Shumita Basu

While Liam is now home, this case put a spotlight on the rising number of child detentions by ICE in the U.S.

right now, something Powell has been reporting on.

Powell says it's hard to pin down exactly how many kids have been affected by the administration's deportation policies because children end up in detention in different ways.

Liam, for instance, was detained with a parent, a scenario which makes up just one part of the statistics.

An analysis by the Marshall Project, a nonprofit news group, says that nearly 4,000 children under the age of 18, including 20 infants, were apprehended and detained by ICE in 2025.

ProPublica also found that 600 immigrant children were sent to federal detention shelters at the border in 2025, a record for the U.S.

and a higher tally than the previous four years combined.

The Trump administration did not respond to the Post's questions about how many children are in federal detention and said they do not separate families.

A spokesperson for DHS added that parents are given the option to be removed with their kids or leave them with a designated guardian.

Immigration lawyers claim that in some of these cases, children have been held longer than the 20-day legal threshold.

Powell says for years, kids were usually detained at the southern border.

But because border crossings have significantly slowed under the Trump administration, cases like Liam's, where kids in the interior of the country are being detained, are increasing.

The oil industry in Venezuela could be about to open up to Western markets.

The Trump administration is poised to issue a general license as soon as this week, according to Bloomberg.

But even if it does, the White House will need to convince oil executives that the region is on stable footing.

Last month, Exxon's CEO described it as uninvestable.

It casts Venezuela's interim leader in an unusual negotiating position and as an unlikely but important figure for Trump's legacy.

Formerly Nicolas Maduro's vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, has kept the bulk of military and civilian officials in place and has in recent weeks told crowds that she'd had enough of the U.S.,

But at the same time, Rodriguez recently hosted the U.S.

's top diplomat to discuss cooperation with the United States and the roadmap that the Trump administration has for Venezuela's future.