‘Are Mom And Dad Not Coming Home?’: American Kids Left Stranded When ICE Takes Their Parents

In Honduras and Guatemala—two countries many undocumented immigrants are being deported to—parents are arriving without their US citizen children and saying they weren’t given the option to bring them, researchers from the nonprofit advocacy group Women’s Refugee Commission told CNN after visiting both places.

“Some parents were showing up inconsolable because they did not know where their children were or who was caring for them,” said Zain Lakhani, the group’s director of migrant rights and justice. “This is the new family separation crisis.”