US EditionMore Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Children Have Had Parents Detained by ICE, Report Finds
An ICE data analysis shows arrests of immigrant parents with U.S. citizen children doubled under Trump, with nearly 60% of cases ending in deportation compared to 30% under Biden.
- In the first seven months of President Donald Trump's second term, authorities detained parents of more than 11,000 U.S. citizen children, according to internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement records. This translates to roughly 50 children losing a parent to detention daily.
- Border Czar Tom Homan introduced enforcement goals prioritizing aggressive arrests, while the Trump administration replaced the 'Parental Interests Directive' with the 'Detained Parents Directive,' stripping the word 'humane' from agent instructions.
- DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis stated that 'ICE does not separate families,' asserting immigrant parents can choose to leave with their children or designate caregivers. Bis also claimed the agency cannot verify the analyzed data's accuracy.
- Arrests of immigrant parents with U.S.-born children are happening twice as often under President Trump than under former President Joe Biden. Nearly 60% of such cases now result in deportation, compared to about 30% during Biden's tenure.
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Trump has detained parents of more than 11,000 US citizen kids
The baby needed somewhere to go. So in the frantic hours before officers took her parents away to immigration detention, her mom turned to their pastor and his wife. As squad cars waited outside the family’s Lakeland, Florida, trailer home, she gave them a crash course in how to care for the 4-month-old. Briany, with her plump cheeks and full head of dark hair, wasn’t normally this fussy. But it was late that January night — around midnight — an…
Trump has detained the parents of more than 11,000 U.S. citizen kids, including in Florida
by Jeff Ernsthausen, Mario Ariza, McKenzie Funk, Mica Rosenberg and Gabriel Sandoval – This story was originally published by ProPublica. The baby needed somewhere to go. So in the frantic hours before officers took her parents away to immigration detention, her mom turned to their pastor and his wife. As squad cars waited outside the family’s Lakeland, Florida, trailer home, she gave them a crash course in how to care for the 4-month-old. Brian…
ICE Detentions Surge, Leaving 11,000 U.S. Citizen Children Without Parents
Federal immigration authorities detained the parents of over 11,000 U.S. citizen children in the first seven months of President Donald Trump's second term, leaving families scrambling and raising urgent questions about enforcement practices and their impact on American-born children. The post ICE Detentions Surge, Leaving 11,000 U.S. Citizen Children Without Parents appeared first on The Washington Informer.
ICE Crackdown Leaves Citizen Kids in the Balance
ProPublica is out with a new investigative piece on deportations, but this one focuses not on the deportees but on their children. An analysis of internal ICE records obtained via a University of Washington lawsuit finds that in the first seven months of President Trump's second term, authorities detained the...
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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