ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy as he came home, say school officials

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/ice-arrests-five-year-old-boy-minnesota

37 Comments

  1. Remember in the first Trump administration, when they separated families at the border and paraded children in front of judges in sham hearings and made the kids sign paperwork, even though the kids could barely read and write?

    77 fucking million of us wanted that again.

  2. brain_overclocked on

    >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.

    >Liam and his father had just arrived home when they were detained, according to Zena Stenvik, the superintendent, who said she drove to the home when she learned of the detentions.

    >When she arrived, Stenvik said the father’s car was still running and the father and son had already been apprehended. An agent had taken Liam out of the car, led the boy to his front door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in, “in order to see if anyone else was home – essentially using a five-year-old as bait”, the superintendent said in a statement.

    >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.

    Marc Prokosch, an attorney representing the family, said the family has an active asylum case and shared paperwork showing the father and son had arrived to the US at a port of entry, meaning an official crossing point.

    >**“The family did everything they were supposed to in accordance with how the rules have been set out,” he said. “They did not come here illegally. They are not criminals.”** He said there was no order of deportation against them and he believes the father and son have remained together in detention.

  3. Moist_Bowler8926 on

    “The family did everything they were supposed to in accordance with how the rules have been set out,” he said. “They did not come here illegally. They are not criminals.”

    ICE doesn’t care if you came legally or not, you are not the correct color therefore you gotta go. At what point do we stop calling them ICE and just call them terrorists?

  4. I’m so sick of seeing these terrorist.

    I’m sick of the dictator and his fascist regime destroying our country.

    Most of all I’m sick of every single person who will speak about how atrocious things are becoming but won’t do or say more because of the inherent fear of losing their comforts and taking for granted the rights that many are being stripped of.

    This is not going to just end because you protest or you contact your representatives. They will continue to escalate every day and they will find a justification for declaring martial law until they have the control necessary to forgo fair elections.

    STOP believing there is no other course of action.

    STOP expecting others to stand so you don’t have to.

    STOP letting evil and hate control the future of the US

  5. Scum. Absolute scum. I just hope he is with his father right now too yet I somehow doubt that. These people are monsters.

  6. This article reports the father and son were not here illegally. Why were they flown to Texas in that case? And are they even truly detained together, as claimed? Last time Trump was in power they lost thousands of kids.

  7. rockandrollzomby on

    I know this is what these scumbags want, but this one just wrecked me. I’m literally sobbing over this. it’s so fucking wrong. We have to be better than this as a nation.

  8. These crimes against humanity are being perpetrated in our names and with our tax money. What are we supposed to do? I’ve called my reps, I’ve gone to protests, I’ve written to churches to ask them to use their positions to speak out. None of it has done a damn thing. I really need to know what else to do. What can we do?

  9. Well if you look at it from their perspective, this was just a juvenile untermensch and not a 5 year child. So it is perfectly acceptable to treat him like this.

    You need to adjust your morality spectrum from normal to Nazi when you read the news today.

  10. That’s heartbreaking! The kid is five *and* the family has been following the immigration procedures.

  11. PracticalChipmunk789 on

    “The worst of the worst.” Somehow, a little child with a Spiderman backpack meets that criteria???

  12. irradiatedcitizen on

    “Terrible things are happening outside… poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” 

    Anne Frank (Jan 13, 1943)

  13. This is fucking disgusting. Hell isn’t hot enough for the disgusting scum who support this.

  14. Howdthecatdothat on

    NO. This cannot be the America that we live in. Look at that CHILD’S face! In No story are the masked men with guns the good guys. SHAME. SHAME. SHAME.

  15. > Stenvik said school leaders were working to aid families impacted by ICE. “Our role is to educate children during the school day. But now we’re trying to help people navigate this legal system.” She added: “Our main priority is to keep children safe. They’re children. They are not violent criminals. They are little kids.”

    Instead of focusing on their jobs, our teachers are now being forced to navigate immigration issues while their students are being kidnapped. This is how you know you live in a fascist state.

  16. soadisnotforbath on

    I’m so disgusted by my country, I hope these agents never know a moment of peace.

  17. Their goal is to create fear. They are terrorists in the truest sense of the word. They desire to terrify you into compliance. They are afraid you will not obey. When you don’t obey, they lose their power.  

  18. A five year old is now a text book definition of a violent hardened criminal who needs to feel the wrath of ICE? Why? He’s just a child for crying out loud?!

    Where’s the humanity at this point since a normal human with a morsel of it wouldn’t be doing what these ICE agents are doing?

  19. Yeesh, and to think I’ve seen another sub doubt it’s legitimacy because it would be “all over the news”.

    I’ve also seen remarks about the parents being “irresponsible”

  20. AllergiesYearRound on

    I can’t stop crying. He’s so little. How could anyone do this and support this?!!

  21. I keep seeing images that anger me terribly. Thanks for getting that dangerous “criminal” off the streets, you heartless, traitorous, malicious, maladjusted pussies.

    Big men shooting women and arresting children, hiding behind a badge that you sully with your touch. May they rarely sleep and never well.

  22. LargeCondition5315 on

    These POS cowards are known to lose children and nobody is being investigated over this. WTF