First grader after ICE detained her father: Nobody came back - The Weeknight - MS NOW

[Rhiannon12866]

The Weeknight hosts react to an MS NOW exclusive featuring a first grader who describes being left alone after her father was detained by ICE while picking up food and the moment she realized he was not coming back. - Aired on 02/23/2026.

[cliffside]

1. She was home by herself for two hours before she went outside to look for help ...

full interview on the Weekend Primetime, about 8 minutes.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Thank you! Certainly traumatizing for a child that young

I still remember when I was about the same age when I came home from school to an empty house and I freaked out, turns out my mother and pre-school brother were just at a neighbor's...

[cliffside]

3. Definitely traumatizing ...

glad it worked out for you ... but you still remember!

[Rhiannon12866]

4. I sure do, I immediately panicked and I certainly had less reason than this little girl

And my mother, at the same age, was a latch key kid since her parents were both immigrants (from Poland) and worked full time, so my mother was also responsible for her little sister...

[Bayard]

5. There's going to be an entire generation of traumatized kids

trump should pay for their treatment out of his own pocket.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. I certainly agree, and didn't we hold mass protests during his last term against "kids in cages??"

I definitely remember the record number who came out in my small city, ran into seven people I knew. And then there are the kids who are traumatized by the mass shootings and the drills in the schools. My cousin's daughter is still traumatized just from the drills...