Four Columbia Heights students have been detained by federal agents in recent weeks, including a five-year-old whose school district says was used to draw family members from home.
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ICE has sparked condemnation after reports that a five-year-old boy had been detained in Minnesota and used as 'bait'. The Columbia Heights Public School District has said four of its students have been detained by federal agents in four separate incidents over the past two weeks.
District officials confirmed that one of the children is a five-year-old boy who attends an elementary school in the area and was allegedly used to
draw relatives out of their home. “Why detain a 5-year-old? You can’t tell me that this child is going to be classified as a violent criminal,” Zena Stenvik, the Columbia Heights superintendent, told reporters Wednesday.
Stenvik said masked agents stopped five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in his driveway on Tuesday as he arrived home from school with his father. It comes after
an ICE agent uttered a sickening 2-word slur as a woman was shot in the face.(Note: apparent reference to Good shooting and “f***ing b***ch”)
Stenvik said: “Another adult living in the home was outside and begged the agents to let him take care of the small child, and was refused.”
“Instead,” she said, “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.” Agents later placed both the child and his father into a vehicle and transported them to Texas.
Stenvik said Liam’s family has an “active asylum case” and no deportation orders. “I have viewed the legal paperwork with my own eyes,” Stenvik said.
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