5-Year-Old Detained by US Federal Officers, School Official Calls it 'Bait'

• A 5-year-old boy, Liam Conejo Ramos, was detained by US federal agents along with his father in Minnesota and taken to a detention facility in Texas.
• Columbia Heights Public Schools Superintendent Zena Stenvik stated that officers used the boy as 'bait' by asking him to knock on his door to check for others inside.
• The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin clarified that ICE was targeting the boy's father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, an Ecuadorian national in the US illegally, and denied targeting the child.
• The family has an active asylum case and has not been ordered to leave the country, according to their lawyer, Marc Prokosch, who called the detention 'cruelty'.
• Liam is the fourth student from Columbia Heights Public Schools to be detained by immigration officers recently, leading to a significant drop in school attendance.

Why It Matters: A 5-year-old boy was detained by US federal agents with his father, sparking controversy over tactics and immigration policies.