Image: the detainment of 5-year-old Liam Ramos. Source: The Guardian.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.