ICE Data Reveals Jaw-Dropping Amount of U.S. Kids’ Parents Detained by Trump

Chip Somodevilla / Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Donald Trump’s hardline mass deportation operations have led to a shocking number of parents being separated from their U.S. citizen children. In the first seven months of Trump’s second term, the administration detained at least 11,000 parents of children who obtained birthright citizenship, ProPublica reported after analyzing ICE data obtained by the University of Washington’s Center for Human Rights. If that pace has continued into early 2026, the number could have roughly doubled, and amount to an average of more than 50 U.S. citizen children being separated from their parents each day as they are processed into federal immigration detention centers. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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