"According to the Columbia Heights Public School District in Minnesota, federal agents have detained four students that attend their schools four separate times over the course of two weeks. Conejo was one of them, and he was used as "bait" to draw family members out of their home for them to be arrested and detained. Conejo was apprehended in his driveway when he returned home from school with his father."
""the agent took the child out of the still-running car, led him to the door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a 5-year-old as bait." Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents then took the father and child away to ICE's South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas."
The image of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos being detained outside his house after returning from school has gone viral. Wearing a blue fuzzy hat and a Spiderman backpack half his size, he faced a black truck while a white hand held his backpack. Federal agents detained four Columbia Heights students in four separate incidents over two weeks, and Liam was reportedly used as bait to draw family members out for arrest. ICE agents then transported the father and child to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas; a judge issued a stay on their deportation order, and family members and lawyers described the child as depressed, sick, and not eating.
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