""If you touch her, we're going to have problems," he said in a video provided by the family. "Come here so I can see those IDs," an agent responded."
""How do you explain something like this to a 5-year-old? It's not easy, and sometimes I don't find the good words to talk with her," she said."
""That should never happen, and we've got many kids in the state who are not going to school right now. They're afraid," Gov. Maura Healey said about the case."
""I've got pediatricians talking about high anxiety rates among young kids right now whose parents have been involved in some of these detentions, and it's just heartbreaking.""
Edwards Hip Mejia's family said he was taking his 5-year-old daughter, who has autism, home from the hospital on Sept. 16 when he noticed he was being followed. The family said he pulled into the driveway and was able to get into the house, but alleges that federal agents tried to use the child as a bargaining chip to get him outside. Video provided by the family captures the father warning agents not to touch his daughter and an agent asking to see IDs. Mejia's wife said agents taunted him at the expense of the child. Governor Maura Healey reported children avoiding school and pediatricians noting high anxiety among young children whose parents faced detentions. A Department of Homeland Security official denied that agents used the child as bait.
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