This was going to be a somber editorial expressing fury and exasperation that we have not taken to the streets to demand that our elected representatives and judiciary hold the Trump administration accountable for its deportation to Honduras of a two-year-old U.S. citizen.
Some quick background: In late April, the toddler, identified in court documents only as “V.M.L.,” accompanied her mother, an undocumented native of Honduras, to a scheduled meeting at the New Orleans office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. What was meant to be a dutiful check-in—V.M.L.’s mother was a so-called non-detained alien, freed from ICE custody in 2021—turned into a de facto abduction.
