ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials

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Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained a five-year-old Minnesota boy on Tuesday as he returned home from school and transported him and his father to a Texas detention center, according to school officials.

Liam Ramos, a preschooler, and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway, the superintendent of the school district in Columbia Heights, a Minneapolis suburb, said at a press conference on Wednesday. Liam, who had recently turned five, is one of four children in the school district who have been detained by federal immigration agents during the Trump administration’s enforcement surge in the region over the last two weeks, the district said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/ice-arrests-five-year-old-boy-minnesota

[Irish_Dem]

1. Those 4 year old gang members can be quite dangerous.

I feel so much safer now.

[Clouds Passing]

2. Stealing children for their sexual abuse ring?

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3. Misleading.

It was the boy AND his father. This is a 'clickbait' title.

The media is never going to be take seriously if they keep doing this.

[Beaverhausen]

5. Maybe you missed this part of the story

Stenvik said another adult living in the home was outside during the encounter and had pleaded to take care of Liam so the boy could avoid detention, but was denied. Liam’s older brother, a middle schooler, came home 20 minutes later to find his father and brother missing, Stenvik said. Two school principals from the district also arrived at the home to offer support.


So there was no need to send that child to Texas.

None.

What is wrong with you?

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4. Asylum applicants.

Who are allowed to be in the US until their cases are adjudicated.