ICE is deporting parents and leaving their children behind in the United States. A new Atlantic investigation follows a 2-year-old in Mobile, Alabama, whose parents were deported to Venezuela after a police officer handed his mother to ICE. She had a work permit and a pending asylum application. Brookings estimated in May that more than 22,000 U.S.-citizen children have had every parent in their household detained since January 2025. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/11/trump-ice-family-separation/688695/