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Sam Levin

ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials

child wearing plaid shirt and blue stands in front of car
Liam Ramos, five, detained by ICE in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, outside of his home on Tuesday. Photograph: Courtesy of Columbia Heights Public Schools

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained a five-year-old Minnesota boy on Tuesday as he returned home from school and transported him and his father to a Texas detention center, according to school officials.

Liam Ramos, a preschooler, and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway, the superintendent of the school district in Columbia Heights, a Minneapolis suburb, said at a press conference on Wednesday. Liam, who had recently turned five, is one of four children in the school district who have been detained by federal immigration agents during the Trump administration’s enforcement surge in the region over the last two weeks, the district said.

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