Watchdog: US Forced Some Deported Parents to Leave Kids Behind

A migrant camp situated 10 miles from the U.S. border, fills up with Central American migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 2, 2018. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

Former President Donald Trump’s administration forced some illegal immigrants to leave the United States without their children, according to a new watchdog report.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), removed at least 348 parents after June 2017 “without documenting that those parents wanted to leave their children in the United States,” the DHS Office of Inspector General said in the new report.