They came home from school to find their father missing. It had started off like any other day. As usual, Ronald Soza dropped off his kids Cesia, 17, and Ronald Jr., 14, at school in Pompano Beach, Florida. Ronald Soza returned home to find U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents waiting for him at his doorstep. Soza, an undocumented immigrant from Nicaragua, was taken to a detention center. When the teens -- both legal residents -- came home to an empty house at the end of the day, they realized something was very wrong. Then the phone rang. It was their father, trying to reassure them that everything would be OK.
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Teen siblings who are legal U.S. residents were left alone after feds deported immigrant parents
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U.S. children whose parents are deported often struggle with school, finances, friendships
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An estimated 5,100 U.S. kids in 22 states have had parents detained or deported, say experts
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