Image: the detainment of 5-year-old Liam Ramos. Source: The Guardian.
This page is part of a resource collection Tracking ICE During the Second Trump Administration.
Resources
Physicians for Human Rights: ICE Tactics and Deportation Fears Limit Access to Health Care for Children of Immigrants.
ProPublica: “I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility.
Melissa Ryan: How to talk to our kids about ICE and prepare our families.
The Detainment of Liam Ramos: January, 2026
January 21. Sam Levin: ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials.
January 22. Robert Tate: What images of a detained five-year-old boy reveal about Trump’s draconian ICE crackdown.
January 23. Roque Planas: Why the Trump administration is detaining immigrant children – and what happens to them next: The detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, age five, marks the turbocharging of a policy discontinued five years ago.
January 23. Elizabeth Shockman & Cait Kelley: Witnesses say they begged ICE agents not to detain Minnesota 5-year-old after father’s arrest.
January 24. David Martin Davies: Protest breaks out at Dilley immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos.
February 1. Coral Murphy Marcos: Five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father released from Texas detention center.
February 9. Regina Medina: ‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer.
News: 2026
January 12. WBOC: Teen dies of cancer days after mother arrested by ICE: ‘She’s never gonna see him.’
January 15. Kilat Fitzgerald: ICE shooting: Children hospitalized after flash bang, tear gas hits van.
January 22. Meg Anderson: The ICE surge is fueling fear and anxiety among Twin Cities children.
January 23. Sam Levin: US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words.’
January 24. Maanvi Singh: ICE raids turn life into a daily terror for Minneapolis schoolkids: ‘This is a generational trauma.’
January 27. Claudia Mendoza & Tiago Rogero: Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown: Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative.
January 28. Dylan Tusinski: ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest. Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
January 31. Jennifer Bendery: ICE Is Circling Minnesota Schools, Looking For Children To Take. Liam Ramos, 5, isn’t the only child in detention. Teachers and parents describe kids being hunted by federal agents.
February 2. Marisa Kabas: What it’s like to see ICE tear gas kids: Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack.
February 2. Juliana Lightsey: Hundreds of Kids, Including Infants, Are Still at the ICE Facility That Released Liam Ramos. Now There’s a Measles Outbreak.
February 3. Sarah Jeong: How to tear gas children:After ICE gassed a family-friendly protest in broad daylight, Portland is up in arms.
February 4. Sam Levin: Minnesota girl, 10, released from ICE custody after a month in detention: Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano and her mother released from Texas facility to head back home to reunite with her father.
February 4. Corina Knoll: What the Crackdown Has Done to Minneapolis Children.
February 6. Mike Hixenbaugh & Daniella Silva: Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school.
ProPublica. February 9: ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
February 10. Melissa Whitler: The kids are not alright — ICE threatens children’s short-term health, long-term prospects.
February 13. Mike Hixenbaugh: ‘Even in Russia, they don’t treat children like this’: A family’s nightmare in ICE detention.A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.
News: 2025
June 9. Howard Blume: LAUSD will deploy school police to set up safe zones around campuses, graduations amid ICE raids
July 15. Hayley Miller: Baseball coach says ICE agents questioned kids at practice: ‘This can happen to anybody.’
July 20. Laura Rodríguez Presa: ICE took her mother. Now, a 6-year-old is left without a guardian or legal path back to reunite in Honduras.
July 21. Zach Helfand: ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field.
August 20. Luis Ferré-Sadurní: Deportation of 6-Year-Old Puts Spotlight on ICE’s Detention of Families.
August 28. Marina Dunbar: ‘Nightmare’: family in shock after Ice moves LA teen out of state without their knowledge.
September 2. Valerie Gonzalez: ICE is showing up to interview parents hoping to reunite with their children who entered US alone.
October 2. Janelle Griffith: ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls.
October 6. South Side Weekly: Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children: Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
October 15. Marisa Kabas: ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.
October 22. Subini Annamma and David Stovall: The Trump administration is targeting children of color.
October 26. Charles Thrush: Feds Tear Gas Northwest Side Street, Disrupting Halloween Parade For Kids.
November 4. Alexandria Jacobson: Horror of migrant kids ripped from parents by first Trump admin exposed in new book.
November 5. Maya Yang: Armed ICE agents in Chicago drag daycare worker out of facility and arrest her: Videos show ICE agents chasing woman into daycare and appearing to slam her face against glass doors.
November 5. Natasha Korecki: Chicago residents say immigration enforcement is leading to children getting tear-gassed.
November 7. Marina Dunbar: ICE facing fierce backlash after video apparently shows unconscious man clutching child during arrest.
November 11. Andrew Jeong: ICE accused of pepper-spraying 1-year-old girl and her dad near Chicago.
November 23. Marina Dunbar: ICE detained teenaged US citizen during school lunch break.
November 24. ProPublica: ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
December 4. Ana Ley & Hamed Aleaziz: ICE Separates Boy, 6, From Father During Effort to Deport Them to China.
December 7. Heidi Wigdahl: Ring camera captures Burnsville ICE raid that leaves 7-year-old without parents, according to family.