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Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown
Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative
Claudia Mendoza in Santa Cruz de Yojoa, Honduras, and Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro
The day I separate from my daughter will be the most painful of my life,’ Génesis’s mother said. Photograph: Claudia Mendoza
Five-year-old Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos misses her cousins, classmates and kindergarten teachers in Austin, Texas. Despite being a US citizen, she was deported on 11 January alongside her mother, Karen Guadalupe Gutiérrez Castellanos, to Honduras, a country Génesis had never known.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were acting on an administrative deportation order against Gutiérrez, 26, issued in 2019, before Génesis was born.
“I kept telling them ‘the girl was born here’. They didn’t care, they picked up the child, just put a jumper on her and told me to get into the car with her,” Gutiérrez told the Guardian.
The two were held for almost a week in a hotel 80 miles from their home, without access to a lawyer or a hearing before a judge, before being deported to the Central American country.
Activists and analysts point to a string of procedural violations in the case and note similarities with other recent detentions of children, such as that of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in Minneapolis. They see it as a chilling indication of what may lie ahead as Donald Trump’s administration continues with mass deportations.
Gutiérrez had been living in the US since 2018 after leaving Santa Cruz de Yojoa, a Honduran city of about 100,000 people, to “escape poverty and build a prosperous future”, she said. She received a deportation order a year later but remained in the country and in 2020 Génesis was born.
Gutiérrez said she separated from the girl’s father after suffering repeated abuse and applied for a U visa, designed to assist non-citizen victims of qualifying crimes such as domestic violence and sexual assault. There is a severe backlog in processing such applications and, like tens of thousands of others, Karen’s case was still pending.
Despite what she described as a “beautiful and stable life” in which Génesis was growing up surrounded by uncles and cousins, Gutiérrez, who worked as a cleaner, said she was living in constant fear amid an increase in ICE raids. “I would get into my car to go to work and I felt afraid that someone was behind me and would stop and arrest me,” she said.
In early January, Gutiérrez was hosting a friend who had also been a victim of domestic violence when the alleged perpetrator turned up, and the former couple had a heated argument.
They went back inside and Gutiérrez said she was asleep in another room when officers from the Austin police department knocked on the door responding to the disturbance. According to a statement, police said they “discovered an active ICE warrant” and notified the agency.
Mother and daughter were taken by ICE to the neighbouring city of San Antonio and held in a hotel, where Gutiérrez said she was not allowed to call her family until three days after being detained. According to the Texas-based NGO Grassroots Leadership, which first reported the case, she was reportedly instructed not to share her location.
An immigration attorney tried to intervene but ICE agents reportedly said they could not locate the pair in the agency’s database, which some believe may have been a deliberate consequence of holding them in a hotel rather than a detention centre.
Kathleen Bush-Joseph, an analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, said: “The inability to locate people in the system, and the fact that lawyers cannot reach them to provide proper representation, is unfortunately happening more and more, and it directly undermines immigrants’ rights.”
ICE did not respond to a request for comment.
Gutiérrez’s next call to her family came days later after she and Génesis had landed in Honduras. Since then, the two have been staying with Gutiérrez’s mother. Because Génesis is a US citizen, Gutiérrez said she had taken the “painful” decision to send the girl back to the US soon, accompanied by another relative.
“She has her school there, her uncles, her cousins, her whole life, because she was born there and she doesn’t want to be here,” Gutiérrez said, adding that they had never been apart before. “The day I separate from my daughter will be the most painful of my life but I will do it for her future.”
She vowed not to give up on returning to the US to reunite with her daughter. “I will seek help, lawyers, everything. I will fight until God tells me ‘that’s enough, Karen’.”
Last May, also in Austin, a mother and her three children, two of whom were US citizens, were arrested by ICE agents and deported to Mexico.
On inauguration day, Trump signed an executive order seeking to end the 150-year-old policy of birthright citizenship, but judges across the US issued injunctions blocking it, saying it violated the constitution, federal law and supreme court precedent. The court is expected to hear the case this year.
The Migration Policy Institute estimates that of the 6.3 million children under the age of 18 living with at least one unauthorised immigrant parent in the US, 5.3 million are US citizens.
