by Mica Rosenberg / “This story was originally published by ProPublica.” / May 18, 2026, 5:45 pm American children, 100,000 more, have likely been separated from their parents by immigration detention sweeps than was originally understood More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s…