‘I just want my dad back.’ Kansas families with deported parent have one holiday wish

For the first time, Kevin and 9-year-old brother Antony, both American citizens, are spending the holidays without Dad.

It’s not what they imagined in April, when — shortly after their father’s arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — Mendez-Ramirez’s children gathered with volunteers to write letters pleading for his release from the Morgan County Jail under ICE custody.

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