A Honduran mother who begged immigration authorities to keep her with her two-year-old son was forcibly deported to Honduras in January 2026; weeks later, the boy was beaten to death in a Florida home, and the agency that separated them then blamed her publicly for his killing.
Orlín Josué Hernandez Reyes died in Escambia County, Florida, in March, while in the care of his uncle, after his mother, Wendy Hernandez Reyes, was deported in January. He was a United States citizen. His mother says she was denied every plea to take him with her. In a statement issued a week after Orlín's death, Acting ICE Director Todd M. Lyons did not express condolences. He accused her of abandonment.
