This is I'm sure a true story with names changed to protect the children. The crimes committed by ICE are far worse than this article states which are bad enough for major rebuke. This mother was able to call a friend to take care of her children. Some mothers didn't get that chance.
Undocumented immigrants were arrested at the factory. ICE took no responsibility for the children of those they arrested. Some children came home to a locked house with no explanation. Some of these children were teens. Some were older children. And, some were young children as young as five years old that rode the bus to their house and no one there responsible for them.
Fortunately, the people in the town stepped up to the plate and found shelter, food and needed clothes for the now abandoned children. I don't agree with the raid. However, if it was to be done, Social Sevices should have been notified and all the affected children have a place to go and transportation to get there.
ICE officials broke many laws in the way they carried out this raid. There is a responsibility to take care of children and do a good job doing it. It doesn't matter where the child was born. If the child is in the US, we have the responsibility for that child until the 18th birthday. This is true for all 50 states and Washington, DC.
America should be up in arms on how ICE used totalitarian methods to take in undocumented immigrants. The treatment of the children breaks every standard that the West (North America and Europe) have set for minimum care for children not yet 18.
This isn't the same America that saved the world from tyrany during WWII. FDR, HST, IKE, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, and even Reagan would be ashamed of what America under Trump has become.