"Immigration and Customs Enforcement is obviously and technically an immigration enforcement agency. But when you look at what's happening in Minnesota and across the country, this doesn't look like immigration enforcement. Can I go check a pulse? This is a school. Immigration enforcement is largely an administrative issue. And so why do we have these paramilitaries on the streets taking children and using them as bait to get their parents?"
"That's essentially what happened in Columbia Heights, Minn., where a 5-year-old prekindergartner, Liam Conejo Ramos, and his father were taken and sent to a detention facility in Texas. They are legal immigrants. They have a valid asylum claim, but that doesn't matter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Why is it, in fact, the status of the people in question is irrelevant to ICE agents,"
Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates in ways that resemble paramilitary actions rather than routine administrative enforcement, including entering schools and seizing children. Agents in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, detained a five-year-old prekindergartner and his father and sent them to a Texas detention facility despite valid asylum claims and legal status. ICE appears to prioritize high daily removal numbers, driven by policy architects who set aggressive arrest targets. Reaching those targets requires uprooting families and communities instead of focusing on criminal offenders, producing constitutional and humanitarian concerns about warrants, community destruction, and the treatment of children.
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