Audit finds ICE ignored parents' wishes in separating children

A new audit Monday shows parents were deported during former President Trump’s zero-tolerance border policy without having the chance to bring their children with them, even though they wanted to.

The probe by Homeland Security’s inspector general is the latest black eye on the zero-tolerance policy, which saw thousands of parents who showed up at the border from mid-2017 to mid-2018 separated. The separations occurred because the parents were being prosecuted, but the government had no competent way of reuniting the families afterward.

Homeland Security officials had insisted deported parents...