Spins ICE Deportation Tale, Falsely Claims 4-Year-Old Cancer Patient Booted – Twitchy

In the least shocking news of the day, Pramila Jayapal is lying again. It’s a day that ends in -y and she is a Democrat, so it makes sense. 

NEW: No, ICE didn’t deport a 4-year-old with cancer, as Rep. Pramila Jayapal claimed https://t.co/eyzEZZnuUa

— Jason Rantz on Seattle Red (@jasonrantz) August 17, 2025

Squad grandmother Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Seattle) blasted out a viral claim on X: “Donald Trump’s ICE just deported a 4-year-old child with cancer. This is not law enforcement. It’s state-sanctioned cruelty.” But that didn’t happen.

U.S. citizens are not subject to deportation; ICE deported the mothers, and the children left with them.

NBC News’ reporting, which Jayapal cites, described three U.S.-citizen children, including a 4-year-old with stage-4 kidney cancer, being sent to Honduras with their deported mothers after ICE arrests in Louisiana. But even in coverage sympathetic to the families, federal officials were explicit: the children themselves were not “deported.” They accompanied their mothers, who had final orders of removal. That’s a crucial distinction Jayapal ignored to score political points. 

“Rather than separate their families, ICE asked the mothers if they wanted to be removed with their children or if they wanted ICE to place the children with someone safe the parent designates,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said to NBC News. “The parents in this instance made the determination to take their children with them back to Honduras.”

McLaughlin also noted that in the case of “an underlying health issue, ICE makes sure that treatment is available in the country to which the illegal alien is being removed. The implication that ICE would deny a child the medical care they need is flatly FALSE, and it is an insult to the men and women of federal law enforcement.”

Should ICE have abandoned the kids? Jayapal previously decried family separations. Her actual position is that she doesn’t ever want immigration enforcement because she’s an open borders Democrat.

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another day, another lie spewing from “honorable” rep…. https://t.co/w1wv5B2s6Z

— Donna Berg (@tuckerfizz2) August 17, 2025

Exactly!

Communists are liars. She is a communist. https://t.co/E0ArlKAwh7

— Robert Jamison (@rjamison6) August 17, 2025

She absolutely is.

All they do is lie. Truly the Pravda wing of American politics https://t.co/o1Yn4ZmneZ

— Wags Pax (@WagsPax) August 17, 2025

Why do you lie @RepJayapal https://t.co/Ra44QVM0OI

— GemStateSurfer (@GemSurfer) August 17, 2025

It comes so naturally to her. 

The lies told by democrats since Trump took office is disgusting . Nothing is respected , anybody , anything, any lies are said day after day after day… The democrats have loss all credibility. https://t.co/ztsPfiOia7

— xxxx (@mondo1947) August 17, 2025

They care more about undermining him than uniting the country.

Can we use some of the money used to deport illegal criminals to get her some electrolysis?

— Ken Harford, MBI (@harford_ken) August 17, 2025

Also, true. 

Notice she doesn’t have a big crowd in attendance. I think there’s a lot of smoke and mirrors. People have had enough of these Marxists.

— Liz Lambert 🙏🏼❤️🇺🇸 (@LizLamb44385395) August 17, 2025

Fingers crossed.

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