“Families are facing extremely difficult choices over whether or not to stay together,” Bush-Joseph said. She said that given Trump’s focus on mass deportations, “I do unfortunately anticipate that there will be more of these very difficult situations where parents are being deported and their children are either left behind or removed from the lives they knew in the US”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-girl-us-citizen-and-mother-deported-honduras
I don’t believe any of these stories
Does she have a birth certificate?
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FYI all.
Based on 2025-2026 contract data, the massive increase in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spending - fueled by a surge in detention capacity and, by January 2026, a 120% increase in workforce since July 2025 - has been directed toward a mix of major private prison firms, technology companies, and smaller, specialized entities.
Key contractors receiving significant awards include:
1. Detention and "E-carceration" (Private Prisons & Technology)
3. Recruitment and Staffing
Several of the major ICE contractors have significant financial, political, or professional ties to Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
Private Detention Giants
The two largest private prison operators, GEO Group and CoreCivic, are among the most prominent corporate backers of the Trump administration's immigration agenda.
TLDR: ICE contractors have significant financial, political, or professional ties to Donald Trump
Based on 2025-2026 contract data, the massive increase in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spending - fueled by a surge in detention capacity and, by January 2026, a 120% increase in workforce since July 2025 - has been directed toward a mix of major private prison firms, technology companies, and smaller, specialized entities.
Key contractors receiving significant awards include:
1. Detention and "E-carceration" (Private Prisons & Technology)
- GEO Group: As ICE’s largest contractor, they secured contracts for four new detention facilities in 2025, expected to generate over $240 million in annual revenue. Their subsidiary, BI Inc., holds a $2.2 billion contract for electronic monitoring (ankle monitors/surveillance).
- CoreCivic: Reopened multiple facilities (including in Texas and Kansas) and has reported a "pivotal moment for funding" under new budget allocations.
- LaSalle Corrections: Received a contract worth up to $125 million to build a new detention center.
- Lemoine Disaster Recovery, LLC: Awarded a contract up to $83.8 million for emergency detention facilities.
- Palantir Technologies: Awarded a $30 million no-bid contract in April 2025 to develop "ImmigrationOS," a system designed to streamline tracking and deportation logistics.
- Clearview AI & ShadowDragon: Listed as part of a push for 24/7 social media surveillance, according to reports in late 2025.
- Caci International: Provides tactical communications and maintenance under an award potentially worth $130.6 million.
- Dell: Awarded $18.8 million in April 2025 for Microsoft software licenses.
3. Recruitment and Staffing
- People Who Think, LLC: A $25 million contract for an ICE recruitment campaign.
- Capgemini Government Solutions: Poised for a payout potentially over $365 million for "bounty hunting" and intel services.
- Bluehawk LLC: Set to receive over $200 million for intelligence collection and analysis.
- Omni Air (subsidiary of GEO Group): Leads in providing air transportation for removals.
- Hendrick Motorsports Technical Solutions: Awarded a no-bid contract to supply 25 Chevrolet Tahoe vehicles to ICE.
- Kpb Services LLC: Issued a $29.9 million no-bid contract for "due diligence" on new mega-centers.
Several of the major ICE contractors have significant financial, political, or professional ties to Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
Private Detention Giants
The two largest private prison operators, GEO Group and CoreCivic, are among the most prominent corporate backers of the Trump administration's immigration agenda.
- GEO Group: This company and its subsidiaries were the first to "max out" campaign contributions to Trump's 2024 campaign. For the 2024 cycle, GEO Group-affiliated donors contributed over $3.7 million to candidates and committees, with 93.9% of that total going to Republicans. Additionally, they donated $500,000 to Trump’s 2025 inaugural committee—double what they gave in 2017.
- CoreCivic: The company's CEO, Damon Hininger, personally contributed $300,000 to a joint fundraising committee for the Trump campaign and the RNC during the 2024 election cycle. Like GEO Group, CoreCivic also contributed $500,000 to Trump’s 2025 inaugural fund.
- Palantir Technologies: Co-founder and major stakeholder Peter Thiel was a critical early supporter of Donald Trump in 2016 and remains a powerful figure in Republican circles. While Thiel sat out direct donations to the 2024 presidential race, he is a primary mentor to Vice President JD Vance, who once worked for Thiel's venture capital firm. Palantir has been described as a "Trump trade" due to its software's role in the administration’s mass deportation and surveillance plans.
