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Can US Citizens Legally Be Deported?

Plus, what rights do noncitizens have?

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Sharon McMahon
May 09, 2025
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The United States recently deported three young children, all three of them citizens of the United States. One has metastatic cancer and was sent away without their treatment medications. Their mothers — citizens of Honduras — were in the US without authorization, and the children’s removal raises profound legal questions about the rights of minor citiz…

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