BREAKING🚨 A mother in ICE custody says she BEGGED to take her two U.S. citizen daughters to Honduras with her. ICE told her the price would be five more MONTHS locked in a detention center. Daysi Munoz and her husband were back-to-school shopping at a Walmart in Burleson, Texas, in August 2025 when Burleson police arrested her on suspicion of shoplifting. The portions of the police report released so far list a mop, toilet paper and crab meat. Munoz says they forgot items at the bottom of the cart and were trying to pay. That arrest handed her to ICE. Her daughters said goodbye to her in the store parking lot. Their mother hugged 19-year-old Dulce Zepeda and told her to take care of her little sister. About 40 days later, both parents were deported to Honduras. Dulce and 13-year-old Maria are U.S. citizens with every right to stay. So Dulce became the parent. Cooking. Driving Maria to middle school. Working at a McDonald's. Selling her mother's jewelry to cover the bills. "You never know whenever is the last hug that you're going to have from your parents," Dulce said. Munoz says she told ICE over and over that she wanted to take her girls with her, and that ICE told her that wasn't possible unless she agreed to spend at least four or five additional months in a detention center. She has high blood pressure and was afraid of what that would do to her. ICE's statement: "ICE does not separate families. Parents are asked if they want to be removed with their children, or ICE will place the children with a safe person the parent designates." Asked directly about Dulce, Maria and their mother's account, the agency did not answer. It called Munoz a "criminal alien" over the suspected shoplifting. The rule that once required ICE to help detained parents arrange care for their kids now only applies when it's "operationally feasible." After nearly a year, the family scraped together a plane ticket and a Honduran visa, and Maria flew to a country she had never seen. "She needs my mom and she already has a whole year with me," Dulce said as her sister boarded.