- Microsoft: During the 2024 election cycle, Microsoft reportedly contributed $750,000 to the Trump Inaugural Committee.
- CSI Aviation: The top contractor for ICE deportation flights has deep political ties to the administration, including hosting a Trump campaign rally in late 2024. It was recently awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $128 million for immigrant removal flights.
TLDR: ICE contractors have significant financial, political, or professional ties to Donald Trump
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I was once offered a job with GEO, holy fuck do those guys know how to throw money around.
Couldn't take it because of contract issues, so ended up sub contracting to them for which they paid $750 per hour.
I sorta got ripped off by the company i did it through as I only saw $150 per hour, but still vastly better than the $35 an hour i was used to.
Just insane numbers.
Who Wants 7,000 Gang Members as Their “Neighbors”?
The only people who think murderers and drug dealers are "our neighbors" are the people who don't have to live next door to them.
Who Wants 7,000 Gang Members as Their "Neighbors"? | Frontpage Mag
The only people who think murderers and drug dealers are "our neighbors" are the people who don't have to live next door to them.
www.frontpagemag.com
The Left branded its opposition to deporting illegal alien criminals as support for “our neighbors”. Everywhere liberals have deployed the familiar fuzzy language of “community” standing together” for our “neighbors”.
Billie Eilish, a talentless belated Hot Topic model and nepo baby who’s whiter than pudding showed up to be awarded the “2026 MLK Jr. Beloved Community Environmental Justice Award” usually handed out by the King Center to people that MLK wouldn’t have had deliver his coffee.
“We’re seeing our neighbors being kidnapped, peaceful protesters being assaulted and murdered, our civil rights being stripped,” the ‘singer’ rambled.
Who are those “neighbors”? 7,000 gang members.
Now these nice folks aren’t Billie Eilish’s neighbors. She has a $5 million beach house in Malibu. If gang members show up within 10,000 feet, they’ll be taken out by snipers, drones and a shrieking mob of paparazzi. And most of the politicians and media types blowing whistles and screaming about “our neighbors, the TdA gang members” aren’t living anywhere near them either.
That’s why they can cheerfully call them their neighbors. The only people who think murderers and drug dealers are “our neighbors” are the people who don’t have to live next door to them.
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Sounds good, I voted for him to deal with illegals and I'm glad he has a professional relationship with talented people.
Also, do you expect people that get rid of invaders to vote democrat? Why?
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Legally, but they also can't be here legally, so legality doesn't mean a lot, does it?
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I thought nurses danced when they're sad
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This effort to stop the deportation of illegal aliens is highly organized and paid for by some powerful forces.
As soon as they get Minneapolis chilled out, Democrat politicians are saying some incredibly inflammatory things, and calls for national strikes by our children in our schools.
Who's doing it? Commies. It's funded and organized by Commies. They know that if the USA Illegal Alien is cleaned up, their agenda will hit a brick wall. This is not about anything except power and control, and when the Left sees it slipping away, they freak out. The Commies thought that with Biden, Harris, Mayorkas flooding the USA with millions of illegals, they would be able to seize power in a few election cycles. They are panicking, and this violence is what we get.
As soon as they get Minneapolis chilled out, Democrat politicians are saying some incredibly inflammatory things, and calls for national strikes by our children in our schools.
Who's doing it? Commies. It's funded and organized by Commies. They know that if the USA Illegal Alien is cleaned up, their agenda will hit a brick wall. This is not about anything except power and control, and when the Left sees it slipping away, they freak out. The Commies thought that with Biden, Harris, Mayorkas flooding the USA with millions of illegals, they would be able to seize power in a few election cycles. They are panicking, and this violence is what we get.
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Yeah, the issue here is "rhetoric" and not the unshackled gangs of goons with federal immunity waving guns at everybody they see.
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Isn't that the Arizona guy with rabies who got paid to be scary to children ?
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This is fucking crazy. Apparently Bondi is now in MN doxxing people arrested for impeding ICE.
These people are innocent until proven guilty. Bondi has released less than 1% of Epstein files.
WTF is happening to America?
These people are innocent until proven guilty. Bondi has released less than 1% of Epstein files.
WTF is happening to America?
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You are a cartoon character at this point.
