Everything that could possibly go wrong went wrong in one of the latest detention attempts by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A man in Massachusetts who was the target of an ICE raid was separated from his 5-year-old daughter as he made his way into his house, and ICE agents allegedly tried to use his daughter as “bait” to lure him out.
To make matters all the more dicey, his daughter is US-born and has autism. Just recently, Donald Trump was touting new discoveries about how he had not only uncovered the cause of autism but, in one fell swoop, also found a cure for it. So you can imagine how angry social media users were when the story broke that legal authorities were using an autistic child in one of their raids. One X user declared that cruelty is ICE’s goal and not just callousness. Another user called the ordeal a “hostage situation.”
