COLUMN — It was just after the first bell at P.S. 89 in Queens, NYC, when the news spread: Dayra, the six-year-old with the sweet smile and the neat handwriting, wasn’t coming back. ICE had taken her. She and her mother were put on a plane to Ecuador before her classmates even knew what happened. Two of her siblings remain here, orphaned in the way only this government can orphan children — by decree.
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