"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."
"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."
ICE detained five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father at their driveway and transported them to a Texas detention center. The detentions occurred after the boy returned from school. The superintendent found the father's car running and both apprehended. An agent removed Liam, led him to the front door, and told him to knock to check for others, effectively using the child as bait. Another adult offered to care for Liam but was denied; the older brother later found them missing. The family has an active asylum case and entered at a port of entry; Liam is one of four district children detained during an enforcement surge.
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