Trump regime kidnaps and deports US citizen children—Trump officials must be prosecuted for this!

We need a Nuremberg type trials

A four-year old child with Stage 4 cancer—who is a U.S. citizen—kidnapped and deported by the Trump regime against his mother’s objections. ICE agents raid the home of US citizens in Oklahoma—traumatizing the family. Trump regime lies that hundreds deported to prison in El Salvador were “all criminals” and Trump is now bragging that he refuses to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court order to return one of those wrongly deported.

This is what we’ve seen in just the past few weeks from the Trump regime as Trump backed henchmen under the color of law are violating our Constitution on almost a daily basis. Trump and all in his regime involved in these crimes from Marco Rubio to Trump’s border czar Tom Homan must be criminally prosecuted. The question of course though is will they ever be held accountable?!

The case that grabbed headlines over the weekend is especially heartbreaking. Three children—all U.S. citizens--were kidnapped and deported by the Trump regime to Honduras. (And I choose the word “kidnap” very carefully as a lawyer and based on the facts we now know.) One of those children is a 4-year-old boy with Stage 4 cancer who was deported depriving him of access to his cancer medicines and doctor.

The Trump regime officials repeatedly told us that the two mothers of these children had demanded that their children to go with them. But lawyers for the family say that is lie.

Sirine Shebaya, executive director of National Immigration Project stated point blank on MSNBC Tuesday that the mother of the four year old child with cancer vocally objected—saying she wanted the child to remain in America for medical care. But the Trump regime didn’t care and instead deported the child along with his seven-year-old sister.

Gracie Willis, also an attorney with the National Immigration Project, who represents the 2-year-old U.S. citizen who was deported said that “at every single point ICE denied anybody the ability to know where this family was, denied everybody the ability to contact with them and communicate with them.” She added that the child’s father “barely had any opportunity to speak with the mother about what was best for the child before an ICE officer hung up the phone as he tried to give her the number for an attorney.” In other words, the mother was coerced into taking the child.

Yet there were Trump regime officials doubling down on their lies—repeating that both mothers willingly consented to take the children. The always callous Trump border henchmen Tom Homan remarked about the deportations, “Having a U.S. citizen child after you enter this country illegally is not a get-out-of-jail-free card.”

Another lie by the Trump regime was that both mothers were “illegals.” But as the National Immigration Project’s executive director, Sirine Shebaya explained on MSNBC Tuesday, that was again a lie. One mother had an asylum application pending and the other was brought to the country as unaccompanied minor years ago. And both were enrolled in the ICE program known as Intensive Supervision Appearance Program, or ISAP, which ICE explains on its agency’s website is designed to enable “aliens to remain in their communities — contributing to their families and community organizations and, as appropriate, concluding their affairs in the U.S. — as they move through immigration proceedings or prepare for departure.”

The two mothers--as part of this program—were checking in as required with immigration officials as they had done in the past. But this time ICE agents were waiting for them and whisked them away denying them a chance to talk to lawyers before being placed on a plane to Honduras.

The facts of this case are so egregious that a Trump-appointed federal judge, Terry Doughty, issued an order Friday that noted he had a “strong suspicion that the government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.” As the Judge remarked, “It is illegal and unconstitutional to deport, detain for deportation, or recommend deportation of a U.S. citizen.” Yes, it’s illegal to do what the Trump regime just did.

Then there was the traumatizing ICE raid in Oklahoma of a family because ICE officials didn’t care enough to ensure they were targeting the right people. As Oklahoma News 4 reported on Tuesday, a mother and their three daughters were sleeping in their rented a house in Oklahoma on Thursday only to be awoken by 20 armed federal agents from ICE and other agencies breaking down the door. The mother repeatedly told the agents: “We are US citizens!” and that the names on the warrant were not theirs--but the ICE agents did not care. She explained that the agents then ordered her and her daughters outside into the rain before they could even put on clothes.

At that point the federal agents, “tore apart every square inch of the house and what few belongings they had, seizing their phones, laptops and their life savings in cash as “evidence.” (The news story video backs up how agents ransacked the house.) The mother told the local news outlet, “I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here.” She added, “I have to feed my children. I’m going to need gas money. I need to be able to get around. Like, how do you just leave me like this? Like an abandoned dog.” The ICE agents didn’t care, instead saying they would get their belongings back in “days or it could be months.”

Then there’s Abrego Garcia and the others sent to a prison in El Salvador. The Trump regime claimed all of the nearly 250 people shipped to this notorious prison were “criminals.” But as CBS’s “60 Minutes” recently reported, 75 percent of those arrested did not have a criminal record. Instead, CBS reported what they found was that the prisoners included “a makeup artist, a soccer player and a food delivery driver, being held in a place so harsh that El Salvador's justice minister once said the only way out is in a coffin.”

In addition, despite the US Supreme Court ruling 9 to 0 nearly three weeks ago that the Trump regime must “facilitate” the return of Garcia because his constitutional right of due process was violated, they have taken zero steps to comply with this order. In fact, on Tuesday, Trump boasted to ABC News’s Terry Moran that he could bring Garcia back to the U.S. but he refuses to do that.

The Trump regime should rightfully end with Nuremberg type trials like after World War II where Nazi officials were tried for crimes against humanity. The result was that many former Nazi officials were convicted and sentenced to prison--or to death. While I’m not certain where the Trump regime will go over the next few years—if the first 100 days are any indication—they will even more brazenly violate US and international law. The only way to prevent this from happening with future administrations is with the prosecution of Trump officials to hold them accountable for their crimes.

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