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It was the lead on Drudge Report.
There was a picture of this little boy wearing what appeared to be a Disney hat wearing
And again, the idea was that he was used as bait according to the Daily Mirror.
The pre-gindergarten pupil, a kid named Liam Conejo Ramos, was pictured in a photo released by the school system standing next to a vehicle with an adult's hand on his backpack.
His father is not in sight.
Zina Stenvik, the superintendent of schools in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, asked at a news conference why detain a five-year-old.
However, that is not actually what happened, as you could have predicted.
According to the New York Times, again, they bury this further down in the story, the boy and his father were taken to Dilley, Texas, outside San Antonio, where they are being held at an immigration detention center, according to Mark Prokosh, a lawyer working with the family.
The boy and his father came to the United States from Ecuador in 2024.
Each has an active asylum claim.
The image of the child in custody prompted an outcry.
But what exactly happened?
Well, again, according to Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, when the agents sought to detain the father, he fled on foot and he left Liam behind in the vehicle.
which is a bit of a different story as it turns out.
If you're detained alongside your child and you take off and your kid is five, well, that might say something about your parenting style to say the very least.
I have four children.
One of them is five years old.
The insanity of being detained alongside my five-year-old daughter and just taking off is beyond measure.
That is crazy.
Apparently, Ms.