“It Was Never About Keeping America Safe”

The worst of the worst
Murderer
Drug dealer
Rapist
Here he is
The brown skin that makes
Bigots tremble
Here he is
The 4 year old
Stealing your jobs
Here he is
In all his illegality
A blue bunny hat
A friendly neighborhood Spiderman
On his back
And your insurrectionist
Slave catchers
To traffic him into
The very known abyss
Whose redacted files
Will never see the light of
Accountability
It was never about keeping america
Safe
It was always about
Genocide
Slavery
Blood lust
Hate

– Leslé Honoré

Writes Elizabeth Shockman of Minnesota Public Radio News:

The Columbia Heights Public School district says federal agents have detained four of its students in four separate incidents over the last two weeks. One child is a 5-year old boy who attends a district elementary school and was used as “bait” to draw family members out of their home.⁠ Agents took Liam Conejo Ramos and his dad and sent them to Texas.

⁠ “Why detain a 5-year-old? You can’t tell me that this child is going to be classified as a violent criminal,” Zena Stenvik, the Columbia Heights superintendent, told reporters Wednesday.

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UPDATES: Witnesses Say They Begged ICE Agents Not to Detain Minnesota 5-year-old After Father’s Arrest – Elizabeth Shockman and Cait Kelley (MPR News, January 23, 2026).
Witnesses Dispute DHS Claim That 5-Year-Old Was “Abandoned” Prior to ICE Detainment – Mara Klecker (Minnesota Star Tribune, January 23, 2026).
Immigrant Families Protest Inside Texas Facility Housing 5-Year-old Boy and Father Detained in Minnesota – Valerie Gonzalez and Berenice Garcia (The Texas Tribune, January 24, 2026).