When President Donald Trump promised Americans a new Golden Age, I didn’t expect it would involve low-rent-mall-cop Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents nabbing angel-faced 5-year-old children off the streets of Midwestern cities and using them as bait.
But here we are, in the America that, I assume, Republicans wanted. If you haven’t seen pictures of little Liam Conejo Ramos, bundled against the winter cold in a blue bunny hat, a tiny backpack over his plaid coat, you have a moral obligation to find one and look at it closely.
Liam was nabbed Jan. 20 by masked ICE agents continuing their terror campaign in and around Minneapolis. The 5-year-old is a student at Valley View Elementary in Columbia Heights, just north of Minneapolis.
Columbia Heights Superintendent Zena Stenvik said masked agents descended on Liam and his father as they were returning to their home from the boy's school.
“Another adult living in the home was outside and begged the agents to let him take care of the small child, and was refused,” Stenvik said. “Instead, the agent took the child out of the still-running car, led him to the door, and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.”
