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BREAKING — ICE pulled over a Florida family out buying school shoes — then arrested BOTH parents as their five children cried in the car. The Domingo family had just left church. Wendy, 18, was driving with her mom, dad and four younger siblings in the car when a vehicle behind them signaled for her to pull over. Wendy says she asked why she had been stopped, and an agent told her she had done nothing wrong. But after checking the license plate, she says he told her it was associated with a non-citizen and ordered both of her parents out of the car. Her four younger siblings, ages 16, 14, 11 and 3, were still inside. The children began crying as Maria and Abraham Domingo stood outside with agents. Before their parents were taken away, the kids got out and hugged them goodbye. One of the boys sobbed in the back seat as Wendy watched agents take her mom and dad into custody. Wendy had turned 18 the night before. She had been an adult for ONE DAY. Now she was suddenly responsible for four younger siblings without their parents at home. Afterward, Wendy kept thinking about why the whole family had gone out together that day. They were headed to buy new shoes for the kids before school started. Why, she wondered, hadn’t her dad just sent her to take the kids shopping? Wendy graduated high school this spring. She works at the front desk of a hotel and had received financial aid to attend Palm Beach State College, where she planned to study to become an ultrasound technician. Now she says she needs to work two jobs to help support her siblings and won’t have time for college classes. She was also just starting to get closer to her dad. Wendy says they hadn’t always had an easy relationship, but over the past year things had finally started getting better. “We were finally getting along,” she said. Maria and Abraham had lived in the United States for 20 years. They had gone out as a family to buy school shoes. Five children came home without their parents. If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here. From the comments — Edwina Rogers Ocasio — If here for 20 years they had 20 years to gain citizenship. Why didn’t they do it? Linda Felske Umbarger — I'm a legal immigrant. I did mountains of paperwork, a physical, interviews and background checks. I waited in my home country while my application was being processed. This is the way it is supposed to be done. It really wasn't difficult. Immigration told me what to do every step of the way. The important thing was not to cross the border illegally. Immigration really doesn't like that and can ruin your chances of being successful Everyone should have to do what I did. It didn't hurt me. It made me a better person. I am now a very proud citizen of this great country. I don't think illegal immigrants want to wait. People want instant gratification. They want to cross the border illegally and reap the benefits after doing nothing legally. As time goes by they feel a sense of entitlement. They think, We'll get legal after the fact. Sorry it does not work that way. Could I have come illegally, yes easily. No one would know. The problem is I would know and I have a conscious. We are a country of laws and laws must be followed. I did a lot of work for my immigration but it was an incredible experience. Most legal immigrants like me believe in ICE and support them as I do.