US EditionICE detains four children from Minnesota school district, including 5-year-old: Report
Four Columbia Heights students, including a 5-year-old, were detained by ICE during a targeted operation amid a surge that arrested 3,000 offenders in Minnesota, officials said.
- On January 20, 2026, federal agents detained 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, transporting them to a Texas immigration detention facility.
- The detentions occurred amid Operation Metro Surge, a DHS-led enforcement effort that began in December in Minnesota, deploying about 3,000 federal agents to the Twin Cities to target immigration violations.
- School officials say masked federal agents removed the 5-year-old from the still-running family car and directed him to knock on the front door, while refusing custody to an adult resident outside the home.
- District leaders said nearly one-third of students have stayed home in recent weeks out of fear, while immigration attorney Marc Prokosch said the family has an active asylum case with no deportation order and is exploring a possible habeas corpus petition in Texas.
- DHS responded that `ICE did NOT target a child` and said one officer stayed with the boy for safety, while civil-rights advocates and local officials called for scrutiny amid protests in Minneapolis.
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A Minnesota school superintendent says immigration agents didn't just detain one of her students—they made the 5-year-old knock on his own front door to help them find more people. Columbia Heights Superintendent Zena Stenvik said Wednesday that masked federal agents stopped Liam Conejo Ramos in his driveway Tuesday as...
US ICE Agents Detains Four Minnesota Children Including a Five-Year-Old, Says School Officials
Liam and his father were legally in the U.S. as asylum applicants and were transferred to a facility in Texas. Witnesses noted that ICE tried to use Liam to lure his mother out, which raised serious concerns.
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