Trump’s Immigration Police Keep Abducting Children
ICE’s arrest and detention of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in Minnesota last month sparked national outrage. The episode was just one among many instances of federal immigration agents abducting young children under the second Trump administration.

Under the second Trump administration, ICE abductions and detentions of young children have become disturbingly frequent, with 3,800 children — including at least 20 infants — estimated to have been detained as of December 2025.(Moisés Ávila / AFP via Getty Images)
On February 4, the Trump administration quietly filed a motion to end the asylum claims of one of the countless Minnesota residents being targeted by masked immigration agents throughout the state.
In this case, their mark is just five years old, one of thousands of children likely to have been abducted by adults with guns since President Donald Trump’s second term began.
Liam Conejo Ramos’s nightmare began on January 20, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents grabbed him from the driveway of his home in Columbia Heights, Minnesota. He and his father Adrian Conejo Arias were then flown more than 1,300 miles away to the notorious South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, where Liam developed a fever and cough, his father said. Thanks to a judge’s order for his release, the preschooler is back in Minnesota, but the Department of Homeland Security’s February 4 motion means he may not be able to stay for long. In addition to seeking to end Liam’s asylum, DHS has requested that the family’s deportation proceedings be expedited, a lawyer for the family said.