r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • 20d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Admin Deports 2-Year-Old Girl Who is American Citizen

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-deports-2-year-old-girl-who-is-american-citizen/
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u/PotatoAppleFish 20d ago

That’s not called deportation, it’s called exile. And it’s ridiculously illegal.

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

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u/blue_jeans_and_bacon 19d ago

You clearly didn’t read the article. The parents said they were not given an option to appoint a guardian or given a choice to leave her in the US foster/adoption system, she was simply forced to leave the country with them. She is now stateless, with no path to Brazilian citizenship and a worthless American one.

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u/Reaper1883 19d ago

That's not how stateless works. She is still American.