Girl, 5, deported to Honduras despite being US citizen, becomes latest victim of Trump crackdown

The Guardian - World NewsCenter-LeftEN 4 min read 100% complete by Claudia Mendoza in Puerto Cortés, Honduras, and Tiago Rogero in Rio de JaneiroJanuary 27, 2026 at 03:34 PM

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Five-year-old Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos, a US citizen, was deported to Honduras from Austin, Texas, on January 11 along with her mother, Karen Guadalupe Gutiérrez Castellanos. ICE agents acted on a 2019 deportation order against the mother, issued before Génesis was born. The mother and daughter were detained for almost a week without access to a lawyer or a hearing before being deported. The mother had been living in the US since 2018 after leaving Honduras to escape poverty and had applied for a U visa due to domestic abuse, which was still pending. Advocates point to procedural violations in the case, drawing parallels to other recent detentions of children, and see it as a sign of increased deportations under the Trump administration.

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Puerto Cortés 30% Liam Conejo Ramos 40% Minneapolis 40% Austin 50% Donald Trump 60% Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ×270% United States ×280% Honduras ×380% Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos ×290% Karen Guadalupe Gutiérrez Castellanos ×390%

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deportation 100% us citizen 90% immigration and customs enforcement (ice) 80% domestic violence 70% administrative deportation order 60% trump administration 60% mass deportations 50% u visa 50% procedural violations 40%

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