{
  "id": 12141912,
  "title": "“You Kidnapped My Son”",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/you-kidnapped-my-son",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-05T11:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mother Jones",
    "slug": "mother-jones",
    "url": "https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/ice-orr-office-refugee-resettlement-donald-trump-stephen-miller-family-separations-foster-care-deportations/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "For several days, Luis, a construction worker from Venezuela, found himself trapped inside a Texas immigration detention center. He desperately called anyone he could think of, pleading for help to locate his 11-year-old son, Andrés. The last time Luis had seen his son was at an ICE holding facility near Camp East Montana, an immigrant detention center on a military base in El Paso. They had come to the United States together in 2023. After being arrested, both Luis and Andrés were taken into custody and held in a cell that felt like a dungeon. One night, ICE officers took Andrés away, claiming he was just a kid who needed his dad. Luis was left to wait for updates, but neither he nor Andrés' family could get any information on his whereabouts. It wasn't until about five days later that Luis learned Andrés had been transferred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services that cares for unaccompanied migrant children. ORR would place Andrés in temporary foster care with another Texas family. Luis was furious, calling it an act of kidnapping. The administration aims to prevent people from sending their children to the US, according to a former ORR official. The government lied to Luis, he felt, as Andrés was never truly unaccompanied. Similar situations occurred during the Trump administration, where families were separated, but now, the technique is being used more quietly, away from the border.",
  "summary": "For several days this spring, trapped inside a Texas immigration detention center, Luis made frantic phone calls, one after the other, to everyone he could think of. Could anyone help him find his 11-year-old son? He’d last seen Andrés, a sensitive boy who likes to draw and paint, at an ICE holding facility near Camp […]",
  "key_points": [
    "Luis, Venezuelan construction worker, trapped in Texas detention center.",
    "11-year-old son Andrés kidnapped by ICE, transferred to ORR.",
    "Luis furious, calls it kidnapping, accuses government of lying."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}