by RJ Morales – TX3DNews.com
Last weekend, while most of America looked the other way, something unthinkable happened: U.S. citizen children were deported. Not criminals. Not gang members. American-born toddlers, ripped from their home soil and sent across borders they were never meant to cross. And while none of these cases originated from Collin County, the alarm bells they ring should be impossible for TX-03 residents to ignore.
First, the facts: A two-year-old U.S. citizen known as V.M.L. was deported to Honduras with her mother and 11-year-old sibling, even as her American father’s emergency legal filings to keep her here were ignored. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty expressed “strong suspicion” that the government violated her constitutional rights by deporting a citizen without due process, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Another case saw a four-year-old U.S. citizen, undergoing stage 4 cancer treatment, deported to Honduras with his mother and sibling. No plan for continued medical care was arranged, leaving a gravely ill American child at risk, as reported by Axios.
In a third case, Heidy Sánchez, a Cuban-born mother of a U.S. citizen infant, was deported without being given the chance to arrange custody or care for her American child, according to NBC Miami.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended these actions, stating in a Fox News interview that “Three U.S. citizens, aged 4, 7, and 2 were not deported. Their mothers were legally deported, and the children went with their mothers.” He insisted that the children could return if their citizen fathers or guardians stepped forward.
But Judge Doughty’s concerns remain: Was this truly a choice? Or were these mothers forced into impossible decisions in the panic and confusion of sudden deportation orders, without time to seek help, without real options? The question isn’t just about what the law allows — it’s about whether justice was served.
And let’s be clear: None of the mothers involved had any serious criminal record. No MS-13. No Tren de Aragua. No violent offenders. One mother had an open asylum case; another was seeking lawful permanent residency through her U.S. citizen husband. These were women working, raising families, trying to follow the rules of a system stacked against them. All while protecting their American born children.
Before we rush to say, “but they were criminals,” we need to be honest with ourselves: these women and children were not.
Of course we want violent criminals off our streets. No family in TX-03 wants to live next door to an MS-13 gang member or a Tren de Aragua enforcer. Deporting dangerous felons isn’t just common sense — it’s a duty to protect our communities.
But that’s not what happened here.
What we witnessed was not the removal of threats, but the removal of families who posed none. Mothers and children, swept up by a system too blunt to tell the difference. That’s not justice. That’s a crossroads — a moment that forces TX-03 to ask what kind of community we are choosing to be.
This moment demands honest reflection. Are we building safer communities by tearing apart American families? Or are we losing sight of the very ideals — fairness, opportunity, constitutional protections — that define us as Americans?
Enforcing the law is necessary. Securing the border is necessary. But there is a difference between upholding the law and forgetting why we have laws in the first place. When American citizens — especially young children — become collateral damage, it’s not enforcement anymore. It’s a failure of the very principles we claim to defend.
A two-year-old born in McKinney is every bit as American as a CEO in Frisco. Citizenship is not conditional. Rights are not selective.
The strength of TX-03 has always been rooted in its belief in both accountability and compassion. We believe in the law — but we also believe in justice that honors the dignity of every person. Protecting our borders must never come at the cost of betraying our values.
Because if rights can be easily ignored for some, they can eventually be ignored for all. If we look away now, we may find there’s no one left to defend us when our own rights are on the line.
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by RJ Morales – TX3DNews.com
Last weekend, while most of America looked the other way, something unthinkable happened: U.S. citizen children were deported. Not criminals. Not gang members. American-born toddlers, ripped from their home soil and sent across borders they were never meant to cross. And while none of these cases originated from Collin County, the alarm bells they ring should be impossible for TX-03 residents to ignore.
First, the facts: A two-year-old U.S. citizen known as V.M.L. was deported to Honduras with her mother and 11-year-old sibling, even as her American father’s emergency legal filings to keep her here were ignored. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty expressed “strong suspicion” that the government violated her constitutional rights by deporting a citizen without due process, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Another case saw a four-year-old U.S. citizen, undergoing stage 4 cancer treatment, deported to Honduras with his mother and sibling. No plan for continued medical care was arranged, leaving a gravely ill American child at risk, as reported by Axios.
In a third case, Heidy Sánchez, a Cuban-born mother of a U.S. citizen infant, was deported without being given the chance to arrange custody or care for her American child, according to NBC Miami.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended these actions, stating in a Fox News interview that “Three U.S. citizens, aged 4, 7, and 2 were not deported. Their mothers were legally deported, and the children went with their mothers.” He insisted that the children could return if their citizen fathers or guardians stepped forward.
But Judge Doughty’s concerns remain: Was this truly a choice? Or were these mothers forced into impossible decisions in the panic and confusion of sudden deportation orders, without time to seek help, without real options? The question isn’t just about what the law allows — it’s about whether justice was served.
And let’s be clear: None of the mothers involved had any serious criminal record. No MS-13. No Tren de Aragua. No violent offenders. One mother had an open asylum case; another was seeking lawful permanent residency through her U.S. citizen husband. These were women working, raising families, trying to follow the rules of a system stacked against them. All while protecting their American born children.
Before we rush to say, “but they were criminals,” we need to be honest with ourselves: these women and children were not.
Of course we want violent criminals off our streets. No family in TX-03 wants to live next door to an MS-13 gang member or a Tren de Aragua enforcer. Deporting dangerous felons isn’t just common sense — it’s a duty to protect our communities.
But that’s not what happened here.
What we witnessed was not the removal of threats, but the removal of families who posed none. Mothers and children, swept up by a system too blunt to tell the difference. That’s not justice. That’s a crossroads — a moment that forces TX-03 to ask what kind of community we are choosing to be.
This moment demands honest reflection. Are we building safer communities by tearing apart American families? Or are we losing sight of the very ideals — fairness, opportunity, constitutional protections — that define us as Americans?
Enforcing the law is necessary. Securing the border is necessary. But there is a difference between upholding the law and forgetting why we have laws in the first place. When American citizens — especially young children — become collateral damage, it’s not enforcement anymore. It’s a failure of the very principles we claim to defend.
A two-year-old born in McKinney is every bit as American as a CEO in Frisco. Citizenship is not conditional. Rights are not selective.
The strength of TX-03 has always been rooted in its belief in both accountability and compassion. We believe in the law — but we also believe in justice that honors the dignity of every person. Protecting our borders must never come at the cost of betraying our values.
Because if rights can be easily ignored for some, they can eventually be ignored for all. If we look away now, we may find there’s no one left to defend us when our own rights are on the line.
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