Respondent Harper stated that the father could try to pick [the child] up, but that he would also be taken into custody. Respondent Harper later sent an email further evincing her refusal to release [the child] to her custodian […] and stating that she would instead require [the child]’s father to turn himself in for detention and deportation.
I would have some (extremely) limited sympathy if the father was a US citizen and therefore his daughter’s citizenship was genuine. Obviously, however, the article is leaving out the part where the daughter shouldn’t even be a citizen in the first place.
From a related court filing:
I would have some (extremely) limited sympathy if the father was a US citizen and therefore his daughter’s citizenship was genuine. Obviously, however, the article is leaving out the part where the daughter shouldn’t even be a citizen in the first place.