She had been in a Texas holding center for a few months before she got the news she had been praying for: she was going to be sent back to her home country.

But last week, when she got on her flight to Venezuela to be deported, her worst fear came true, she said: her two-year-old daughter was not on the flight.

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

Inciarte told ABC News that she, her boyfriend Maiker Espinoza Escalona, and their child were split up when they came into the U.S. last year and turned themselves in to the police.

Inciarte and Escalona were sent to different Texas detention camps, and their daughter was given to the government to care for, Inciarte said. She told ABC News that she could talk on the phone and through video calls with her daughter and Escalona.

After being given asylum, the two adults eventually asked to be deported so they could be with their child, who is not a U.S. citizen, one of their lawyers told ABC News.

That would never happen, though. According to Escalona’s family and lawyer, he was sent to Guantanamo Bay and then to the notorious CECOT jail in El Salvador on March 30 under Title 8 rules.

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

Inciarte was sent back to Venezuela without her daughter last week, which has made the Venezuelan government very angry. Over the weekend, the Department of Homeland Security called Inciarte and Escalona “Tren de Aragua parents,” which means they are allegedly part of the Venezuelan gang.

“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 last 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 said.

DHS says that Inciarte, her lawyer, and her family are not guilty of what they say.

Inciarte told ABC News, “If it’s true, show the proof.” “Let the proof out that we are Tren de Aragua.” They lied about us and took a child away from their mother.

Inciarte says that she and Escalona were never let out of U.S. prison custody. ABC News got a document from DHS that shows Inciarte came into the U.S. on May 14 without a legal entry document.

Documents from their family in Venezuela seem to show that the two do not have any crime records in their home country.

When ABC News asked DHS about the evidence it has on Escalona and Inciarte, they sent them the statement that was released over the weekend.

A look through county and federal records by ABC News found no cases linked to Escalona. ABC News found a federal criminal case from 2024 against Inciarte for coming into the U.S. illegally. The papers say that Inciarte admitted guilt and was given a sentence of time served and one work day.

The U.S. was accused of “kidnapping” the child by a top government official over the weekend.

Diosdado Cabello, the interior minister, said on a radio show, “The U.S. government is stealing from Venezuelan children.”

Family members of Inciarte have told ABC News that they think the couple was accused of being Tren de Aragua members because of the tattoos they had.

“My daughter has a tattoo of the years I was born and the years her dad was born,” Inciarte’s mom told ABC News. “On her chest are the flowers and the name of her son. Maiker is a tattoo artist, and he would give her needle marks.

Escalona’s sister Marly said that her brother was also a barber and came to the U.S. to find better lives.

Marly spoke in Spanish, “My brother is a 25-year-old guy who dreams like all Venezuelans.” “He really enjoys cutting hair. After finishing secondary school, he learned how to be a barber and opened his own business in Venezuela. But things got hard in Venezuela, so he left to find a better life elsewhere.

When ABC News asked about the child, the Office of Refugee Resettlement in the Department of Health and Human Services, which is in charge of the 2-year-old, told them to ask DHS.

The mother told ABC News that she doesn’t know how to get her daughter back or who to call.

Inchiarte said, “I wouldn’t wish this on any mother.”