What happens to children when their parents are detained or deported?

What happens to children when their parents are detained or deported?

The Daily Beast has a good story today on Encarnación Romero, a Guatemalan woman who was jailed on immigration charges for two years and ended up losing parental rights to her infant son. Romero faked documents to secure a job at a Missouri poultry plant, which was raided in March 2009 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She was charged with federal identity theft — a charge the Supreme Court ruled in May 2009 cannot be applied to immigration cases — and put in jail for two years. While she was there, her parental rights were terminated by a court and an American family adopted her baby — all without her consent.