Marine Corps veteran Adrian Clouatre doesn’t know how to tell his children where their mother went after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained her last month.

When his nearly 2-year-old son Noah asks for his mother before bed, Clouatre just tells him, “Mama will be back soon.” When his 3-month-old, breastfeeding daughter Lyn is hungry, he gives her a bottle of baby formula instead. He’s worried how his newborn will bond with her mother absent skin-to-skin contact.

His wife, Paola, is one of tens of thousands of people in custody and facing deportation as the Trump administration pushes for immigration officers to arrest 3,000 people a day.

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      it’s a cult. This is the terrifying power of unquestioningly believing what you’re told

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      I don’t understand it either, I have a friend who’s parents were deported in trumps first term because their visas lapsed and they had been here for 25+ years working and paying taxes and opening businesses. My friend last year said there was no difference in who he voted for they were both terrible choices and I was dumbfounded, one is clearly going to have more direct negative consequences again but they wouldn’t budge.