Eliza is 21. She dropped out of college to run her father's landscaping business so her siblings could keep the lights on. Romeo Jr. is 15. He learned to deposit checks and manage customers because there was nobody else to do it. Jessica is 18. She had a panic attack and an asthma attack and fainted after her mother was arrested, and there was no one to calm her down. Cynthia is 13. She used to be the funny one — always joking, always talking. Now she is quiet. She sleeps with a cat plushie her dad gave her, sprayed with her mother's perfume.

These are American citizens. Every single one of them.

Their parents — Romeo Sr. and Olga Perez — have lived in Florida for over 25 years. Romeo built a landscaping business from nothing. Olga worked as a Mayan language translator and cleaned homes. They raised four children who go to school, dream of college, and love their family. Romeo was detained on his way to work last September. Olga was arrested before sunrise during Thanksgiving break. Both are now held in facilities far from their children — Romeo in Georgia, Olga in Arizona.

DHS argued in court that these children are managing just fine without their mother. Eliza's response: "No, we can't. I feel like quitting. I don't feel like this is my gig, my dream."

She is 21 years old and she is raising her siblings alone because the federal government decided her parents were a threat. They are not a threat. They are a mother and a father whose children need them home.

We're calling on ICE and the Department of Homeland Security to immediately release Romeo Sr. and Olga Perez and reunite them with their four American citizen children in Lake Worth Beach, Florida.