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ICE Took Mom and Dad. Now the Kids Are on Their Own. 46%
By Reveal74%
7/25/2026, 12:01:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Appeal to Emotion, and Quote-first Misdirection, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 38.5% saturation with 99 hits. Analysis detected 508 faulty-reasoning hits from 257 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 48.2% and a BS Rank of 46% (11,820 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 54.00% of the article peer group.
Last fall, life for the Perez children was turned upside down.
Their father, Romeo Sr., was picked up on his way to work and sent to immigration detention.
A few months later, their mother, Olga, was detained, too.
Her daughter was driving when they were pulled over.
Romeo Sr. and Olga were both undocumented and had lived in the United States for decades; their children are US citizens.
“I just remember after he had started banging on the window, like, telling me that I have to put the windows down so my mom and my uncle can give their IDs,” says 21-year old Eliza Perez.
She told the officer, “You took my dad, and now you’re taking my mom.”
With their parents gone, Eliza, Jessica, Romeo Jr., and Cynthia had to fend for themselves in Lake Worth, Florida.
Eliza, a college student, took charge of the household and the family’s landscaping business.
The Perezes are not alone.
An estimated 205,000 kids have had a parent detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the last year and a half.
It’s happening all over the country and, in some cases, to the same families who were separated at the border during the first Trump administration.
This week on Reveal , filmmakers Max Maldonado and José Jesús Zaragoza and Mother Jones reporters Samantha Michaels and Isabela Dias look into the lives of two families fighting to stay together as the Trump administration’s deportation agenda rips them apart.
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