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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’s safer with her parents than being alone in the (now fascist) US, so it’s actually better this way. Anywhere that isn’t a US concentration camp or authoritarians running a camp on the US’s behalf, is a safer place to be.
She’s still a US citizen. In the future, after the US de-nazifies, she can still get a passport from the US embassy and come back.