Brian Lerer on WNYC. So we were just talking about immigration numbers. And now we're going to

humanize this story and hear about some particular cases here in New York City,

one mostly.

On Sunday yesterday,

hundreds of New Yorkers gathered at a playground in Queens

to protest the forced separation of a migrant father

and his six-year-old son.

The boy, the boy, Yuanjin-Zang or Jensun Zhang, people pronounce it differently,

and his father, Thay Zhang, were detained at a routine check-in on the day before Thanksgiving,

November 26th,

at ICE's New York City offices at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan.

The father was transferred to an adult detention center up in Orange County,

but the boy was taken into custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

The family's lawyer told the TV Network MS Now yesterday

that they do not know the location of the child.

Now, the boy started first grade at PS-166 in Queens and Astoria this school year, but has not been in

class, as you can imagine, since his detention almost two weeks ago now. And according to data

from the deportation data project at UC Berkeley, the same organization we built the last segment around, ICE has arrested at least 140 children in the New York City area from January through mid-October this year.

Gwen Hogan is a senior reporter for the news organization, the city, where she first broke the story of this family

separation, and she joins us now with updates, and we may talk about another case or two as

well, time permitting. Gwen, some of you may know, was a WNYC reporter for a while. Now she's

with the news organization, the city. So Gwen, great work again,

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