2-year-old U.S. citizen was deported

[Michael]

Speedy wrote:
[quote=hal]
I read that they came for the woman and she wanted to bring her child who was born in the US.

The mother did not have that right. When anyone travels abroad with a child either both parents must be with them or the parent not traveling must give written permission. If you are taking a child, for example, a niece or nephew, then both parents must provide written permission. This also applies to land travel to Mexico or Canada.
Here's the rule: https://www.usa.gov/travel-documents-children

But, in this case the kid would really need a passport as a US Citizen. The State Dept. does have a form that would allow a parent to get a passport for a child without permission of the other parent. It's Form DS-5525. But, that's really designed for a US citizen parent getting a passport for a US citizen child with the other parent either not responding or being unavailable. That was obviously not the case in this situation.

Somebody needs to go to jail over this.