As students file back into classrooms, some immigrant families are faced with an unexpected back-to-school reality: Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detaining children and parents at the door.

The Trump administration says its immigration crackdown only targets illegal violent criminal offenders, but advocates say thousands of immigrant children have been caught in the crossfire and have been detained by masked ICE agents only to be taken to remote facilities far from home.

Luma Mufleh is the founder and CEO of Fugees Family, a Bowling Green-based nonprofit serving refugee communities in Kentucky, Ohio and Georgia. She said the official number of children unlawfully detained by ICE is a blurry figure, largely because when those children are taken, the proper documentation isn't

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