"By the evening, a federal judge had ordered the girl be released by 9.30pm. But federal officials instead put both of them on a plane heading to a Texas detention center. Irina Vaynerman, one of the family's lawyers, told the Guardian late Friday afternoon that immigration officials had since flown both of them back to Minnesota and released the two-year-old into the custody of her mother."
"The officers did not have a warrant, the attorney said. One agent then allegedly broke the glass window of the father's car while the girl was inside. The mother was by the door and stepped inside the house as the agents approached, Kelley wrote. The agents refused to allow the father to bring his daughter to the mother or other family members waiting terrified inside the home."
Federal immigration agents detained a two-year-old girl and her father in Minneapolis as they returned home and transported them to a Texas detention center despite a judge ordering the child released by 9:30pm. Immigration officials later flew both back to Minnesota and released the toddler into her mother's custody, while the father remains detained in Minnesota. Agents entered the backyard and driveway without a warrant, allegedly broke the father's car window while the child was inside, and refused to allow family members to receive the child. The detention followed a recent ICE arrest of a five-year-old that prompted international backlash and scrutiny of aggressive enforcement. Lawyers described frantic efforts to secure the child's release and reunification with her mother.
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