Comment by saguntum

I know you are asking rhetorically, but this occurs routinely under the current US immigration regime.

There have been over 100,000 children separated from their parents in the United States due to immigration enforcement since 2025.

The feature story in the linked article is about a now 2 year old whose parents were not there for them beginning to walk or talk.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/us/brookings-institution-...