Kamala Harris Expresses Outrage Over ICE Detaining 5 Year Old

WASHINGTON, DC-Former US Vice President Kamala Harris has condemned the detention of a five-year-old boy along with his father by US immigration authorities, making him the fourth student to be detained in a suburban Minneapolis school district in recent days, local media reported on January 23.

Harris posted, “Liam Ramos is just a baby. He should be at home with his family, not used as bait by ICE and held in a Texas detention center. I am outraged, and you should be too.”

According to Marc Prokosch, a lawyer working with the family, the boy and his father were taken to Dilley, Texas, where they have been held at an immigration detention center. He said that the boy and his father came to the US from Ecuador in 2024 and both of them have an active asylum claim.

While addressing a press conference on January 22, Prokosch said, “These are not illegal aliens. They came legally and are pursuing a legal pathway.”

A photo released by the school system shows five-year-old kid, Liam Conejo Ramos, standing next to a vehicle with an adult’s hand on his backpack. School district officials stated that the five-year-old boy and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, had just reached home when immigration officials apprehended them.

US Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin stated that the father fled on foot and left Liam behind in the vehicle when the agents wanted to arrest the former. McLaughlin claimed that agents had tried to get Liam’s mother to keep the boy, however, she had “refused” to take him. McLaughlin said Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias told federal agents that he wanted Liam to live with him. (IANS)