‘A sad, cruel moment’: Dozens of Florida children leave US amid parent deportations

The small figures huddled together at Miami International Airport carried backpacks, stuffed animals and three suitcases. One wore a silver cross necklace.

Families of the seven travelers — ages 3 to 15 — have been torn apart this year by the Trump Administration’s deportation campaign. The children left the United States on Thursday for a new life in the mountains of Guatemala. For some, Florida is the only home they’ve ever known.

Three of the children are U.S. citizens; the other four grew up in Lake Worth Beach, long home to a large Guatemalan community.

They are among 58 children that the Guatemala-Maya Center, a local social service agency, has helped reunite with their parents in Guatemala this year. Staff said that they have organized power-of-attorney documents for 200 other children, whose parents are worried about what will happen if they are detained.

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