provides mother and father illegally within the nation an opportunity to take full management of their departure and self-deport, with the potential capability to return the authorized, proper method and are available again to stay the American dream. It’s free and obtainable for all cell units.
