ICE agents deported five‑year‑old US citizen Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos and her mother Karen Guadalupe Gutiérrez Castellanos from Austin, Texas to Honduras on Jan. 11. The mother had an outstanding 2019 administrative deportation order and was still awaiting U‑visa adjudication. They were held in a hotel near San Antonio for almost a week without access to counsel or a judicial hearing. The deportation followed a disturbance at the mother’s home that triggered an ICE warrant. Activists point to procedural violations and cite similar child detentions. The mother, who said she had lived in fear of ICE raids, now says she will send her daughter back to the US with another relative. The case has drawn attention to the Trump administration’s mass‑deportation policy.

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