Ben Shapiro

Stenvik, the district superintendent, said in a statement that another adult who lived in the family's home had begged to care for Liam, but federal agents refused to allow it.

Well, presumably one of the reasons why they had refused to simply allow an adult staying in the home to take care of the boy is they don't know who the adult is.

In 2024, there was a report regarding the Biden administration that found that from 2019 to 2023, more than 32,000 unaccompanied migrant children failed to appear for their immigration court hearings.

In fact, they lost track of tens of thousands of migrant children, some of whom were reunited with families, some of whom they really don't have an idea.

And so, yeah, they might not be so hot on the idea of just dropping the five-year-old with an adult who lives in the home.

They don't know who the adult is.

According to Tricia McLaughlin, the agents had tried to get Liam's mother to take the boy, but she had apparently refused.

McLaughlin said that Conejo Arroyos told federal agents he wanted Liam to stay with him.

Ms.

Granlund said Liam's father was yelling at adults inside the home, please do not open the door, presumably because of fears the agents would apprehend other people who are in the home and in the country illegally.

Now, again, this has raised hackles because there is widespread debate over what sort of warrant is necessary, an administrative warrant or a judge-assigned warrant, in order to enter a home where there's probable cause to believe illegal immigrants are residing.

We'll get to that legal issue in a moment.

School officials had previously accused immigration agents of making the child knock on the door of his home as bait so they could apprehend others, something that immigration officials denied.

So again, I cannot imagine that that is actually the case, that they just took a five-year-old and they said, we need you to knock on the door and call for mommy in order to get into the house to go get illegal immigrants.

In order to detain Liam against his will, agents would need probable cause to believe he was in the country unlawfully, but they are allowed to keep the child with an arrested parent if the parent requests it.

Well, Vice President J.D.

Vance was visiting at Minneapolis on Thursday.

And here's what he had to say.

Obviously, the vice president is obviously 100% right about all of this.

I mean, the fact of the matter is that we have had a serious problem on our hands since there was an agreement.