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City in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States
was photographed standing next to in , and school officials say he and his father were taken into federal custody as they returned from preschool and later transported to . Local school leaders and th...
Multiple local and national news outlets report that agents detained a 5-year-old boy in , and school and district officials have alleged the child was “” to draw other family members out of a home . ...
Reporting on a January 2026 series of arrests shows multiple credible outlets quoting school officials and witnesses who say agents detained children and in at least one case attempted to use a five‑y...
Public records and multiple news investigations establish that Ilhan Omar legally married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 and that a Hennepin County marriage certificate exists showing that marriage . Rep...
Data from city, federal and independent analysts show violent crime in Washington, D.C., fell sharply through 2024–mid‑2025 (U.S. Attorney: violent crime down 35% in 2024) even as the Trump administra...
Reporting confirms that detained a five‑year‑old boy, , in , alongside his father during a targeted operation, but none of the available news reports mention the child carrying or being stopped becaus...
, identified as , and his father as they returned home in the ; school officials and the family’s lawyer say both were flown to a , while and spokespeople have pushed back saying the agency did not “t...
and publicly say the boy’s father fled on foot and “abandoned” his 5‑year‑old during a in , a claim repeated by and in agency statements . Local school officials, witnesses and the family’s lawyer say...
, identified in multiple news reports as , was detained by in , on 20 January 2026 and transported with his father to a center, according to school officials, local authorities and several national ou...
identified as was detained by on January 20 in , alongside his father, and both were later transported to a detention facility in Texas, according to school officials and multiple news reports . Local...
student, identified in school-released photos as , was detained alongside his father by agents in and later moved to a in , a sequence the school district and the family’s lawyer say has been part of ...
There is no credible reporting that agents stopped a 12‑year‑old boy in and asked him for “papers.” The widely reported incidents in the Minneapolis area concern a 5‑year‑old preschooler, , who was de...
There is no authoritative, up-to-the-minute national tally in the provided reporting for the “”; detailed federal datasets exist but are not organized in the sources here to produce a single nationwid...
maintains policy guidance saying it does not routinely detain unaccompanied children and seeks to minimize disruption to parental rights when arresting adults, codified in Detention Management materia...
, identified as , was taken into custody with his father by in , and transported to a family detention center in , according to school officials and multiple news outlets . Federal officials have disp...
Public documentation of the centers on school-district statements, local news reporting, a bystander photograph, lawyers’ statements and press-conference testimony by Columbia Heights officials; indep...
was detained alongside his father by in , after they arrived home from preschool, according to local school officials and multiple news outlets . The incident has sparked a fierce dispute between scho...
publicly condemned recent actions in their district, saying the operations have “” the community, traumatised students and accusing agents of using a 5‑year‑old as “bait” while calling for accountabil...
identified as was detained by federal immigration officers in the suburb of during an enforcement operation and was taken into custody along with his father, according to multiple school officials, th...
boy, identified as , was taken into custody alongside his father during an enforcement operation in on Jan. 20, 2026 — images circulated showing agents standing next to the child — and officials say t...