DHS Official: Deported Parents Decided to Leave 100-Plus Children Behind

[rangerrebew]

DHS Official: Deported Parents Decided to Leave 100-Plus Children Behind

    July 17, 2018
    Neil Munro

    More than 100 deported migrant parents have separated themselves from their children and left them behind in the United States, according to Kevin McAleenan, head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

    “So we’ve seen many [deported] parents — apparently over a hundred already — say that they’d rather have their child stay here,” McAleenan told Politico’s interviewer, Luiza Chwialkowska Savage. “They might have a family member who that child can be placed with in the U.S., but that is the parent’s decision,” he said July 17.

    The growing number of self-imposed separations comes as progressives and judges continue their emotional protests against the federal effort to shelter children while their migrant parents are detained for immigration violations or asylum hearings.
 

    https://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...ildren-behind/

[sneakypete]

I am sure in most cases the thinking behind this is the child can become a US citizen in a few years,and then sponsor them for Green Cards.

[skeeter]

Are these like the DACA "children" who range anywhere from jr high schoolers to 37 year olds with receding hairlines?

[Fishrrman]

From the article:
"More than 100 deported migrant parents have separated themselves from their children and left them behind in the United States, according to Kevin McAleenan, head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection."

Assuming the government had both the parents and the children in custody, why were the children permitted to "remain behind"?
Why weren't they deported with their families, as well?