U.S.-born kids were in foster care as parents fought deportation - A Honduran mother feared for her U.S.-born children after Florida authorities seized them when she and her husband were arrested due to a deportation order

“The Honduran couple from Texas ended up in immigration detention awaiting deportation — their American children handed over to Florida foster care. And Banegas knew nothing of their whereabouts.

The episode is the first documented South Florida case of children seized by the state upon immigration officers arrest of the parents. There are no official state or national figures, though immigration advocates say there have been other cases in South Florida.

Separating immigrant parents from their U.S.-born children has become controversial as immigration authorities step up raids of undocumented immigrants who have been ordered deported.”

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