Trump admin deports 2-year-old girl who is American citizen
Trump admin deports 2-year-old girl who is American citizen
Trump Admin Deports 2-Year-Old Girl Who Is American Citizen
A 2-year-old American girl has been left stateless after the Trump administration deported her alongside her family.
Emanuelly Borges Santos, known to her family as Manu, was born in a Florida hospital in 2022. She has an American passport and a Social Security card. Nevertheless, Manu and her parents, who are both undocumented, were packed onto a plane with 94 others and shipped to Brazil in February, according to a report from The Washington Post.
When they arrived, Brazilian officials were shocked to find the American toddler among the deportees.
“We’d never seen another case like this,” federal police officer Alexsandra Oliveira Medeiros Reis told the Post.
She is not stateless. She is an American citizen. Wrongly deported, yes. Stateless, no.
Hey now. How can media outlets manufacture consent if they don’t misrepresent her status?
Stateless in the sense of being exiled from her country
That's not what "stateless" means.
She can come back across the border with her US Passport.
Getting that passport would be impossible tho. Ipso facto, she's stateless.
I mean she’s kind of de-facto stateless at least until she is old enough or finds some other caregiver in the US. If she’s only a citizen of the US but can’t survive there then is there any difference between that and being stateless?
https://www.unhcr.org/ibelong/about-statelessness/
Yes, the experience she has right now, being a US citizen in Brazil, means that her current experience is surely quite similar to what it would be if she were stateless. And the path forward is definitely full of obstacles.
But she is not stateless. She is a US citizen with a US passport. Her situation is caused by her government illegally sending her to another country.