SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- A lawsuit has been filed in the Middle District of Louisiana accusing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of unlawfully deporting three U.S. citizen children, including a 4-year-old with Stage 4 kidney cancer.

According to the legal action, the children's deportations happened in April alongside their non-citizen parents, "without due process, parental consent, or access to legal counsel."

The 39-page lawsuit, filed Thursday by multiple plaintiffs under pseudonyms for their protection, alleges that ICE agents in Louisiana detained the families during routine immigration check-ins, denied them contact with lawyers and family, and then placed both children and adults on flights to Honduras.

ICE is accused of deporting one of the siblings, a 4-year-old who

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