This IS getting out of hand…..
Using 5 year olds as ‘Bait’ ?
And shipped him from Minnesota off to Texas
Federal agents in Minnesota grabbed a 5-year-old as he returned home from school and took him to a facility in Texas, local officials and a family lawyer said.
Liam Conejo Ramos is the fourth student from the Columbia Heights School District, just north of Minneapolis, to have been swept up by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants, District Superintendent Zena Stenvik said at a press conference on Wednesday.
Stenvik claimed Liam was detained in his family’s driveway after being driven home by his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, whom the Department of Homeland Security said was the subject of a “targeted” ICE operation on Tuesday and was also detained.
DHS confirmed Thursday that both father and son are being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Dilley, Texas.
The superintendent said ICE officers used the preschooler to draw other family members out of their home.
According to Minnesota Public Radio, Liam was told to knock on the door and ask to be let in so immigration officials could see if anyone else was inside.
An adult who was home at the time, realizing that Liam had been detained, “begged the agents to let them take care of the small child, but was refused,” Stenvik said.
Stenvik accused ICE of “essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.”
“Why detain a 5-year-old? You can’t tell me that this child is going to be classified as a violent criminal,” Stenvik said….
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The school district said Liam’s family has an active asylum case and had not been issued a deportation order.
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In response, he pushed the emerging Trump administration narrative about targeting Liam’s “illegal alien father.”
Vance said: “So the story is that ‘ICE detained a 5-year-old.’ Well, what are they supposed to do? Are they supposed to let a 5-year-old child freeze to death?”
The other children detained in the Minnesota school district include a 10-year-old and a 17-year-old, who were both taken into custody alongside a parent…
image….Liam Conejo Ramos, 5, and his father were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota.
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