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Bovino on detained 5-year-old boy: ‘We are experts with children’
Border Patrol insists the 5-year-old was not separated from his father and claims agents are trained in child care amid criticism of immigration enforcement tactics.
- Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large for U.S. Border Patrol, defended detaining Liam Conejo Ramos, 5-year-old child, and Liam's father after their Minneapolis area arrest earlier this week.
- Explaining the rationale, Border Patrol argued that Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Border Patrol provide superior care by keeping children with parents rather than placing them in social-services custody, with Gregory Bovino challenging other agencies to show better care.
- District Superintendent Zena Stenvik alleged ICE stopped the boy in his driveway, refused an adult household member's plea to care for him, and detained a 10-year-old and a 17-year-old in the same school district Wednesday.
- Public and political reaction included Vice President JD Vance defending ICE's handling of the preschooler during a Thursday press conference in Minnesota, while reporters highlighted that U.S. authorities do not detain American children similarly, prompting media scrutiny.
- Senior Border Patrol rhetoric focused on rhetorical defense framing by agency officials who asked if leaving a young child to face harm is acceptable, shaping public debate and ethical scrutiny.
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Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota
Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.
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