ICE is directly complicit in baby Orlin’s death and should be held accountable and charged accordingly.

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Wendy Hernandez Reyes was running out of time to see her son.

She had been paralyzed by grief since learning of her child Orlin’s death on March 4. And she did not know how to bury him — he was in America, and she was in Honduras. A funeral home in Atlanta warned that because of Orlin’s injuries, autopsies and deterioration, a casket would have to be sealed this month.

Samuel Maldonado, a laborer who had been in the Honduran military and the estranged father of her sister’s three young children, had been charged with the boy’s murder after Orlin was put in his care following Wendy’s deportation.

The case has stirred outrage, prompted calls for a full accounting of ICE’s actions and shone a light on the sometimes dangerous situations children are left in when their parents are detained or deported.

On May 25, after Democratic lawmakers held an unofficial hearing that brought up the case, and following a story examining Orlin’s death in The Post, ICE agreed to let Hernandez return temporarily.

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