Family separation remains a crisis—just ask “Edwin,” a Honduran asylum-seeker who, in blatant violation of a court reunification order, continues to remain separated from his five-year-old son, “Jaime.” Edwin is also one of the many parents saying they were pushed or misled into agreeing to their own deportation.

The father and son were separated in early June. Edwin told The Nation that immigration officials didn’t even give him a chance to say goodbye. He was then given papers to sign, but they were all in English, “which he didn’t speak or understand.” Officials wouldn’t tell him where his son was, after being moved elsewhere under Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) custody. Without still knowing where his son was, he was then shipped out of the country.

“’They deported me without explaining anything,’ Edwin said. An ICE agent told him he could talk to Honduran officials for more information. A man gave him a number to call to ask about his son, and then he was shackled and boarded onto a plane bound for Honduras in June,” The Nation continued. Edwin is back in Honduras, and his son is still in ORR custody, despite also signing papers that should have released Jaime to Edwin’s sister in New York.

Now Jaime, already traumatized by the separation, believes his dad intentionally left him behind. “Why did you abandon me, papa?” Jamie, still under ORR custody in Chicago, told him over the phone one time. “Besides the social worker and an attorney, Edwin has had no contact with anyone from the US government.” Adding to this pain is that Jaime, who was just four when he was first detained with his dad, turned five under custody.

Hundreds of other children also continue to remain separated from their loved ones and under U.S. custody, with the administration slow-walking reunifications. Every day away from parents is another day of trauma for these kids, and the administration has shown it just doesn’t care. Trump administration officials, not the kids, are the ones that need to be locked up.