Democrats condemn ICE after five-year-old detained with father in US raid

Liam Ramos, of Minnesota, was detained with his father and flown to Texas, prompting Democrats to accuse ICE of cruelty

• ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home

Democratic lawmakers are lashing out at Immigration and Customs Enforcement after agents detained a five-year-old Minnesota boy with his father and transported them to Texas, with one congressman calling for the agency to be disbanded.

was taken into custody on Tuesday as he and his father arrived home from school in Columbia Heights, a Minneapolis suburb. According to school officials, an ICE agent used the child to knock on the family’s front door to determine if anyone else was inside before detaining both father and son.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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