Citizen teens left behind when ICE deported their parents

Two Fort Worth teenagers say their lives were upended after ICE arrested and deported their parents. Nearly a year, 19-year-old Dulce Zepeda has been raising her 13-year-old sister, Maria, after their mother and father were taken into custody and removed from the U.S. Dulce helped cover bills by working at a local McDonald’s and selling her mother’s jewelry. In August 2025, the family’s sudden break began when Burleson police arrested their mother, Daysi Munoz, for suspected shoplifting at a Walmart. Munoz says ICE denied her request to take the girls to Honduras unless she spent months detained.