"Of the 3,800 children and infants taken into immigration custody between January and October of 2025, a majority 2,600 were detained by ICE officers. That means that the children, as young as one or two years old, were not arrested at the border or legal ports of entry, where asylum seekers frequently present themselves to border officers, but from inside the country. That means that those children were not new arrivals seeking help; they were kids going about their daily lives in the US,"
"The truth of the mass deportation agenda pursued by the Trump administration is that family separation is now a matter of course, both in the immigration detention facilities themselves and as a byproduct of the roundups of ordinary people, many with legal status and most with no criminal record, that follows ICE's arrival in an unlucky city. Families with mixed immigration status are torn apart as fathers, mothers, brothers, and aunts are swept into a vast network of detention centers,"
Between January and October 2025, 3,800 children and infants entered immigration custody, with 2,600 detained by ICE officers inside the United States rather than at the border. Children as young as one or two years old were taken from homes, driveways, schools, and cars, including legally present minors. Cases include a five-year-old taken from his driveway, a 17-year-old removed from a car, a 10-year-old taken with a mother, and siblings delivered to detention after a parent’s arrest. Families with mixed immigration status were frequently separated, moved between detention centers, and held in crowded, unsanitary conditions for weeks or months.
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