Five-year-old Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos misses her cousins, classmates and kindergarten teachers in Austin, Texas. Despite being a US citizen, she was deported on 11 January alongside her mother, Karen Guadalupe Gutiérrez Castellanos, to Honduras, a country Génesis had never known. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were acting on an administrative deportation order against Gutiérrez, 26, issued in 2019, before Génesis was born. She received a deportation order a year later but remained in the country and in 2020 Génesis was born. View image in fullscreen Gutiérrez and her daughter have been staying with Gutiérrez’s mother in Honduras.

Source: The Guardian January 27, 2026 14:26 UTC