Some, freshly pressed passports in hand, end up in their parents’ country of origin — even when it’s not their own. A March 24 investigation by ProPublica found that the parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children were arrested and detained in the first seven months of Trump’s second term. Gabrielle Oliveira, Harvard“It’s been harder and harder to get in touch with people who are detained,” Oliveira said. “We’ve heard about 15- and 16-year-olds living by themselves for several weeks because their parents were detained and they had no idea where they were,” she said. Nearly 1,000 children were still waiting to reunite with their parents in 2023, according to government records.

Source: New York Times March 31, 2026 16:34 UTC