US EditionICE detains four children from Minnesota school district, including 5-year-old: Report
- During a Jan. 20, 2026 operation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained Liam Conejo Ramos, 5-year-old boy, and his father Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias in the Columbia Heights, Minneapolis area.
- DHS and ICE said the operation targeted Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, who fled on foot abandoning his child, while Prokosh Law LLC and family lawyers dispute the 'illegal alien' label.
- Photograph and video released by school officials show Liam Conejo Ramos in an oversized bunny hat and winter coat, escorted by masked federal agents while an officer held his Spider-Man backpack and bystanders screamed as he was led to a blacked-out vehicle.
- They were moved more than 1,300 miles to the South Texas Family Residential Center, Dilley, Texas, and Justice Department records show both have pending immigration court cases, prompting protests and fundraising efforts.
- Superintendent Zena Stenvik questioned why a five-year-old was detained and described the scene as heartbreaking, while Sergio Amezcua, pastor, said `ICE agents were trying to use the baby for her to come out of her house`.
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Rex Huppke: ICE detained a 5-year-old child. There is no justifying this.
When President Donald Trump promised Americans a new Golden Age, I didn’t expect it would involve low-rent-mall-cop Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents nabbing angel-faced 5-year-old children off the streets of Midwestern cities and using them as bait.
ICE claims detained 5-year-old was abandoned by father, Minnesota school officials say he was ‘bait’
After weeks of minimal public communication, federal officials held their third news conference in a week on Friday, the latest in a series of attempts to elevate their own narrative of the enforcement crackdown in Minnesota.
Fact check: Is the 5-year-old Minnesota boy detained by ICE being held in an El Paso facility?
No. Liam Conejo Ramos, 5, and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, are not being held at an ICE detention center in El Paso, the family’s lawyer said during a news conference Jan. 22, 2026. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Online Detainee locator confirms Conejo Arias is at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. It does not list minors. The two were detained by ICE in Minnesota on Jan. 20, 2026, as they were retu…
Bovino Defends 5-Year-Old’s Detention: ICE ‘Experts’ on Kids
Greg Bovino defended ICE detaining a 5-year-old in Minneapolis, insisting agents are ‘experts in dealing with children.’ The Border Patrol chief said Liam Ramos is with his dad in a Texas detention facility and ‘it doesn’t get any better than that.”
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