220,000 Arrests, 75,000 With No Record
How A Chinese Father And His 6 Year Old Got Split In New York, And What A Real Warrant Looks Like
1. The father who kept his appointment
Fei Zheng is a Chinese asylum seeker in Queens. He did everything the government told him to do.
He crossed, was detained, released, and ordered to report to ICE at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan. On November 26, he walked into the building with his 6 year old son, Yuanxin, for a routine check-in.
They went in together.
They did not come out together.
ICE moved Fei to a county jail in Goshen, New York. His son disappeared into the federal maze. For days, his name did not appear in any public system. Advocates and elected officials were literally asking Washington:
Where is the child you took?
Only after public pressure did the Office of Refugee Resettlement quietly admit that Yuanxin is in its custody as an “unaccompanied minor.” They still refuse to say which facility he is in or let the public verify his condition.
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