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Vice President JD Vance has defended ICE’s detention of a five-year-old boy in Minnesota, igniting fresh controversy amid nationwide backlash over aggressive immigration enforcement.
School officials say the preschooler, Liam Conejo Ramos, was taken by agents with his father near their home after school, a move critics describe as traumatising and unnecessary.
Speaking in Minneapolis, Vance rejected outrage over the incident, arguing the child’s father fled from authorities and that agents had little choice but to keep the boy with them for safety.
“What are they supposed to do?” he asked, saying parenthood shouldn’t grant immunity from law enforcement.
The episode has intensified scrutiny of the Trump administration’s immigration tactics.
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