María Luisa Paul

His image is really powerful, and I think it has captivated the country in a way the few other images have.

You really see this little boy and he is kind of like the picture of childhood, right?

He has this hat with bunny ears and he has a Spider-Man backpack and he's just watching head on as an officer is grabbing the backpack strap.

The average number of people in family detention, according to the Department of Homeland Security's own data, has more than tripled since the beginning of the fiscal year in October to January.

I mean, it began with 425 people on average, and now we're a little over 1,300.

And that's in the span of months.

Then you have other children, for example, who are encountered by themselves because of a traffic stop.

And then what has increasingly happened is that ICE agents will classify them as an unaccompanied minor, even though they might have a guardian or a parent here have been living with them for years.

And then you have the other effect of all of this, which is the family separations.

I mean, the number of children who have had their parents detained and deported

is significant and it's growing.

What the numbers tell us is that the youngest and most vulnerable lives in this country are increasingly in the middle of these policies and they're being affected in different ways.

But beyond that, I think this raises a lot of concerns about due process as well.