Febe and Angelo Perez were asleep in their beds when immigration agents came for their mother.

Only 6 and 9 years old, the siblings – both US citizens from Texas – didn’t understand who the men in tactical vests were or what “ICE” was. And they didn’t hear an officer tell their mom, Kenia, that they would be picked up by Child Protective Services and placed into foster care if she couldn’t find someone to take care of them.

All they knew was that their mother, their only parent since their father died five years ago, was being taken from them.

Across the country, US-born children like Febe and Angelo have become collateral damage in the Trump administration’s unprecedented crackdown on undocumented immigrants.

CNN identified more than 100 US citizen children, from newborns to teenage

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