U.S. Accused of 'Kidnapping' Toddler Placed in Foster Care as Mom Was Deported to Venezuela, Dad Sent to El Salvador

A family of three were separated after surrendering to U.S. immigration authorities, with the couple's 2-year-old child being left behind in the United States while her parents were deported to separate countries.

Yorely Bernal Inciarte was deported back to her home country of Venezuela last week after being held at a detention center in Texas for several months. However, she realized that her daughter would not be deported with her only when she boarded her flight to Venezuela and did not see her child on the plane.

"I started yelling at the officers asking where my baby was," Inciarte told ABC News. "[Immigration and Customs Enforcement] officers ignored me."

Inciarte entered the U.S. with her daughter alongside her partner, Maiker Espinoza Escalona, last year before the family surrendered themselves to authorities and were separated. Their daughter was placed in government custody while Inciarte and Escalona were placed in separate detention centers.

While Inciarte was returned to Venezuela, her partner was sent to the notorious high security CECOT prison in El Salvador on March 30 under Title 8.

"When I saw him in a video in El Salvador, I was in shock," Inciarte said. "I couldn't stop crying and yelling."

Their attorneys reported that the couple has requested a deportation order for their child, who is not a US citizen, so that they may be reunited with her.

Last weekend, the Department of Homeland Security alleged that Inciarte and Escalona are members of a Venezuelan gang and labeled them as "Tren de Aragua parents." Their being deported without their child has enraged Venezuelan government officials.

"The U.S. government is robbing Venezuelan children," Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said, accusing the U.S. of "kidnapping" the toddler.

"The child's father, Maiker Espinoza-Escalona is a lieutenant of Tren De Aragua who oversees homicides, drug sales, kidnappings, extortion, sex trafficking and operates a torture house," DHS said in a statement over the weekend. "The child's mother, Yorely Escarleth Bernal Inciarte, oversees recruitment of young women for drug smuggling and prostitution."

"The child remains in the care and custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement and is currently placed with a foster family," DHS added.

Inciarte and her family have vehemently denied these allegations.

"If it's true, release the evidence," Inciarte told ABC News. "Release the proof that we are Tren de Aragua. They took a child away from their mother and they're telling lies about us."