ICE agents in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, detained five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father in their driveway as they returned home from school. School officials alleged that agents used the child as “bait” to lure other residents out of the home and reported that three other students in the district had recently been detained under similar circumstances. While the Department of Homeland Security stated the operation was a targeted arrest of the father, the family’s attorney maintained they were legally seeking asylum and had no deportation orders against them.
Date: January 22, 2026. Source: theguardian.com